Catholic church records, Baden, 18th century

Question

What is the availability of catholic church records in the Margraviate of Baden in the 19th century? (I know that the diocese of Regensburg is still stalling digitizing theirs, and there may be a religious motive.) All I have access to is duplicates, created by decree and stored with the civilian authorities, covering the period from 1810 to 1870 and now available online at the State Archives in Karlsruhe. (The transcriptions on FamilySearch are quite incomplete and riddled with mistakes.)

I am looking specifically for records in the village of Hörden, a branch parish of Gernsbach, and within these records I am trying to research a man named Joseph Rahner. There seem to be three people by that name, Rahner-24 (abt 1780-1859) and his father Rahner-25 (abt 1752-1827), as well as a third Joseph Rahner who is identified in two records as "Michel's son". The village of Hörden is quite small and dominated by four last names (Rahner is one of them), so I am convinced that there is a family connection, and I rather suspect that Michael Rahner is a brother of Rahner-25.

Is there any way to prove this?

Comments

Gus,  Do you have more information regarding your comment "(I know that the diocese of Regensburg is still stalling digitizing theirs, and there may be a religious motive.)"

I have written the diocese three times trying to get more information as to when the records will be available and all I've gotten is generic answers.  My wife's family is from several of the villages in their area and I'm stalled on researching them.

Thank you.

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I do not know anything further. I signed the petition at openpetition.de and have gotten updates from them, but I was left with the distinct impression that the bishop of Regensburg was not particularly interested in moving this issue forward. I don't think it's money, so what else is there but a religious motive?

Answer 1

German Catholic records you find here :

https://data.matricula-online.eu/de/

The page is free.

Comments

You may also have luck on ancestry or FamilySearch. A few Catholic records are also online avaible on archion.

If you cannot find them on any of these pages, the only way is to write to the concerning diocese to get the records. But that will normally cost you some money.

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Danke, Dieter. Baden scheint leider nicht in der Sammlung zu sein.

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Thanks, Dieter. Unfortunately it seems that Baden is not part of the collection.

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Apparently not on Archion, either. Oh well. I'll put him in as an unconnected profile for now.

Answer 2

Unfortunately, the Catholic church records of Hörden near Gernsbach are not (yet?) available at matricula-online.eu. As far as I know, there are currently only the so-called "Standesbücher" of Hörden online, and only for the limited period from 1810-1870. Here are the links:

Birth register 1810-1869: http://www.landesarchiv-bw.de/plink/?f=4-1215653-1

Marriage register 1810-1870: http://www.landesarchiv-bw.de/plink/?f=4-1215654-1

Death register 1810-1870: http://www.landesarchiv-bw.de/plink/?f=4-1215655-1