Church Books Lower Saxony

T he church books Lower Saxony are read in almost everybody on microfilms and to see therefore as duplicates in the archives. Original church registers of the Protestant land church Hannover (East Friesland) are mostly in the respective vicarages.
The Protestant church register duplicates for Wilhelmshaven and Friesland are in the upper consistory or state archive Oldenburg. They enclose for the former country Oldenburg this till 1800. In addition, the state archive Oldenburg still owns church register duplicates of 1801-1875 and from 1825 for the Jeverland. The reformed church registers are in the archive of the land consistory in Blank. Copies of the Catholic church registers are in the diocese archive Osnabrück for East Friesland. For Wilhelmshaven and Friesland the duplicates of the church registers are in the archive of the Offizialats Vechta.

Addresses

Landeskirchliches Archiv, Goethestraße 27, 30169 Hannover
Evangl. Oberkirchenrat, Philosophienweg 1, 26121 Oldenburg
Staatsarchiv, Damm 43, 26135 Oldenburg
Archiv des Landeskirchenrat, Saarstraße 6, 26789 Leer
Bistumarchiv, Große Domsfreiheit 10, 49074 Osnabrück
Archiv des Offizialats, Bahnhofstraße 6, 49377 Vechta