Church book puzzles solved: Stendal celebrates the return of a treasure!

Church book puzzles solved: Stendal celebrates the return of a treasure!

The Evangelical Municipalities in Stendal, Saxony-Anhalt, has received a historic church register back, which was stolen 26 years ago. This reports Deutschlandfunk Kultur . The church register is considered one of the oldest in the Altmark and contains valuable baptism, wedding and death entries, which have been returned to the late 16th century and continued until the early 18th century.

The baptism entry by Johann Joachim Winkelmann, who is considered the founder of classical archeology and modern art science, is particularly remarkable. This entry was documented on a postcard during the GDR period. The church register was stolen in 1998 at a break-in in the parish hall of the Petri Church. Last November, however, a person who announced that he wanted to return the book free of charge.

about the church archives in Stendal

The church register is part of a larger inventory of genealogical documents that are kept in the Stendal church district archive. As Genwiki reports , the archive includes a variety of church records that cover the various parish archives of the region. These include the parish archives in Buchholz, Garlipp and Möringen. The stocks date differently and vary, with some archives completely without church records.

The church administrative office is responsible for the management of these documents and thus represents an important resource for genealogical research. The detailed documentation in the church district archive is of great value for research and the processing of local history in the Altmark.

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