The "Gemeindelexikon" is perhaps the secondmost important gazetteer for German reseach. It is arranged by politicaljurisdictions, that is, each volume covers one-to-three Prussian provinces.Within each province, the material is divided into Kreise ("counties").And within each Kreise, the communities are further organized into typesof community. Within those categories, the list of communities is presentedin alphabetic order.

The material is presented in the form of a table. Various statisticsfor each community are provided, including: area, # of buildings, # of menof fighting age, ave. taxable value of the land, population broken downby religion and language-spoken, as well as the names of the communitieswhere the civil registration office and Catholic and Protestant churcheswere located.


The information below is a re-worked presentation of the informationfound in the LDS catalog about this resource...

Gemeindelexikon für das Königreich Preußen
auf Grund der Materialen der Volkszählung vom 1. Dezember 1905und anderer amtlicher Quellen

Gazetteer of the Kingdom of Prussia, Germany, based on the 1905 census.Comprises areas later part of East and West Germany; Lithuania; Kaliningrad,Russia; Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Denmark, and Belgium. Shows jurisdictionsof Protestant and Catholic parishes and civil registration districts. Includesstatistical data and indexes. Text in German.

Books published in 1907-1909 by Verlag des Königlichen StatistischenLandesamts, Berlin in 15 Volumes (15 Bde).

 Call Numbers Locations
 943 E5kp, 943 E5kp index FHL INTL Book, FHL INTL Reference, FHL INTL Reg Table

Microfilmed from three originals in... (Mikrofilme aufgenommen von Originalenin... )

35 mm.

(Should equal 12 films, but there appear to be 17 different films available)

The two table below are designed to help make sense of the films andtheir contents. The first one provides a list of films which contain certainareas. The next table displays a list of the films with contents, makingit easier to choose which film(s) to order which contains the areas of interest.(The two films, #1181005 and #1181006, supposedly contain the entire 15volumes).


Contents and their films
CONTENTS THE FILMS
Generalregister. 2 Bde. #491034   #1181005   #1346211
Heft 1
(Ostpreußen)
  #1186701
Item 3
#1181005 #1187921
Item 2
#1346208
Item1
Heft 2
(Westpreußen)
  #1186701
Item 4
#1181005 #1187921
Item 3
#1346208
Item 2
Heft 3
(Berlin und Brandenburg)
#491044 #806635
Item 1
#1181005    #1346208
Item 3
 Hefte 4
(Pommern)
  #806634
Item 4
#1181005    #1346208
Item 4
 Heft 5
(Posen)
#491040 #806634
Item 5
#1181005 #806635
Item 4
 #1346209
Item 1
 Heft 6
(Schlesien)
  #806633
Item 2
#1181005 #1183537
Item 5
#1346209
Item 2
 Hefte 7
(Sachsen)
#491040 #806634
Item 3
#1181005   #1346209
Item 3
 Heft 8
(Schleswig-Holstein)
  #806635
Item 3
#1181005    #1346209
Item 4
 Heft 9
(Hannover)
  #806634
Item 2
#1181005    #1346210
Item 1
Heft 10
(Westfalen, Waldeck, Pyrmont)
#491042 #1181006     #1346210
Item 2
Heft 11
(Hessen-Nassau)
  #1181006 #1186702
Item 1
#1187921
Item 4
#1346210
Item 3
Heft 12
(Rheinprovinz) 
  #1181006 #1186702
Item 2
#1187921
Item 5
#1346210
Item 4
Heft 13
(Hohenzollern)
#806635
Item 2
#1181006 #1186702
Item 3
#1187921
Item 5
#1346210
Item 5
Films and their contents
 FILM # CONTENTS
 491034 Generalregister
 491040 Posen / Sachsen
 491042 Westfalen, Waldeck, Pyrmont
 491044 Berlin und Brandenburg
 806633 Schlesien
 806634 Pommern / Posen / Sachsen / Hannover
 806635 Berlin und Brandenburg / Posen / Schleswig-Holstein / Hohenzollern
 1181005 Generalregister / Ostpreußen / Westpreußen / Berlin undBrandenburg / Pommern / Posen / Schlesien / Sachsen / Schleswig-Holstein/ Hannover
 1181006Westfalen, Waldeck, Pyrmont / Hessen-Nassau /  Rheinprovinz / Hohenzollern
 1183537 Schlesien
 1186701 Ostpreußen / Westpreußen
 1186702 Hessen-Nassau / Rheinprovinz / Hohenzollern
 1187921 Ostpreußen / Westpreußen / Hessen-Nassau / Rheinprovinz/ Hohenzollern
 1346208 Ostpreußen / Westpreußen / Berlin und Brandenburg / Pommern
 1346209Posen /  Schlesien / Sachsen / Schleswig-Holstein
 1346210 Hannover / Westfalen, Waldeck, Pyrmont / Hessen-Nassau / Rheinprovinz/ Hohenzollern
 1346211 Generalregister