Luchsingen Parish, Glarus, Switzerland Genealogy

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



Geography
Luchsingen is located on the west bank of the Linth river in the valley. Its elevation is 572 m (1,877 ft). Hätzingen is to the south across the river and Leuggelbach is to the north. Oberblegisee lake is in a valley above Luchsingen to the west.

Luchsingen has an area of 30.7 km² (11.9 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 31.8% - forested
 * 26.9% - agricultural purposes
 * 2.0% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * 39.4% - non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains)

History
The first mention of Luchsingen was in 1274 using the name of Luchsingen. In 2004, the municipality of Luchsingen was expanded to include the former municipalities of Hätzingen and Diesbach. Luchsingen became part of the Glarus Süd municipality on 1 January 2011. Other localities merged include:
 * Betschwanden
 * Braunwald
 * Elm
 * Engi
 * Haslen (GL)
 * Linthal
 * Matt
 * Mitlödi
 * Rüti (GL)
 * Schwanden (GL)
 * Schwändi
 * Sool

The population history of Luchsingen is: 1850 - 652 inhabitants 1900 - 789 inhabitants 1950 - 768 inhabitants 2000 - 592 inhabitants 2003 - 572 inhabitants 2004 - 1,136 inhabitants 2010 - 1,119 inhabitants

Church Records
Baptism, marriage, and burial records for the parish of Luchsingen began in 1752. Before 1752, Luchsingen belonged to the parishes of Betschwanden and Schwanden. Information from the church records was extracted by Johann Jakob Kubly-Müller and organized into families. The Glarus Family Tree has made much of this data available online.

Original church records for Canton Glarus are only accessible at the Glarus State Archives.

Civil Registration
Civil registration began in 1849. Luchsingen belongs to the Glarus civil registration district. Records are only available in Switzerland. For further information, contact the civil registry office at:

Zivilstandskreis Glarus Postgasse 29 8750 Glarus Tel: +41 55 646 69 50 email: [mailto:zivilstandsamt@gl.ch zivilstandsamt@gl.ch]

Genealogies
(Click here for an article describing Swiss compiled genealogies.)

The Glarus Family Tree is a project which shows the family links between about 200 original families from Glarus. The source of most of this information is the 30-year, 36-volume genealogical masterpiece by Johann Jakob Kubly-Müller. The tree has more than 270,000 individuals can be found online at Geneal-Tree, MyHeritage, Geneanet, and Ancestry.

Related sources
In 2011, Canton Glarus was reorganized into three municipalities. Luchsingen is now part of the Glarus Süd municipality. The municipality website can be accessed here.

Libraries and archives
State Archives of Glarus