Aarburg Parish, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Aarburg 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.



Geography
The historic town and municipality of Aarburg is in the district of Zofingen in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland. It is located along the Aare where it forms the Aarewaage whirlpool. It lies at the bottom of Aarburg hill and Aarburg Castle. It includes the village of Aarburg and industrial sections from the 19th and 20th centuries, along the river.

Aarburg (as of 2009) has an area of 4.42 km² (1.71 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 19.2% - agricultural purposes
 * 31.0% - forested
 * 45.7% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * 3.8% - rivers and lakes
 * 0.2% - non-productive

History
In 1123, Aarburg was first mentioned by the name of Areburc.

The population history of Aarburg is: 1764 - 569 inhabitants 1798 - 1,029 inhabitants 1800 - 1,029 inhabitants 1850 - 1,700 inhabitants 1900 - 2,300 inhabitants 1970 - 5,943 inhabitants 2000 - 6,263 inhabitants 2020 - 8,577 inhabitants

Per the 2000 census:
 * 34.2% were Roman Catholic
 * 36.5% were Swiss Reformed Church
 * 0.38% were Christian Catholic Church

Aarburg was part of the large parish of Zofingen until 1484 and has since formed its own parish. The church, which was destroyed in a fire in 1840, stood on the site of an earlier castle chapel on the ascent to the castle and was rebuilt in 1842-1845.

Church Records
The parish of Aarburg was established in 1484.

Original church records are held onsite at the Aarburg municipal archive. Copies of the following church records are available onsite on microfilm at the Aargau State Archives:
 * Baptisms 1556-1625; marriages 1573-1628; burials 1575-1628
 * Baptisms, marriages, burials 1626-1702
 * Baptisms, marriages, burials 1703-1752
 * Baptisms 1751-1779
 * Baptisms 1780-1816
 * Marriages 1751-1815; confirmations 1751-1834
 * Burials 1751-1816

The following church records are only available onsite at the Aarburg municipal archive.
 * Baptisms 1817-1854
 * Baptisms 1855-1875
 * Baptisms 1877-1903
 * Baptisms non-resident citizens 1776-1875
 * Marriages 1815-1852
 * Marriages 1817-1852
 * Marriages 1852-1875
 * Marriages 1877-1925
 * Marriages non-resident citizens 1817-1875
 * Burials 1817-1875
 * Burials 1850-1875
 * Burials 1877-1896

Later church records are available onsite at the Aarburg parish church office.

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Aarburg:
 * 1837 (images 5-39)
 * 1850: Form A (images 429-471)
 * 1850: Form B (images 472-474)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Aarburg 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 Bern (GHGB)