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Archion
The German Protestant church archives' own portal. Subscription by the month; the only route to many Lutheran registers.
Last checked 2026-09-22. Tell us if this has changed.
The ground it holds
Record regions whose registers are filed here, and for which years.
- 1815–1871 Prussia — Grand Duchy of Posen
- 1871–1918 German Empire — Province of Posen
- 1525–1871 Duchy, then Kingdom, of Prussia
- 1871–1945 German Empire — Province of East Prussia
- 1945–2026 Russia in the north; Poland in the south; Lithuania at Memel — THE BIGGEST TRAP OF ALL, AND IT RUNS THE OTHER WAY. The population fled or was expelled and — unusually — MANY OF THE CHURCH REGISTERS WENT WEST WITH THEM. East Prussian Protestant registers are largely in Berlin and Leipzig, NOT in Kaliningrad. Looking for Königsberg records in Russia is the classic wasted year of German genealogy.
- 1637–1815 Swedish Pomerania in the west; Brandenburg-Prussia in the east — THE FORGOTTEN TRAP. Western Pomerania was SWEDISH from 1648 to 1815, so its administrative records of those years can be in Stockholm rather than Berlin or Szczecin — which almost nobody thinks to check.
- 1815–1871 Prussia — Province of Pomerania
- 1871–1919 German Empire
- 1920–1939 Germany; Danzig a Free City
- 1871–1918 German Empire — Reichsland Elsaß-Lothringen — THE TRAP. The registers do not move and the language does. From 1871 the same volume in the same building is written in German, names are Germanised — Jean becomes Johann, Mulhouse becomes Mülhausen — and the indexes a French-speaking researcher searches will not match. A family that never left the village appears to vanish in 1871 and reappear in 1918.
- 1742–1871 Prussia — Province of Silesia (Austrian Silesia stays Habsburg) — THE TRAP. Frederick took most of Silesia in 1742 and left a strip — Austrian Silesia, around Opava and Těšín — with the Habsburgs. Two record systems, two languages of administration and two present-day countries, for a province people still name as one place.
- 1871–1918 German Empire — Prussian Silesia
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