Good morning friends, can anyone please translate the sponsors on the attached birth record for Anna
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@LaraKF LaraKF, very good question.
Rehberg does have a church building (the meyersgaz entry says Rehberg has "1 evangelisch Kirche"), but it doesn't have a Pfarrkirche (i.e., a parish church building, i.e., the main church building of a parish; you can read a little about that here).
The FS Catalog entry for the Evangelische Kirche Göhren says that the Göhren parish includes Rehberg.
So, Rehberg has an actual physical church building, but it is a sub-church of a parish, or in other words an affiliate church building of a parish. Göhren is the one keeping the records because it is the one with a Pfarrkirche (see the bottom of its main page on meyersgaz.org), and thus, it is the Göhren parish. My previous explanation was a little simplified, as most people just wonder about why some towns have a church building while others don't.
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Here is what I read:
29 July Joachim Dornbracks daughter
Anna Christina
witnesses 1) Christina Dorn (Magd?) maid? at the farm 2) Anna Dörnbrack
Magd (?) maid ? von Rohberg or Rosberg 3) Adolf Fried(rich) Notenberg here?
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When I downloaded this record I noted that it came from Bredenfelde.
I believe the second baptismal sponsor, Anna Dörnbrack, comes from the town of Rehberg, which is about 2 miles northeast of Bredenfelde.
Here is the link for Rehberg from Meyers Gazetteer:
https://www.meyersgaz.org/place/20562062
If you click on the "Map" link in the gray bar at the top of the entry, then travel about 4 inches southwest on the map from Rehberg, you will find Bredenfelde.
Click on the "Ecclesiastical" link in the gray bar and you will note the Bredenfelde is about 2 miles from Rehberg.
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Thanks Robert and B. St! Thanks for the Gazetteer. I am familiar with the area and have a physical map that I often refer to. I think you are correct about Rehberg. A lot of the family came from there. I appreciate all your help!
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Looking at the Gazetteer link, what is the difference between having a parish and a church?
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I second your opinion about Rehberg, Robert :-)
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"Parish" and "church" is interchangeable in the way the words are used on meyersgaz.org. A parish is a Protestant or Catholic administrative district, and a church is the actual physical meetinghouse.
Note that many towns are too small to have a church building. As such, people living in those smaller towns would attend church in a close-by, but larger, town. There are thus often multiple towns that make up a single parish. For example, Vorheide is a small town one mile from Rehberg. Vorheide does not have its own Protestant church building, so its Protestant inhabitants likely belonged to the Rehberg Protestant parish. since that is the closest town containing a Protestant church building.
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Thank you, @B. St and @Charlotte Noelle Champenois -- I think it's great when several people answer a question, sharing the various knowledge that each person has. It really helps the person who asked the original question.
Also, thank you @Dabney Denbrock Corbi for asking the question about the difference between "parish" and "church".
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If this is the case, why are the records for Rehberg located in the parish of Göhren?
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Good question!
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