Probsthagen

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Probsthagen

Bibliography/Bibliographie

Wilkening, Karl: 750 Jahre Kirche Probsthagen: 1240-1990. (Stadthagen: Bernhardt-Patzold, 1992.)
Probsthagen (Index to Churchbooks, reference in IGS library)
Hitzemann, Kurt Allan: Families in Probsthagen: A listing of families of the Parish of Probsthagen, including residents of Probsthagen, Vornhagen and Habichhorst, from 1600 to 1870. (Lockport, Illinois: private 2000, also online)

Evangelische Kirchengemeinde Probsthagen

History/Geschichte

Supposedly founded in 1230 by Schaumburger Graf Propst Bruno von Lübeck, later the Bishop of Olmütz.

Angeblich 1230 vom Schaumburger Graf Propst Bruno von Lübeck, später Bischof von Olmütz gegründet.

Towns in the Parish/Eingepfarrten Ortschaften

Probsthagen, Vornhagen, Habichhorst

Churchbooks/Kirchenbücher

*	1604-1808
oo	1600-1808
+	1619-1808
*	1809-1947(with/mit Index)
conf,oo,+	1809-1908(with/mit Index),1909-1947

An index to the Probsthagen churchbooks is held by the Immigrant Genealogical Society.

Pastors/Pastoren

 1339      Conrad von Münchhausen
 1396      Arnd Tygvoghel
 1422      Heinrich Block
c1540(20?) Johann Weber (Textor) first Lutheran minister in Schaumburg-Lippe?
     -1583 Hermann Kirchhof
 1583-1604 Heinrich Heineke (Henneke)
 1604-1622 Johann Best
 1622-1659 Albert Best
 1660-1681 Johann Schweer
 1682-1728 Heinrich Meier
 1729-1758 Conrad Friedrich Zerßen
 1758-1800 Johann David Fink(e)
 1801-1808 Andreas Zaretzky
 1808-1816 Johann Dietrich Karl Anton Bergmann
 1816-1818 Johann David Wedekind
 1818-1825 Carl Gottlieb Ludwig Schwerdtmann
 1826-1864 Johann Georg Zaretzky
 1864-1878 Hermann Sander
 1878-1884 August Wilhelm Keßler
 1885-1888 Wilhelm Teudt
 1888-1890 Hermann Walzberg
 1890-1892 Paul Gastrow
 1892-1934 Hermann Hävemeier
 1934-     Rudolf Conrades
 1999      Hartmut Spier

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