Rhineland (Rheinland) Gazetteers

The Gemeindelexikon for Rheinland will identify the Lutheran and Catholic parishes for your locality of interest in the former Prussian province of Rheinland. It will also show the civil registration office. The 1885 Gemeindelexikon for Rheinland is online. It can be accessed at the following website:

www.digitalis.uni-koeln.de/Gemeinde/gemeinde_index.html

To locate Lutheran and Catholic parishes as well as civil registration offices in Rheinland, please use the Gemeindelexikon Rheinland. FHL call number 943 E5kp or FHL film number 491042. Here is a diagram showing the column headings in German and their English translations: