Kaichen Parish, Hesse, German Empire Genealogy

Guide to Kaichen Parish, Hesse, Germany ancestry, family history, and genealogy: birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, family history, and military records.

Jurisdictional Changes
Kaichen has belonged to the following independent countries or post-1871 German states:

Place Names
A very good gazetteer to begin with is Meyers Gazetteer. For more information, see the entry for Kaichen.

Another essential online gazetteer to check is the Historic Gazetteer from Compgen. For more information, see the entry for Kaichen.

Church Records
Church records for this part of the grand duchy of Hesse are held at the Central Archives and Library of the Protestant Church in Hesse and Nassau in Darmstadt, Germany, and the Evangelical Church Archive of Kurhessen-Waldeck in Kassel, Germany. The following records have been digitized by the website Archion. Archion requires a subscription. You can learn how to use Archion by clicking here. There are no indexes to these records. More recent records may be restricted.

Kaichen
Church records begin in 1665.

Heldenbergen
Church records begin in 1675. There is a gap in records between 1791 and 1839.

Church records 1675-1790 – handwritten copy Church records 1675-1791 – original Baptisms 1839-1924 Confirmations 1839-1946 Marriages 1834 Marriages 1840-1946 Burials 1839-1942

Civil Registration
Civil registration for Kaichen began in January 1876. Hesse also kept civil registration between 1803 and 1815, during the Napoleonic occupation.

Town Genealogy (OFB or Ortsfamilienbuch)
For more information about compiled genealogies, see the article Germany Town Genealogies.

Societies and Libraries
Hessian Family History Association Hessian Library Information System ‘’hebis’’ Hessian State Archives University and State Library Darmstadt University Library of Johann Christian Senckenberg (Frankfurt)