Niederbayern (Lower Bavaria) is one of the seven administrative regions of Bavaria, Germany, located in the east of Bavaria. It's subdivided into three regions (Planungsverband) - Landshut, Regensburg and Donau-Wald.
Historical Population of Lower Bavaria: 1939: 755,980 1950: 1,041,333 1961: 927,724 1970: 977,166 1987: 1,027,374 2002: 1,191,476
External links
Official website of government (http://www.regierung.niederbayern.bayern.de) (German) Official website of region (http://www.bezirk-niederbayern.de) (German, French)
Niederbayern, or "Lower Bavaria", poses both difficulties and benefits for the genealogy researcher.
On top of that, as of this writing, the Passau Catholic archive (which governs the holdings of many, but not all, ancestral church records for people from Niederbayern) is one of the last Catholic church archives to finish filming their old documents.
CATHOLIC religious records for Niederbayern are mostly split between the Diocese of Passau and the Diocese of Regensburg: