Fislisbach Parish, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Fislisbach 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 Fislisbach is in the district of Baden in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland. It is located at the foot of the Heitersberg. It includes the linear village of Fislisbach and scattered single and multi-family housing developments.

Fislisbach (as of 2006) has an area of 5.1 km² (2.0 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 47.5% - agricultural purposes
 * 30.6% - forested
 * 22% - settled (buildings or roads)

History
In 1184, Fislisbach was first mentioned by the name of Vicelisbach.

The population history of Fislisbach is: 1799 - 342 inhabitants 1850 - 685 inhabitants 1900 - 676 inhabitants 1950 - 1,334 inhabitants 1970 - 3,370 inhabitants 1975 - 3,733 inhabitants 1980 - 3,882 inhabitants 1990 - 4,438 inhabitants 2000 - 4,974 inhabitants 2020 - 5,578 inhabitants

Per the 2000 census:
 * 53.7% were Roman Catholic
 * 26.1% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church
 * 0.26% belonged to the Christian Catholic Church

In 1522, the parish adopted the Reformation under the influence of pastor Urban Wyss, a friend of Zwingli; it returned to Catholicism in 1531/1532.

Church Records
The parish of Fislisbach was mentioned before the Reformation, which briefly came to the parish between 1522-1532. The parish church is St. Agatha.

Original church records are located onsite at the Fislisbach municipal archive. Microfilm copies of the following church records are available onsite at the Aargau State Archives:
 * Baptisms, burials 1644-1814; marriages 1658-1814; confirmations 1646-1808; family book 1814-1867
 * Baptisms 1817-1875; baptisms non-resident citizens 1864-1875
 * Marriages 1853-1875
 * Burials 1817-1875

Post-1875 church records, as well as the following church records, are found onsite at the Fislisbach parish church office.
 * Marriages 1817-1852
 * Marriages non-resident citizens 1830-1845

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Fislisbach:
 * 1837 (images 439-451)
 * 1850: Form A (images 692-708)
 * 1850: Form B (images 709-710)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Fislisbach 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)