Rheinfelden Parish, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Rheinfelden Parish, Aargau, Switzerland, ancestry, family history, and genealogy: birth records, marriage records, death records, parish census, civil census, family history, area history, and military records.



Catholic
The parish of Rheinfelden was first mentioned in the tenth century. The parish church is called St. Josef.

The following church records are available onsite in the Rheinfelden city archive:
 * Baptisms 1579-1677
 * Baptisms 1678-1779
 * Baptisms 1780-1855
 * Baptisms 1817-1856
 * Baptisms 1856-1875
 * Marriages 1579-1784
 * Marriages 1784-1855
 * Marriages 1817-1853
 * Marriages 1853-1875
 * Marriages non-resident citizens 1817-1875
 * Burials 1784-1714
 * Burials 1714-1784
 * Burials 1785-1855
 * Burials 1817-1867
 * Burials 1868-1875

Post-1875 church records are found onsite at the Rheinfelden Catholic parish church office.

Reformed
A Reformed parish was created in 1900, with records first being kept in 1865. The following church records are only available onsite at the Rheinfelden city archive:
 * Baptisms 1865-1875
 * Marriages 1865-1875; marriages non-resident citizens 1865-1875
 * Burials 1865-1875

Post-1875 church records are found onsite at the Rheinfelden Reformed parish church office.

Census
(See here for information regarding Aargau census records.)

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Rheinfelden:
 * 1837 (images 612-640)
 * 1850: Form A (images 264-310)
 * 1850: Form B (images 311-312)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Rheinfelden prior to 1875:

Related sources
The town's website (in German) can be found here.

Libraries and archives
State Archives of Aargau

Societies
Genealogical-Heraldic Society of Region Basel (GHGRB)