Leuggern Parish, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Leuggern 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 Leuggern is in in the district of Zurzach in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland. The municipality is situated on the western side of the Aare river. It includes the villages of Leuggern, Gippingen, Hettenschwil, and Etzwiland as well as the hamlets of Felsenau, Hagenfirst, Fehrental, and Schlatt.

Leuggern (as of 2009) has an area of 13.76 km² (5.31 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 47.3% - agricultural purposes
 * 37.1% - forested
 * 9.1% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * 6.1% - either rivers or lakes
 * 0.2% - non-productive

History
In 1231, Leuggern was first mentioned by the name of Lutgern.

The population history of Leuggern is: 1850 - 1,193 inhabitants 1900 - 1,013 inhabitants 1950 - 1,374 inhabitants 1980 - 1,672 inhabitants 1990 - 1,981 inhabitants 2000 - 2,192 inhabitants 2020 - 2,180 inhabitants

Per the 2000 census:
 * 65.6% belonged to the Roman Catholic Church
 * 21.5% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church
 * 0.18% belonged to the Christian Catholic faith

The village church is first attested in 1231 when it was one of the possessions of the knights. The territory of the parish corresponded basically to the bailiwick and then to the large commune of Leuggern until 1816, dates on which the commune of Böttstein and that of Oberleibstadt (with Full and Reuenthal) broke away. The Catholic parish retained the same area as the former bailiwick until the division from Leibstadt in 1880. In 1851-53, the church was built in the Neo-Gothic style by Caspar Joseph Jeuch.

Church Records
The parish of Leuggern was first mentioned in 1231; its parish church is called St. Peter und Paul. It includes the municipalities of Böttstein and Full-Reuenthal, and included Leibstadt until 1880.

Original church records are located onsite at the Leuggern municipal archive. Microfilm copies of the following church records are available onsite at the Aargau State Archives:
 * Baptisms 1650-1708; marriages, burials 1650-1777; confirmations 1655-1775
 * Baptisms 1709-1807
 * Baptisms 1808-1816
 * Baptisms 1817-1844
 * Baptisms 1845-1875
 * Marriages, burials 1778-1816; confirmations 1775-1865
 * Marriages 1817-1852
 * Marriages 1853-1875
 * Marriages non-resident citizens 1818-1871
 * Burials 1817-1859
 * Burials 1860-1875

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

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Leuggern:
 * 1837 (images 671-694)
 * 1850: Form A (images 637-665)
 * 1850: Form B (image 666)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Leuggern 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 Zürich (GHGZ)