Two and a Half Centuries of Demographic History in a Bavarian Village.

Possibilities for historical demographic studies of Germany are great because of the abundance of data which is available for German populations. Rather complete series of high-quality detailed official statistics are available for most areas of Germany from the mid-nineteenth century. In addition to official statistics and parish registers, Germany may be unique in possessing genealogical studies which reconstruct the family histories of entire villages. Since the 1930's genealogists in Germany have produced books for a considerable number of villages containing these data. The present study is a description of Anhausen, one of the villages for which such a village genealogy is available. Anhausen is a small village in Bavaria about 13 kilometers west-southwest of Augsburg. At the same time, Anhausen is a parish belonging to the deanery Agawang in the diocese Augsburg. During the two and a half centuries prior to World War II the population of Anhausen shows very little growth.