Brandenburg, German Empire Church Records

Berlin Evangelical Parish Jurisdictions
Research in Berlin is complicated by the great size of the city and the large number of parishes. There is a | Berlin Parish Street Guide register available online that will help you determine which parish your ancestor attended. Once you are at this website, click on the following:

Research Tools Country Websites German Genealogy Research German City Street Indexes Berlin Evangelical Parishes

Before using this site, it will be necessary to locate your ancestor's address in Berlin. Use the Berlin address books online or available at the Family History Library on film to do this.

How to use the Berlin Address Books
The directories are divided in sections. Of greatest genealogical value are the alphabetized listings of city inhabitants with addresses. Search for your ancestor under the alphabetical listing of names in the time period your ancestor lived in Berlin. When you find your ancestor listed, write down the street and house number where he resided. Then turn to the listing ot that street in the Street guide at the link above to determine which parish he attended in the years closest to the time period that you know he lived in Berlin.

Other sections of the directories are businesses, public offices, societies, inhabitants' addresses listed under the street they resided, rather than alphabetically by their name. The suburbs of Berlin were in many, but not all of the directories.

Berlin Suburbs
Baumschulenweg (Treptow), Boxhagen-Rummelsburg, Britz, Charlottenburg, dahlem, Friedenau, Friedrichsberg, Friedrichsfelde, Grunewald, halensee, Heinersdorf, Hohen Schönhausen, Karlshorst, Lankwitz, Lichtenberg, Groß Lichterfelde, mariendorf, Nieder-Schönhausen and Schönholz, Nikolassee, Ober-Schönweide, Pankow, Plötzensee, Reinickendorf, Rixdorf, Schlactensee, Schmargendorf, Schöneberg, Schönholz, Steglitz, Stralau, Südende, Tegel, Tempelhof, Weißensee, neu-Weißensee, Westend, Wilhelmsberg, Wilmersdorf, and Zehlendorf.