The Catholic Parish of Roggenstein (St. Jakob) belongs to Bistum Regensburg in Bavaria. Its records have been digitized, beginning in 1693 and ending in 1903. They are accessible at Matricula Online: Roggenstein. The parish today includes smaller municipalities like Erpetshof, Herrnmühle, Kaimling, Lämersdorf, Muglhof, Oedenthal, Trauschendorf, and Zeßmannsrieth.

Roggenstein Family Names

Surnames that appear in Roggenstein Parish include: ALLIO, BADHORN, BAUER, BÄUMLER, BAYERL, BETZ, BIRNER, BOCK, BOJER, BRAUN, DEMLEUTHNER, EIBERWEISER, FALTENBACHER, FLEISCHMANN, FORSTER, FISCHHOLZ, FUCHS, GÖSL, GRAF, HAGEN, HÄGLER, HENGSTL, HERRMANN, HILBURGER, HIRMER, KICK, KOLLER, KRAUS, KUMMET, LANG, LINDNER, LINGL, LUKAS, MEILER, MESSER, OSTERREICHER, PAUSCH, REIL, ROSNER, SCHILLER, SCHÖNBERGER, SCHUHMAN, SCHWALM, STADLER, STRIGL, TROPPMANN, WALDHIER, WEICH, WURZER, ZENGER. Surnames in my direct ancestry are bolded.

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Roggenstein Family Book

Here are more than 100 pages of family groups for Roggenstein based on transcriptions I’ve been working on. This includes all Hilburgers and it quickly evolved to include many other Roggenstein families. The source of the original documents is Bischöfliches Zentralarchiv Regensburg (BZAR), Pfarrmatrikel Roggenstein, Volumes 1-11, and the file below can also be downloaded. Note that the families are sorted in alphabetical order.

Ancestors in Roggenstein Parish Records

My 4th great-grandfather Tobias HILBURGER was born in 1819 in Kaimling. He was a son of Johann Joseph HILBURGER and Anna Maria WALDHIER.

His father was from Schirmitz, while his mother was a native of Kaimling. She was born in 1777 in Kaimling, a daughter of Caspar WALDHIER and Maria Margaretha BOJER.

Maria WALDHIER married Erhard STADLER in 1802. After he passed away in 1814, she remarried Joseph HILBURGER.

Tobias lost both parents before immigrating to the United States in 1853 – his father passed away in 1844, and he is called a widower. His mother died earlier in 1827.

The WALDHIER family has roots in Kaimling dating back to the 1690s. Adam WALDHIER of Waldau, son of a Conrad WALDHIER, married Dorothea KICK of Kaimling, daughter of a Michael KICK, in 1694 in Roggenstein. It appears that all of the Kaimling WALDHIERs trace back to this couple.

My branch descends of their eldest son, Martin WALDHIER, born in 1697 in Kaimling, through his 2nd wife, Cunigunda WURZER. They married in 1740 and their 3rd child was Caspar WALDHIER, born in 1745 in Kaimling. He married Margaretha BOJER of Zessmannsrieth in 1767 in Roggenstein.