Zuzgen Parish, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Zuzgen 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 Zuzgen is in the Rheinfelden district and the Aargau canton. It is located in the mid-reaches of the Möhlin valley. Neighbouring villages in are Zeiningen to the Northwest, Mumpf to the North, Obermumpf to the Northeast, and Hellikon to the Southeast.

Zuzgen (as of 2009) has an area of 8.39 km² (3.24 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 59.2% - agricultural purposes
 * 34.4% - forested
 * 5.4% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * 0.1% - rivers or lakes

History
In 1288, Zuzgen was first mentioned. Zuzgen is in the Rheinfelden district and the Aargau canton.

The population history of Zuzgen is: 1768 - 308 inhabitants 1850 - 775 inhabitants 1900 - 606 inhabitants 1930 - 575 inhabitants 1950 - 587 inhabitants 1960 - 624 inhabitants 1975 - 620 inhabitants 1980 - 576 inhabitants 1990 - 651 inhabitants 2000 - 736 inhabitants 2020 - 881 inhabitants

Per the 2000 census:
 * 54.2% were Roman Catholic
 * 27.2% were Swiss Reformed Church
 * 6.86% were Christian Catholic Church
 * 1.2% were Muslim Church

Zuzgen belonged to the Säckingen parish. In 1737, the St. George's Church was rebuilt. In 1873, a Catholic-Christian parish was formed. In 1900, the Saint George Catholic parish was built.

Church Records
The parish of Zuzgen was first mentioned in 1288; the parish church is called St. Georg.

Original church records are located onsite at the Rheinfelden civil registration office. Microfilm copies of the following church records are available onsite at the Aargau State Archives:
 * Baptisms 1647-1784; marriages 1648-1775; burials 1648-1776; confirmations 1649-1810
 * Baptisms 1784-1816 (organized by location); confirmations 1830-1885; first communions 1834-1863
 * Baptisms 1817-1875
 * Marriages 1784-1816 (organized by location)
 * Marriages 1817-1853
 * Marriages 1853-1875
 * Marriages non-resident citizens 1818-1852
 * Burials 1784-1816 (organized by location)
 * Burials 1817-1875

Post-1875 church records, as well as the following church record, are found onsite at the Zuzgen parish church office:
 * Marriages Niederhofen 1785-1788; banns 1829-1864

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Zuzgen:
 * 1837 (images 701-710)
 * 1850: Form A (images 405-423)
 * 1850: Form B (images 424-425)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Zuzgen 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)