Hornussen Parish, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Hornussen 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 former municipality of Hornussen is in the Laufenburg district and the Aargau canton. It is located in the Frick river valley. It includes the linear village of Hornussen.

Hornussen (as of 2009) has an area of 7.27 km² (2.81 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 49.0% - agricultural purposes
 * 39.9% - forested
 * 11.3% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * 0.6% - rivers or lakes

History
In 1281, Hornussen was first mentioned by the name of Hornescon. Hornussen is in the Laufenburg district and the Aargau canton.

Hornussen merged into the Böztal municipality on 1 January 2022. Other municipalities merged include:
 * Bözen
 * Effingen
 * Elfingen

The population history of Hornussen is: 1768 - 387 inhabitants 1850 - 766 inhabitants 1900 - 590 inhabitants 1950 - 631 inhabitants 2000 - 816 inhabitants 2010 - 876 inhabitants 2020 - 1,021 inhabitants

Per the 2000 census:
 * 54.5% were Roman Catholic
 * 26.8% were Swiss Reformed Church
 * 0.49% were Christian Catholic Church

In 1710, the Saint-Maurice church was built.

Church Records
The parish of Hornussen has existed since at least the 1600s; its parish church is called St. Mauritius.

Original church records are located onsite at the Böztal municipal archive. Microfilm copies of the following church records are available onsite at the Aargau State Archives:
 * Baptisms, marriages, burials 1784-1821
 * Baptisms 1817-1875
 * Marriages 1817-1852
 * Marriages 1853-1875
 * Marriages non-resident citizens 1820-1849
 * Burials 1817-1875

The following church record is only available onsite at the Böztal municipal archive:
 * Baptisms 1704-1781; marriages, burials 1704-1784; confirmations 1718-1751

Post-1875 church records, as well as the following church record, are found onsite at the Hornussen parish church office.
 * Baptisms 1781-1875; burials 1785-1786; confirmations 1791-1865

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Hornussen:
 * 1837 (images 767-782)
 * 1850: Form A (images 431-449)
 * 1850: Form B (images 450-451)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Hornussen 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)