Local heritage book of Rosengarten

From about 1700 the area of the former Rosengarten [1, 2] parish (which had been established before the Reformation) included the following villages, estates and dwelling places:

Family researchers in the area of the former Rosengarten parish are in a fortunate position in so far as the church registers from 1700 onwards have been preserved almost completely.  When civil registration was introduced in East Prussia from about October 1874, the area of the Rosengarten parish was subdivided into the registry precincts of Rosengarten, Steinort and Doben. Some of the civil registers (for example the Rosengarten births 1874-1902) have been lost after 1944. However, the gaps can be filled from the church registers, which had been continued to almost the end of 1944.

During the period 1770-1944 alphabetic indices of all the church registers had been generated.  In addition, for the years 1750-1840, there exist birth indices for individual villages and dwelling places.
As the films of the church registers contain a number of illegible segments, the indices can become helpful in reconstructing the contents of the damaged register pages.

In the year 1938 the original Rosengarten church registers had been filmed twice, and with different equipment.

All registers (including the civil registers kept at the Berlin State Archives) have been digitised by Archion [9], Ancestry [10] and the GSU [11], and can be downloaded in so far as they are not subject to statutory blocking periods.

The original capture of the Rosengarten registers from GSU-films [11] into Excel-tables by Heinrich Grinda dates back to the years 2007-2015.  He has also compiled the core of these introductory remarks.  Some of the films blocked in Germany had to be viewed outside the country.  The local heritage book covering the area of the former Rosengarten parish is mainly based on these Excel-tables. 

In addition to the data from the official church and civil registers, the personal data in the "Angerburger Kreisblatt" [12] from 1855 to 1907 (digitization and recording by Winfried Lyszio), the mill allotment lists [17] of 1763 and 1769 (digitization and recording by Norbert Skowron) and the relevant telephone books from 1914 [13] and 1942 [14] have been captured and incorporated into this heritage book.

The reponsibility for all errors, omissions, inaccuracies etc., however, rests exclusively with the editor.

Fig. 1:  Area of the Rosengarten parish [15]

Sections from the map "Karte des Deutschen Reiches" [16], which can be expanded over the whole are of the monitor screen, and additional information can be viewed by entering the name of any place in the Rosengarten parish area at www.meyersgaz.org.

References:

1. Pfeiffer, E., Der Kreis Angerburg, 2. Aufl. 1998, S. 320, Selbstverlag der Kreisgemeinschaft Angerburg;
2. http://genwiki.genealogy.net/Rosengarten_(Kreis_Angerburg);
3. von Suchodoletz, Samuel, Ein Theil der Aembter Barten, Gerdauen, Angerburg.., Karte ~1:100 000, 1732;
4. von Schrötter, Friedrich Leopold, Karte von Ost-Preussen nebst Preussisch Litthauen und West-Preussen nebst Netzedistrict 1796–1802;
5. Königlich Preußisches Statististisches Landesamt, Gemeindelexikon für die Provinz Ostpreußen, 1907, VFFOW Sonderschrift 102;
6. Wojskowy Instytut Geograficzny Warszawa, 105 RASTENBURG_(Rastembork), Karte 1:100 000, 1924;
7. Reichsamt für Landesaufnahme Berlin, Großblatt 30a: Rastenburg-Lötzen-Arys, Karte 1:100 000, 1941;
8. http://mapy.geoportal.gov.pl/imap/, 2018;
9. https://www.archion.de/en/
10. https://www.ancestry.com
11. Die Genealogical Society of Utah (GSU), gegründet 1894, arbeitet als FamilySearch International und ist der genealogische Arm der Kirche Jesu Christi der Heiligen der letzten Tage (LDS Church);
12. Landkreis Angerburg (Kr. Angerburg, Ostpreußen),  Angerburger Kreis-Blatt, 1855-1907, Druck und Verlag der F. J. Priddatschen Buchdruckerei in Angerburg, Bestände der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Zeitungsabteilung  Unter den Linden;
13. Deutsche Reichspost, Gesamt-Verzeichnis der Teilnehmer an den Fernsprechnetzen in den Ober-Postdirektionsbezirken Bromberg, Danzig, Gumbinnen, Königsberg und Köslin, Oktober 1914, Verlag der Fritz G. Koch'schen Verlagsanstalt, Breslau 23;
14. Deutsche Reichspost, Reichs-Telefonbuch, 44. Ausgabe, Januar 1942, Verlag  Paul Aug. Hoffmann K.G., Berlin NW 7;
15. Reymann, G. D., Oesfeld, C. W. von [Mitarb.] ; Handtke, F. [Mitarb.], Königl. Preuss. Gr. Generalstab, Verlag von C. Flemming, Glogau, Reymann's topographische Special-Karte von Central Europa 1:200 000 (1873), Special-Karte M Rastenburg [Ausschnitt];  http://igrek.amzp.pl ;
16. Kartographische Abtheilung der Königlich Preussischen Landes-Aufnahme,  Karte des Deutschen Reiches <1:100 000>, ~1893;
17. Amt Angerburg (Preußen), Mühlenconsignationen, 1763 und 1769, "Ertrag des Koeniglich Preußischen Domainen Ambts Angerburg Von/Bis Trinitatis 1763/1769", Bestände des Staatsarchivs Königsberg im GStAPK, Berlin