The German Churches
LOOKING FOR A GERMAN CHURCH SERVICE?
Zion Lutheran Church of the City of Baltimore
At the center of the early German community in Maryland was their church. The church was the meeting place, not only to practice your faith, but to maintain your culture. The church was the center of many of our ancestors' social lives. Many of the early churches provided the immigrants with the service in their native tongue. As you will see many of these churches maintained a German service and later added English services. Estimates put early populations as one third Catholic and two thirds Protestant, primarily Lutheran and Reformed. Zion Church in the City of Baltimore continues to offer a German service each Sunday morning.
Some notes about the early churches
In the first decade of the 1900s, 30 churches offered services in German.
In 1929 there were 22 churches in and around Baltimore where the services were done wholly or in part, in German.
John Foertschbeck, Sr. 'German Catholic Parishes of Maryland and Pennsylvania' . For information or to purchase a copy, visit John's website. Click here!
Aisquith Street German Reformed Church
Apples Church/Jacob's-Thurmont
Augs burg Evangelical Lutheran Church-Baltimore
Beard's Lutheran Church-Washington County
Bethany Lutheran Church (Baltimore)
Bethel Lutheran Church-Frederick
Bethlehem Evangelical Lutheran-Baltimore
Bixler's United Methodist-Manchester
Christ United (German Evangelical Lutheran Christ Church-Baltimore)
Christ's Church at Cavetown/The Reformed Church at Cavetown
Christ Lutheran Church-Grantsville
Christ Reformed Church-Hagerstown
Christ Reformed Congregation-Baltimore
Church of the Fourteen Holy Martyrs
The Dunker Church/German Baptist-Sharpsburg
Emmanuel English Lutheran Church
Emmanuel Reformed/Baust/Taneytown
Evangelical Lutheran Church-Frederick
Evangelical Reformed, United Church of Christ-Frederick
Faith Lutheran Church-Baltimore
First & St. Stephens-Baltimore
First Lutheran Church of Ellicott City
(The) Frederick Lutheran Church-Frederick
Friedens (German) Evangelical Lutheran Church
German Baptist Church-Pipe Creek Church of Brethren
German Evangelical Lutheran Church of Peace
German Evangelical Lutheran Church of Peace
German Evangelical Lutheran Concordia Church
German Evangelical Lutheran Jerusalem Church
German Evangelical Lutheran Zion's Church
German Lutheran Church - Frostburg
German Reformed Church of Peace
Grace German Reformed - Baltimore
Grace Reformed/Trinity Lutheran-Taneytown
Harford Avenue M.E. German Chapel
Immanuel Lutheran Church-Baltimore
Immanuel Lutheran Church-Carroll County
Jacob's Lutheran Church-Washington County
Jerusalem Evangelical Lutheran Church-Baltimore
Jerusalem Lutheran Church-Westminster
Lazarus Lutheran Church-Lineboro
Light Street German M.E. Church
Lutheran Church of the Reformation-Baltimore City
Martin Luther Lutheran Church-Baltimore
Messiah English Lutheran Church
Miller's United Methodist Church-Manchester
Mount Calvery Evangelical Lutheran-Sharpsburg
Mount Union Brethren Church-Carroll County
Mount Zion Lutheran Church-Frederick
Mount Zion (Haugh's)-Woodsboro
Pennsylvania Avenue M.E. Church
Sacred Heart of Jesus-Highlandtown
Many of the Lutheran and Reformed records for those churches no longer is service, were moved to:
Evangelical & Reformed Historical Society
Website: https://erhistoricalsociety.org/
Email: erhs@lancasterseminary.edu or sholl@eden.edu
Phone (Please call before visiting to assure staff will be available to assist)
(717) 290-8734 (314) 252-3141
Addresses
555 W. James Street, Lancaster, PA 17602
475 E. Lockwood Avenue, Webster Groves, MO 63119
You may also want to try
United Lutheran Seminary
61 Seminary Ridge, Gettysburg, PA. 17325
Evan E. Boyd-Library Director (eboyd@USL.edu)
St. James Evangelical Lutheran Church- Baltimore
St. Jerome's RC Church-Baltimore
St. John's Concordia Evangelical Lutheran
St. John's Lutheran- Creagerstown
St. John's Lutheran-Pimlico-Baltimore
St. John's Lutheran-Hagerstown
St. John’s German Evangelical Lutheran Church-Baltimore
St. John's (Leisters) Evangelical Lutheran Church
St. John's Lutheran Church-Parkville
St. Luke's Lutheran Church-Baltimore (36th Street)
St. Luke's Evangelical Reformed-Baltimore (Carey Street)
St. Luke's Lutheran Church-Cumberland
St. Luke's Lutheran-New Windsor
St. Marcus' /St. Mark'sGerman Evangelical
St. Mary's Evangelical Lutheran-Silver Run
St. Mary's United Church of Christ-Silver Run
St. Matthew's German Lutheran Church-Washington County
St. Matthew's Lutheran Church-Beaver Creek
St. Michael's Catholic Church-Baltimore
St. Michael's Lutheran-Perry Hall
St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran-Curtis Bay
St. Paul's Lutheran-Burkittsville
St. Paul's and Zion Lutheran Churches-Cordova
St. Paul's Evangelical-Howard County
St. Paul's Lutheran-Cumberland
St. Paul's German Evangelical - Baltimore
St. Paul's German Lutheran Church-Frostburg
St. Paul's Reformed-Clear Spring
St. Paul's Lutheran-Mechanicsville (St. Mary's County)
St. Paul's Lutheran Church-Frostburg
St. Paul's Lutheran Church-Leitersburg
St. Peter & Paul Church-Cumberland
St. Peter's Lutheran-Leitersburg
St. Peter's German Evangelical - Baltimore
St. Peter's German Independent Lutheran Church
Sts. Stephen & James Lutheran-Baltimore
St. Stephen's German Reformed Church-Baltimore
Second German Evangelical Lutheran
Second German Reformed-Old Otterbein
Third Church of the United Brethren
Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church-Baltimore (Pulaski Street)
Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church-Boonsboro
Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church-Joppa
Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church-Hagerstown
Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church-Smithsburg
Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church-Taneytown
United Evangelical Church, UCC-'Batz Church-Baltimore
Zion Church of the City of Baltimore
Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church of Christ-Baltimore County
Zion German Reformed-Baltimore
Zion Lutheran Church-Lauraville
Zion Lutheran Church-Middletown
Zion Reformed Church-Baltimore