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Kleeberg

Kleeberg in Germany. 0 record volumes and who holds them.

Last changed 2026-10-06 · first mapped 2026-10-01 Follow what changes.

Comes out as a sheet for the reading room — what to ask for, who holds it, and every link written out in full.

This place

Where to begin

You know your family came from Kleeberg. Here is the order I would work in, cheapest and easiest first — and what to do when that runs out.

  1. Work out which country your year belongs to

    This is the step almost everybody skips, and it is the commonest reason a record that exists cannot be found. The ground did not move; the border did. A baptism here in one decade may sit in a different country's archive from one twenty years later.

    YearsWho governedWhose archive
    1526–1742 Habsburg Bohemian crown lands actapublica · porta-fontium · familysearch
    1742–1871 Prussia — Province of Silesia (Austrian Silesia stays Habsburg) szukajwarchiwach · archion · actapublica · familysearch
    1871–1918 German Empire — Prussian Silesia szukajwarchiwach · archion · agad · familysearch
    1918–1939 Divided — East Upper Silesia to Poland in 1922, the rest German; Těšín split with Czechoslovakia szukajwarchiwach · geneteka · actapublica
    1939–1945 German annexation of the whole arolsen · bundesarchiv
    1945–2026 Poland, and Czech Silesia in the south szukajwarchiwach · geneteka · actapublica · familysearch

    Do this: take the year you are looking for, find its row, and note the archive. That is the one to search — not the one the village is in today.

  2. The things that catch people out here

    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.

    1918–1939, Divided — East Upper Silesia to Poland in 1922, the rest German; Těšín split with Czechoslovakia. THE TRAP, again and worse. The 1921 plebiscite and the partition that followed cut Upper Silesia in two, and Těšín was cut a third way. Three archives now hold what one parish produced.

    1945–2026, Poland, and Czech Silesia in the south. THE TRAP that catches everyone. The German population was expelled and the place names changed wholesale — Breslau is Wrocław, Waldenburg is Wałbrzych, Gleiwitz is Gliwice. Records made in German before 1945 sit in Polish archives under Polish names. Search the German name for the record and the Polish name for the archive.

  3. Find the parish, because that is where the book was

    Before civil registration, the parish priest kept the register. A village without its own church was written into a neighbour's book.

    • Kirche Niederrengersdorf
    • Kirche Kunnersdorf
    • Grabmal (Weg nach Attendorf, 400 Meter vor Straße nach Wiesa; im Wald)
    • Kirche Ullersdorf

  4. When you run out — and you will

    Everything above is what this atlas knows. It is not everything there is. Nine places in ten on this map have never been surveyed by anybody, so a gap here is usually our silence rather than the record's absence.

    Do this: write to the archive named in the era table for your year, even if we hold nothing for it. Then tell us what you found — a gap somebody has personally closed is the most useful thing a stranger can give this map.

The archives named above: actapublica · porta-fontium · familysearch · szukajwarchiwach · archion · agad · geneteka · arolsen · bundesarchiv. What each one holds and why.

Whose archive this ground was

Kleeberg sits in Silesia. Which empire held it decides which archive holds its records — and for some of these years that is not the archive you would guess.

YearsWho held itWhose archive that means
1526–1742 Habsburg Bohemian crown lands Acta Publica · Porta fontium · FamilySearch

Catholic and Lutheran registers in Latin and German, kept by the parish.
1742–1871 Prussia — Province of Silesia (Austrian Silesia stays Habsburg) Szukaj w Archiwach · Archion · Acta Publica · FamilySearch

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 Szukaj w Archiwach · Archion · Archiwum Główne Akt Dawnych (AGAD) · FamilySearch

Standesamt civil registration from 1 October 1874, in German, alongside the church books.
1918–1939 Divided — East Upper Silesia to Poland in 1922, the rest German; Těšín split with Czechoslovakia Szukaj w Archiwach · Geneteka · Acta Publica

THE TRAP, again and worse. The 1921 plebiscite and the partition that followed cut Upper Silesia in two, and Těšín was cut a third way. Three archives now hold what one parish produced.
1939–1945 German annexation of the whole Arolsen Archives · Bundesarchiv

Auschwitz is in this region, in what the Germans had annexed as Ost-Oberschlesien. Arolsen and Yad Vashem hold the names.
1945–2026 Poland, and Czech Silesia in the south Szukaj w Archiwach · Geneteka · Acta Publica · FamilySearch

THE TRAP that catches everyone. The German population was expelled and the place names changed wholesale — Breslau is Wrocław, Waldenburg is Wałbrzych, Gleiwitz is Gliwice. Records made in German before 1945 sit in Polish archives under Polish names. Search the German name for the record and the Polish name for the archive.

