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Lengefeld

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

Last changed 2026-10-01 · first mapped 2026-09-23 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 Lengefeld. 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
    1198–1526 Kingdom of Bohemia no archive holds this yet
    1526–1918 Austria — Kingdom of Bohemia porta-fontium · actapublica · familysearch · anno
    1918–1938 Czechoslovakia porta-fontium · actapublica
    1938–1945 Sudetenland and the Reichsprotektorat arolsen · bundesarchiv
    1945–1992 Czechoslovakia actapublica
    1993–2026 Czechia porta-fontium · actapublica

    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. 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 Burkhardtsgrün
    • Lutheran Holy Cross Church, Lengefeld
    • Einzeldenkmale der Sachgesamtheit Friedhof Lengefeld: Friedhofskapelle, Einfriedung, verschiedene Grabmale und Kriegerdenkmal für die Gefallenen des 1. Weltkrieges (siehe auch Sachgesamtheitsliste - Obj. 09305860) Schwimmbadstraße 3; 5
    • Sachgesamtheit Friedhof Lengefeld, mit folgenden Einzeldenkmalen: Friedhofskapelle (Nr. 3), Einfriedung, Grabmal und Kriegerdenkmal für die Gefallenen des 1. Weltkrieges (siehe Einzeldenkmalliste - Obj. 09205606), dazu gärtnerisch gestalteter Fried

  3. 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: porta-fontium · actapublica · familysearch · anno · arolsen · bundesarchiv. What each one holds and why.

Whose archive this ground was

Lengefeld sits in Bohemia. 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
1198–1526 Kingdom of Bohemia no registers survive

Before registers.
1526–1918 Austria — Kingdom of Bohemia Porta fontium · Acta Publica · FamilySearch · ANNO — Austrian Newspapers Online

THE GOOD NEWS, AND IT IS EXCEPTIONAL. The Czech regional archives have digitised nearly every surviving parish register and put them online free, without an account. Western Bohemia is at Porta fontium, the rest at the regional archives' own portals. This is the best-served ground in this entire map.
1918–1938 Czechoslovakia Porta fontium · Acta Publica
1938–1945 Sudetenland and the Reichsprotektorat Arolsen Archives · Bundesarchiv

The Sudeten borderlands are annexed in 1938 and the interior occupied in 1939; the German population is expelled in 1945. The registers largely stayed.
1945–1992 Czechoslovakia Acta Publica
1993–2026 Czechia Porta fontium · Acta Publica

No volumes recorded here yet.

The ground worth walking

Within 22 km — 11 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 22 km, nothing catalogued

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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.

1 volumes catalogued here

The level below «a collection covers this place»: which book, for which years, and the link that opens its images. From FamilySearch's own catalogue. Nobody here has opened any of them. You can, though — mark the pages you have searched on any row below and this browser will remember where you stopped.

Other — 1

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.
  • Bibliothek des Sächsischen Staatsarchivs, Standort Bergarchiv Freiberg Nobody has walked this one yet DE — 25 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.
  • Landeskirchliches Archiv, Dresden Nobody has walked this one yet DE — 48 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.
  • Thüringisches Staatsarchiv Altenburg Nobody has walked this one yet DE — 61 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.
  • Porta fontium Images, free, no account Plzeň, Czechia — 110 km
    A Bavarian–Czech joint portal. Parish registers of western Bohemia, free.
  • Hauptstaatsarchiv Weimar Nobody has walked this one yet DE — 134 km
    Hauptstaatsarchiv Weimar — 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 — 139 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.
  • Thüringisches Staatsarchiv Gotha Nobody has walked this one yet DE — 176 km
    Thüringisches Staatsarchiv Gotha — 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 Lengefeld. 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 Lengefeld 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 1198 and 2026.

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