Rupperswil Parish, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Rupperswil 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 Rupperswil is in the district of Lenzburg in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland. It is situated south of the Aare river. It includes the haufendorf village (an irregular, unplanned and quite closely packed village, built around a central square) of Rupperswil.

Rupperswil (as of 2009) has an area of 6.21 km² (2.40 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 29.8% - agricultural purposes
 * 36.9% - forested
 * 28.8% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * 3.4% - either rivers or lakes
 * 0.2% - non-productive

History
In 1173, Rupperswil was first mentioned by the name of Rubeswile.

The population history of Rupperswil is: 1764 - 308 inhabitants 1798 - 576 inhabitants 1850 - 993 inhabitants 1900 - 1,095 inhabitants 1950 - 1,998 inhabitants 1970 - 2,947 inhabitants 2000 - 3,770 inhabitants 2020 - 5,618 inhabitants

Per the 2000 census:
 * 25.7% belonged to the Roman Catholic Church
 * 53.3% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church
 * 0.13% belonged to the Christian Catholic faith

Spiritually, Rupperswil belonged to the parish of Suhr until 1681 when it formed its own parish. In 1528, it adopted the Reformation. The chapel, donated by the villagers between 1275 and 1370, was enhanced with a chancel and tower around 1500. In 1921-22, a new building followed the old church.

Church Records
The parish of Rupperswil was established in 1681 from the parish of Suhr. See Suhr for earlier records.

Original church records are located onsite at the Rupperswil municipal archive. Microfilm copies of the following church records are available onsite at the Aargau State Archives:
 * Baptisms, marriages, burials 1681-1752
 * Baptisms 1752-1794
 * Baptisms 1795-1810
 * Baptisms 1811-1816
 * Baptisms 1817-1875
 * Marriages 1752-1810
 * Marriages 1811-1816; banns 1817-1852
 * Marriages 1817-1852
 * Burials 1752-1810
 * Burials 1811-1816
 * Burials 1817-1875

The following records are available onsite at the Rupperswil municipal archive:
 * Marriages 1853-1875
 * Burials 1851-1903

Post-1875 church records, as well as the following records, are found onsite at the Rupperswil parish church office:
 * Marriages, non-resident citizens 1817-1875
 * Confirmations 1752-1810
 * Confirmations 1811-1962
 * Family book 1819-1855

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Rupperswil:
 * 1837 (images 219-237)
 * 1850: Form A (images 329-354)
 * 1850: Form B (images 355-357)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Rupperswil 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)