Jonen Parish, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Jonen 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 municipality of Jonen is in the district of Bremgarten in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland. It includes the village of Jonen and the hamlets of Obschlagen and Litzi.

Jonen (as of 2006) has an area of 5.7 km² (2.2 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 57.7% - agricultural purposes
 * 30.5% - forested
 * 10% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * 1.8% - non-productive (rivers or lakes)

History
In 1243, Jonen was first mentioned by the name of Jonun.

The population history of Jonen is: 1850 - 788 inhabitants 1900 - 630 inhabitants 1950 - 570 inhabitants 1980 - 800 inhabitants 2000 - 1,569 inhabitants 2020 - 2,210 inhabitants

Per the 2000 census:
 * 56.4% were Roman Catholic
 * 28.4% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church

In the Middle Ages Jonan was part of the Lunkhofen parish. In 1866, it became an independent parish. A Protestant chapel is first attested in 1598 in historic records. It was replaced in 1804 and ruined by fire in 1811, as were two-thirds of the village. It was reconstructed and in 1910 expanded to the tower and the choir. Since 1866, it has served as a parish church. The Reformed residents are part of Bremgarten-Mutschellen parish. The origins of the pilgrimage chapel in Jonental (1521 first mentioned) are unknown.

Church Records
Jonen belonged to the parish of Oberlunkhofen until 1866, when it became an independent parish; the parish church is called Franz Xaver. See Oberlunkhofen for earlier records.

Original church records are located onsite at the [hhttps://www.jonen.ch/ Jonen municipal archive]. Microfilm copies of the following church records are available onsite at the Aargau State Archives:
 * Baptisms 1867-1875
 * Marriages 1867-1875
 * Burials 1867-1875

Post-1875 church records, as well as the following church record, are found onsite at the Jonen parish church office.
 * Baptisms 1867-1905

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Jonen:
 * 1837 (images 739-749)
 * 1850: Form A (images 477-496)
 * 1850: Form B (image 497)

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

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

Libraries and archives
State Archives of Aargau

Societies
Central Swiss Society for Family History (ZGF)