The LDS church has not microfilmed the protestant church records for Alt Rudnitz. I have watched for the records for many years. Can someone tell me where these church records might be for the mid 1700s to 1820? I know the town had a church. Posted 24 August 1997.

I'm also looking for Lutheran church records from Alt Ruednitz. I noticed you posted your query more than 10 years ago. Have you had any luck? You are right, a picture of the Lutheran church is available online.

Several other people (as well as myself) are also looking for these records. Information that I've gotten is that the records were most likely destroyed in the war. I posted a query about them with a German genealogy group from the Neumark area and was told that they have not been found since WWII. I also have a distant relative (German) who inquired about them himself several years ago and was told by church authorities that they could not be found.

I was stationed with the US army in Germany from 1998-2000. I traveled to this region twice searching for this info. I spoke with two evangelical pastors on the German side of the Oder river, in the towns of Neu Cuestrinschen and Neu Lietzegoericke. The pastors both were old men at the time, and told me they along with many others wish they had a clue what happened to this book. I went to the city of Alt Ruednitz myself.

Also, the original Lutheran church no longer exists in Alt Ruednitz. The newer pictures you are seeing are of a church built shortly after WW2. It is either catholic or eastern Orthodox. There are ruins of three other churches still standing (as of the year 2000.) Over 1000 germans were living here in the early 1940's, today only about 150 polish.

Most of the German town was destroyed by the Russians in 1945 as they pushed toward Berlin. The Germans in Alt Ruednitz at that time pretty much had to grab whatever they could and literally run for their lives. It is very likey that this book was destroyed or lost.

I learned just recently their is an old german cemetery a few miles to the west, in the neighboring town of Alt Cuestrinschen (not sure of the Polish spelling off the top of my head). It is pretty much destroyed and completely overgrown with moss and trees, but there may be some surviving stones that have been transscribed.