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The ground worth walking

Within 25 km — 3 places · 6 parishes · 5 burial grounds. These neighbours hold 1 catalogued volume between them.

A register belongs to a parish, not to a village. A hamlet with no church of its own was written into the book of the church it walked to — and that book is catalogued under the other place's name. This is the ground to search before concluding a record does not exist.

Neighbours with volumes catalogued
Also within 25 km, nothing catalogued

Siekierczyn · Ves

Correctly placed and unread. A gap here is this atlas's silence, not the record's — the registers may well exist and nobody has walked them.

The nearest parishes

A church is a parish and a parish is where a register is kept — the register of a hamlet with no church of its own is kept at the church it walked to, so the distance is the useful part. Wikidata's coverage is very uneven: 34,612 churches in England against 105 in central Istria, so a short list here means thin data and not an empty landscape. Unchecked, and only inside a mapped record region.

Where the burials are

The other end of a parish: the register records the burial and the ground holds it, and a family that left no other trace very often left a stone. These are points on a map, not record collections — from Wikidata and OpenStreetMap, nobody here has visited one, and whether the burial register survives is a question for the parish or the municipality above. Grounds OpenStreetMap has not named are here too. They used to be left out, on the reasoning that a shape with no name is not a place anyone can ask about — which cost Senj its own graveyard, 2 km away and unnamed, while a named one 7 km off was all this page would show. Being unnamed is a fact about the map data, not about the ground. Only inside a mapped record region.

National sources for Germany, unverified

From Wikidata, CC0 — the national archive and the national library where the country has one. Nobody here has opened these. The link answered when it was asked and that is the whole of what this map knows about them. They are listed because a country with no named source at all is the worse answer: 199 of the 237 countries here had nothing but the worldwide services, which cover everywhere and therefore say nothing about anywhere.

The sources for Germany

National and regional sources that cover this ground whether or not anybody has walked it here — which makes them the answer, not the consolation, for a place with no volumes recorded on it. A country-wide body is listed whatever the distance; a provincial archive is a claim over its own province, so those are the nearest ones. 27 more cover Germany and are on the country page.

  • Arolsen Archives Nobody has walked this one yet Bad Arolsen, Germany
    The international centre on Nazi persecution: concentration camp records, forced labour and displaced-person files, searchable online. Worked by the Blažević archive against cards already held on disk. Not yet surveyed.
  • Arolsen Archives Images, free, no account Bad Arolsen, Germany
    The former International Tracing Service. Concentration camp, forced labour and displaced-persons records for some seventeen and a half million people, free and fully indexed.
  • Bundesarchiv A catalogue entry only — the paper is not photographed Koblenz, Germany
    The German Federal Archives. Civil and military administration of the Prussian provinces, the wartime records, and the card indexes of the expelled — much of it for ground that is no longer German.
  • Landeskirchliches Archiv, Dresden Nobody has walked this one yet DE — 87 km
    Landeskirchliches Archiv, Dresden — a German state or church archive. German civil registration began in 1876 and parish registers before it are largely with the Landeskirchliche Archive, so which of the two holds a record depends on its date. Harvested from Wikidata and its address opened; what is online and what it costs is unchecked.
  • Bibliothek des Sächsischen Staatsarchivs, Standort Bergarchiv Freiberg Nobody has walked this one yet DE — 114 km
    Bibliothek des Sächsischen Staatsarchivs, Standort Bergarchiv Freiberg — a German state or church archive. German civil registration began in 1876 and parish registers before it are largely with the Landeskirchliche Archive, so which of the two holds a record depends on its date. Harvested from Wikidata and its address opened; what is online and what it costs is unchecked.
  • Thüringisches Staatsarchiv Altenburg Nobody has walked this one yet DE — 174 km
    Thüringisches Staatsarchiv Altenburg — a German state or church archive. German civil registration began in 1876 and parish registers before it are largely with the Landeskirchliche Archive, so which of the two holds a record depends on its date. Harvested from Wikidata and its address opened; what is online and what it costs is unchecked.
  • Evangelisches Landeskirchliches Archiv in Berlin Nobody has walked this one yet DE — 175 km
    Evangelisches Landeskirchliches Archiv in Berlin — a German state or church archive. German civil registration began in 1876 and parish registers before it are largely with the Landeskirchliche Archive, so which of the two holds a record depends on its date. Harvested from Wikidata and its address opened; what is online and what it costs is unchecked.
  • Landesarchiv Berlin Nobody has walked this one yet DE — 187 km
    Landesarchiv Berlin — a German state or church archive. German civil registration began in 1876 and parish registers before it are largely with the Landeskirchliche Archive, so which of the two holds a record depends on its date. Harvested from Wikidata and its address opened; what is online and what it costs is unchecked.
  • Brandenburgisches Landeshauptarchiv Nobody has walked this one yet DE — 188 km
    Brandenburgisches Landeshauptarchiv — a German state or church archive. German civil registration began in 1876 and parish registers before it are largely with the Landeskirchliche Archive, so which of the two holds a record depends on its date. Harvested from Wikidata and its address opened; what is online and what it costs is unchecked.
  • Landeshauptarchiv Sachsen-Anhalt, Abteilung Dessau Nobody has walked this one yet DE — 196 km
    Landeshauptarchiv Sachsen-Anhalt, Abteilung Dessau — a German state or church archive. German civil registration began in 1876 and parish registers before it are largely with the Landeskirchliche Archive, so which of the two holds a record depends on its date. Harvested from Wikidata and its address opened; what is online and what it costs is unchecked.

