Those may or may not be the same. Furthermore, descendent certificates have been invalidated from 2009 and can no longer be used in official matters.
If you don’t have a birth certificate (anymore), you need to request a “beglaubigte Abschrift aus dem Geburtenregister“ (certified copy of the birth register) in the town where you were born.
Typically costs 10-15 EUR, I just requested a copy of mine since I got married abroad and they insisted on it.
You didn’t black out the seal, so I took the liberty to find the contact for you:
Complete the form on the bottom (Vordruck Urkundenbestellung, englisch), second page, second item from the top, and email it to the address on the website.
Although the other commenter is right and Geburtsurkunde and Abstammungsurkunde are technically not the same thing, they used to only issue an Abstammungsurkunde, therefore it serves as your birth certificate. You do not need to pay to get another document.
I only have an Abstammungsurkunde myself, same for my partner, and we recently had to use them quite a lot since we had a baby. It’s definitely accepted as a birth certificate. Our baby, btw, was not issued an Abstammungsurkunde, only a Geburtsurkunde. This practice has changed.
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It’s not the same thing.
Geburtsurkunde = birth certificate = shows legal parents
Abstammungsurkunde = descendent certificate = shows biological parents
Those may or may not be the same. Furthermore, descendent certificates have been invalidated from 2009 and can no longer be used in official matters.
If you don’t have a birth certificate (anymore), you need to request a “beglaubigte Abschrift aus dem Geburtenregister“ (certified copy of the birth register) in the town where you were born.
Typically costs 10-15 EUR, I just requested a copy of mine since I got married abroad and they insisted on it.
You didn’t black out the seal, so I took the liberty to find the contact for you:
https://www.heidelberg.de/hd/HD/Rathaus/Urkunden.html
Complete the form on the bottom (Vordruck Urkundenbestellung, englisch), second page, second item from the top, and email it to the address on the website.
Although the other commenter is right and Geburtsurkunde and Abstammungsurkunde are technically not the same thing, they used to only issue an Abstammungsurkunde, therefore it serves as your birth certificate. You do not need to pay to get another document.
I only have an Abstammungsurkunde myself, same for my partner, and we recently had to use them quite a lot since we had a baby. It’s definitely accepted as a birth certificate. Our baby, btw, was not issued an Abstammungsurkunde, only a Geburtsurkunde. This practice has changed.