Reichsheim - Hohenbach Information
The Lutheran parish of Reichsheim includes the villages of Czermin, Dabrowka, Goleszow, Gorki, Lysakow, Lysakowek, Mielec, Padew, Rzedzianowice, Trzciana, Tuszow-Kol, Wojslaw, and others. Hohenbach (also Hochenbach) was the official parish, but Reichsheim was big enough that it was often book-kept separately. A large river separated the two, and that probably added to the trouble of traveling from one to the other. Thus the records from the two parishes are somewhat mixed up.
Several years ago, a Galizien German Descendants researcher had extracted the records in the table below on the village of Reichsheim (also known as Sarnów in Polish) from the archives of old Galicia. Many of the later records of our Galizien German Descendants are not available through the FHL. However, both Family Search and AGAD have some of the older records available, eg: AGAD's 427 folio. ( BMD for 1838-1851, 1858 )
The table of records below with a lock index is available for members only access and additionally we remind members that this information is supplied for private personal use only. Any other use could cause this project to end. These pages will be updated as we receive new information.
New in 2016 is that GGD has paid for a complete copy of the all the church records from 1849 to 1918. See our Parish Records page to see pictures of the actual church register. The transcripts below may help pinpoint the location of a record in those church photographs. Make sure you search (Edit => Find) on all variants of the name as transcription of handwriting is not an exact science.
There is also a Polish web page for the Czermin Catholic Parish which includes some Lutheran records in the Hohenbach area. Use Chrome or Edge translation to view the pages in English. Of particular interest are the indexed records of birth, marriage and death from 1800 to 1918 that are downloadable Excel files for for many individual villages in the area. Hohenbach records are included in the Czermin set. (See tabs at the bottom of each excel spread schedule for breakdown of years - note years missing: 1816, 1824-1826, 1830). Most of these records are not for German ancestors, so use the Excel workbook search function to find your surname. Some, but not all, of these Czermin Parish records are viewable on FamilySearch, however are limited to viewing in a FamilySearch Center. See https://parafiaczermin.pl/?page_id=288
Reichsheim Records : ( Map Ref B6 )
| Hohenbach Birth index 1838-1851, 1858 |  Hohenbach_birth index_1849-1918 |
| Hohenbach Marriage index 1838-1851, 1858 | Marriages in Reichsheim, index 1881 to 1884 |
| Hohenbach Death index 1838-1851, 1858 | Deaths in Hohenbach, index 1849 to 1918 |
| Reichsheim Cadastral Maps | |
| Reichsheim 1850 Land Census (listing of landowners and their homes and parcels) |
Hohenbach 1850 Land Census (listing of landowners and their homes and parcels) |