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1. forebears.io › germany › bavariaWaldsassen Genealogy Resources & Vital Records - Forebears

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   Find birth, marriage & deaths records; census, military and other genealogical records for Waldsassen.

2. familytreemagazine.com › german-genealogy-websitesThe 12 Best German Genealogy Websites - Family Tree Magazine

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   • Archion ($) The major Protestant denomination of Germany—a loose union of more than a dozen state-based church organizations, collectively called Evangelisch—has undertaken a state-of-the-art digitization program.
   • Matricula. Accessing records for Germany’s other major Christian confession, Roman Catholicism, used to be an exercise in “downpour or drought.” Some were available on FamilySearch.org and/or in the Family History Library (see website No. 3), but many were simply off-limits.
   • FamilySearch. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (through its Family History Library and FamilySearch website) has long provided steady “sunshine” for German genealogists.
   • Ancestry.com ($) Ancestry.com has quite a number of American church records collections for ethnic German congregations, including Historical Society of Pennsylvania collections as well as the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America registers.

3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › WaldsassenWaldsassen - Wikipedia

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   Waldsassen is the northernmost municipality of the Upper Palatinate region. In the northeast, it borders the town of Cheb ( Eger ) in the Czech Republic . The historic tripoint of ducal Altbayern , the Franconian lands of Bayreuth , and the Bohemian Egerland lies near the village of Pechtnersreuth.

4. www.spottinghistory.com › view › 5803Waldsassen Abbey, Waldsassen, Germany - SpottingHistory

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   Waldsassen, Germany. Waldsassen Abbey was founded by Gerwich of Wolmundstein, a Benedictine monk of Sigeberg Abbey, with the permission of his former abbot Kuno, then Bishop of Regensburg, and built between 1128 and 1132.

   • Location: Basilikaplatz 2, Waldsassen, Germany

5. iggp.org › german-genealogy-resources-mapGerman genealogy resources map | International German ...

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   This map shows resources for family history researchers in the US and German-speaking areas. It includes genealogical groups, archives, and libraries. Most locations are in Germany and the United States, but IGGP partner societies worldwide are also pinned on the map.

6. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Waldsassen_AbbeyWaldsassen Abbey - Wikipedia

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   Waldsassen Abbey (German: Abtei Waldsassen) is a Cistercian nunnery, formerly a Cistercian monastery, located on the River Wondreb at Waldsassen near Tirschenreuth, Oberpfalz, in Bavaria, Germany, close to the border with the Czech Republic. In the Holy Roman Empire it was an Imperial Abbey.

7. www.mygermancity.com › waldsassenWaldsassen — It’s All About The Abbey, And Glass

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   Waldstetten in the Upper Palatinate is famous for its 12th century abbey with a church, library, garden, and Goethe monument. There's also another Baroque church which you'll see on a historical walking tour.

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   Where is Waldsassen Abbey?

   • Waldsassen Abbey (German: Abtei Waldsassen) is a Cistercian nunnery, formerly a Cistercian monastery, located on the River Wondreb at Waldsassen near Tirschenreuth, Oberpfalz, in Bavaria, Germany, close to the border with the Czech Republic. In the Holy Roman Empire it was an Imperial Abbey.

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   Where is Waldsassen located?

   • Waldsassen (German pronunciation: [valtˈzasn̩] ⓘ; Northern Bavarian: Woidsassen) is a town in the district of Tirschenreuth in the Upper Palatinate region of Bavaria. Waldsassen is the northernmost municipality of the Upper Palatinate region. In the northeast, it borders the town of Cheb (Eger) in the Czech Republic.

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   When did Waldsassen become a city?

   • Part of the Kingdom of Bavaria from 1806, the local economy, mainly porcelain and glassblowing industries, was boosted by the opening of the Wiesau–Cheb railway line in 1865. Prince Regent Luitpold vested Waldsassen with city rights in 1896.

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   Who founded the Cistercian Waldsassen Abbey?

   • The Cistercian Waldsassen Abbey was founded on 1 October 1133 by the Bavarian noble Margrave Diepold III of Vohburg. [citation needed] An Imperial abbey from 1214 onwards, it fell to Palatinate-Mosbach-Neumarkt branch of the House of Wittelsbach under the rule of Count Palatine Otto II in 1465.

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   Where can I find a family history database in Germany?

   • Hesse and the Hannover area are especially well represented, though the database includes OFBs from around German-speaking Europe. The site is run by Germany’s largest family history membership organization (Verein für Computergenealogie e.V.), which focuses on online genealogy and boasts thousands of members.

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   Where can I find information about 18th-century German ancestry?

   • For those with 18th-century immigrant German ancestry, Ancestry.com has digital versions of published resources that have entered the public domain, such as Pennsylvania German Pioneers and Naturalizations in America and the West Indies. Search these documents on Ancestry.com by given names to help account for alternate surname spellings.

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