Sources that cover everywhere

Not about Germany in particular — these reach most of the world, which includes here. They are listed after the local sources because a body that holds this ground's own paper is a better first stop than one that holds a little of everywhere's. Worth knowing they exist all the same.

  • Internet Archive Images, free, no account
    Full-text search across millions of digitised books, including parish histories, nobiliaries and local monographs that name ordinary people.
  • Arolsen Archives Images, free, no account
    The former International Tracing Service. Concentration camp, forced labour and displaced-persons records for some seventeen and a half million people, free and fully indexed.
  • BillionGraves Images, free, no account
    GPS-tagged headstone photographs. Smaller than Find a Grave but its coordinates are per-stone, which Find a Grave's often are not.
  • Find a Grave Images, free, no account
    Volunteer-photographed headstones and cemetery indexes, worldwide, with very uneven coverage. Owned by Ancestry but free to read.
  • WikiTree Images, free, no account
    A free, single shared tree with an unusually strong sourcing culture. Not a record source.
  • Yad Vashem — Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names Images, free, no account
    Names and testimony pages for victims of the Shoah, free.
  • FamilySearch Images, free, account needed
    The largest free collection of record images and indexes in the world. A free account is required, and a minority of images are restricted to Family History Centres and affiliate libraries.
  • Geni Images, free, account needed
    One shared world tree. Useful for finding other researchers on the same line; not a record source, and its assertions are only as good as their citations.
  • JewishGen Images, free, account needed
    The central Jewish genealogy resource — town-level KehilaLinks, burial and Holocaust databases, and revision lists for eastern Europe.
  • Geneanet Partly free, partly paid
    Member-contributed trees and transcriptions, strongest in France. Much is free; a Premium tier gates some search and images.
  • Ancestry Images, behind a paywall
    The largest commercial collection. Strong on the English-speaking world, censuses and immigration; weak on continental parish registers.
  • MyHeritage Images, behind a paywall
    Commercial, with a large tree network and good European newspaper and directory coverage. Search is free; opening a record is not.

FamilySearch collections that reach here

A collection is a claim over an area, not a book standing in this town — so these are ranked by how specifically they reach Kleeberg. A free account is needed to open the images, and some are restricted to a Family History Centre.

Elsewhere in the same country — 4

Narrower than the country but catalogued under some other district. Listed because a collection's title is not always where its records end, and never because it covers this ground.

The whole country — 56

Worth searching, and worth knowing it is a national index rather than a local one.

…and 31 more.

See who held Kleeberg between 1800 and 1920 →
The jurisdiction answer — which empire held this ground, and therefore whose archive — could only be got at from the map until now. This opens it there, on 1863; drag the year from any point between 1526 and 2026.

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