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Catholic Parishes in Lippe


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Many thanks to the archive of the Vicar-general of the Archdiocese Paderborn, without their friendly assistance the information for this page could not have been obtained!

In the years 1538 to 1541 the Land Lippe joined the Reformation of Martin Luther under the leadership of Philipp Landgrave of Hessen, who was the guardian and feudal lord of Earl Bernhard VIII. zur Lippe. In some villages, the priests had started to preach Lutheran even before. After Earl Simon VI. took over regency, Lippe became Calvinistic.
In the 17th and 18th century, there was not a single Catholic parish in the entire Land Lippe. After the Reformation, Catholic life was maintained in the noble families in the north of Lippe, around the residence of the Jesuits in Falkenhagen, at the Farm of Paderborn in Schwalenberg, and in the villages Köterberg and Grevenhagen.
After the Catholic church and the Protestant territorial church were legally accorded equal status in 1854, and thus people who did not belong to the Reformed confession were no longer forced to have their births, weddings and deaths registered in the Reformed parishes, the Catholic parishes

came into being. Due to the above-mentioned restraint by the sovereigns existing until 1854, christenings, weddings and deaths of Catholics have been registered in Protestant church registers for a long time.
At the R.C. council in Trient in 1563, all priests were obliged to keep christening and wedding registers for canonical reasons. Approximately since 1614, registers of deaths had to be kept too. Since the Reformation in Lippe had already begun around 1520 and was almost terminated in 1538/41, there are no Catholic parish registers in Lippe from the time before the Reformation.
For the above-mentioned reasons, only the Catholic parish records are of interest for genealogical research in Lippe which existed when the civil records were introduced in 1876.

Parishes:

Detmold - Pfarrei Heilig Kreuz
Church books:
* 1847/1853-1874, oo 1852-1875, + 1853-1874
The books are archived at the archive of the Archdiocese Paderborn.

Detmold - Military Parish
Church books:
* 1867-1875, oo 1867-1881, + 1867-1875
The books are archived at the local parish.

Address of the parish:

Kath. Kirchengemeinde Detmold
Heilig Kreuz
Schubertplatz 10
32756 Detmold 


Falkenhagen
Church books:
* 1795-1829, 1830-1855, 1855-1875
oo 1795-1829, 1830-1855, 1855-1875
+ 1820-1829, 1830-1855, 1855-1874
The books are archived at the archive of the Archdiocese Paderborn.

Address of the parish:

Kath. Kirchengemeinde
Falkenhagen
Mittlere Str. 22
32676 Lügde 


Grevenhagen - Westfalian parish Sandebeck
Church books:
parish Sandebeck (Westfalia)
* 1645-1668, 1668-1672, 1662-1725, 1722-1768, 1769-1816, 1817-1837, 1838-1854, 1859-1875 (Grevenhagen), 1866-1874, 1622-1876 (Index)
oo 1645-1673, 1662-1725, 1722-1768, 1769-1816, 1817-1837, 1838-1854, 1859-1878 (Grevenhagen), 1855-1874, 1645-1941 + 1750-1896 (Index)
+ 1645-1673, 1662-1725, 1722-1768, 1769-1816, 1817-1837, 1859-1876 (Grevenhagen), 1852-1874, 1750-1906 (Index)
The books are archived at the local parish.

Address of the parish:

Kath. Kirchengemeinde
St. Dionysius
Dionysiusstr. 8
32839 Steinheim/Westf. 

Lemgo - Pfarrei Heilig Geist
Church books:
* oo + 1854-1897 (oo + bis 1875)
The books are archived at the local parish.

Address of the parish:

Kath. Kirchengemeinde
Heilig Geist
Pideritstr. 12
32657 Lemgo 


Schwalenberg
Church books:
* oo + 1741/1748-1878
The books are archived at the archive of the Archdiocese Paderborn.

Address of the parish:

Kath. Kirchengemeinde
Schwalenberg
Unterm Fleck 11
32816 Schieder-Schwalenberg 


Bielefeld - St. Jodokus
A (very) small part of the Bauerschaften Nienhagen and Hovedissen belonged to the Catholic parish St. Jodokus in Bielefeld.
Church books:
* 1613-1639, 1646-1760, 1760-1823, 1815-1825, 1824-1838, 1839-1849, 1850-1866, 1867-1874 (Index)
oo 1648-1760, 1760-1823, 1815-1825, 1824-1838, 1839-1849, 1850-1867, 1868-1874 (Index)
+ 1727-1760, 1760-1823, 1815-1825, 1824-1838, 1839-1849, 1850-1863, 1864-1874
The books are archived at the archive of the Archdiocese Paderborn.

Address of the parish:

Kath. Kirchengemeinde
St. Jodokus
Klosterplatz 1
33602 Bielefeld 


Addresses of Catholic parishes Lippe existing at present:

Kath. Militär- und
Ortskirchengemeinde
Augustdorf
Maria Königin des Friedens
Pivitsheider Str. 154
D-32832 Augustdorf

Kath. Kirchengemeinde
Bad Salzuflen
Liebfrauen
Leopoldstr. 1
D-32105 Bad Salzuflen

Kath. Kirchengemeinde
Schötmar
St. Kilian
Otto-Hahn-Str. 10
D-32108 Bad Salzuflen

Kath. Pfarrvikarie
Barntrup
St. Peter u. Paul
von Haxthausenstr. 1
D-32683 Barntrup

Kath. Pfarrvikarie
Blomberg
Lehmbrink 6
D-32825 Blomberg

Kath. Kirchengemeinde
Detmold
Heilig Kreuz
Schubertplatz 10
D-32756 Detmold

Kath. Pfarrvikarie
Detmold
St. Marien
Bergstr. 46
D-32756 Detmold

Kath. Pfarrvikarie
Dörentrup
Zum Kostbaren Blut
Bromernkamp
D-32694 Dörentrup

Kath. Kirchengemeinde
Bösingfeld
Heilig Geist
Rosenstr. 23
D-32699 Extertal

Kath. Kirchengemeinde
Horn-Bad Meinberg
Parkstr. 57a
D-32805 Horn-Bad Meinberg

Kath. Pfarrvikarie
Horn
Holzhauser Berg 41
D-32805 Horn-Bad Meinberg

Kath. Pfarrvikarie
Kalletal
Hohenhauser Str. 14
D-32689 Kalletal

Kath. Kirchengemeinde
Lage
Schillerstr. 11
D-32791 Lage/Lippe

Kath. Kirchengemeinde
Lemgo
Pideritstr. 12
D-32657 Lemgo

Kath. Pfarrvikarie
Leopoldshöhe
St. Michael
Falkenweg 3
D-33818 Leopoldshöhe

Kath. Kirchengemeinde
Falkenhagen
Mittlere Str. 22
D-32676 Lügde

Kath. Pfarramt
Lügde
Mühlenstr. 1
D-32676 Lügde

Kath. Kirchengemeinde
Oerlinghausen
St. Michael
Marktstr. 19
D-33813 Oerlinghausen

Kath. Kirchengemeinde
Schieder-Schwalenberg
Unterm Fleck 11
D-32816 Schieder-Schwalenberg

Kath. Pfarrvikarie
Schlangen
St. Marien
Paderborner Str. 23
D-33189 Schlangen

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