Where is Daniel Falckner's birth record? born ~1641 in Langen-Reinsdorf [closed]

Question

I ran across a profile for one of my maternal 8th grandfathers, so I started digging around trying to find a birth record for him, and his two sons. His profile and son's biography seem to have him born 1641. There may be records found for his father's family, but at a different Langenberg though, near Stettin. The Langenberg near Zwickau can be seen here at https://www.meyersgaz.org/place/2001404 which seems to be near Döbeln which can be seen here at https://www.meyersgaz.org/place/10352051. The Langenberg near Stettin can be seen here https://www.meyersgaz.org/place/20014035. I'm not sure if there is a problem in Ancestry, Meyers, or in the published biography or if this is a different Christian Faulkner. 

Both Daniel and his father are reported as ministers of Langen-Reinsdorf. I understand his sons were among the first Lutheran ministers ordained in Pennsylvania and perhaps New York. Justus Falckner seems to have a great deal written about him. I'm having trouble finding Church Records from the mid 17th century for this family

Let me know if you can shed any light on this geographically, historically, Lutheran Records or otherwise.

Thanks,

Mary Baker

Answer 1

This was during the Thirty Years War, about 1618-48, which was an extremely destructive war, with parts of Germany loosing 50% of the population. This war has aspects of both a civil war, and a religious war between Protestants and Catholics. If you find church registers of this time period you are indeed lucky, and those of this early period often do not provide much detail, not to mention being quite difficult to read.

I have seen one church register from this period in the Austria Empire, a Catholic register, and the first page is annotated that it is the first Catholic church register since the Protestants were expelled from that area. The earlier Protestant registers are almost non-existent. Something to consider is the religion of the population was determined by the ruling prince, Duke, or whoever: if the ruler changed religions for any reason (say a Catholic noble replaced a Protestant one), the the people’s religion then changed.

This may be the end of the trail for this family. However, getting back this far is an accomplishment to be proud of.

Answer 2

Hello,

for Langenreinsdorf, https://www.meyersgaz.org/place/20018030, church books survived the Thirty Years War and existed in 1901 - it can be seen in the book "Die Kirchenbücher aus Sachsen" from 1901. https://wiki.genealogy.net/Die_Kirchenb%C3%BCcher_im_K%C3%B6nigreich_Sachsen_(1901)/135

It is likely they were destroyed in WW2.

You could tag your question with "Sachsen, Deutschland" or "Crimmitschau, Sachsen" to find somebody with local knowledge of archives.

Is it possible that the death place Reinsdorf is just short for Langen-Reinsdorf, and not a different place 100 km away?

Where did you get the Langenberg from? Do you have any further info about the place?

Best regards

Bettina

Comments

Thanks for the response. I wonder if records for that area are available for 1578 and later or 1578 only. Regardless, it seems both responses agree they were likely destroyed.

I'm not sure on the death location, I will check with the profile-owner.

Regarding Langenberg, I'm not sure how I got there. I was looking at Ancestry and saw the Stettin record associated with the family, searching Meyers, I found Langenberg which had several instances, one near Crimmitschau.

Thanks again for your response and suggestions.