Kaiserstuhl Parish, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Kaiserstuhl 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 Kaiserstuhl is in the Zurzach district and the Aargau canton. It is located along the Zürich canton border and on the left bank of the Rhine river. At this location, there is a bridge that crosses to the city of Hohentengen in Baden-Württemberg, Germany over the Rhine river.

Kaiserstuhl (as of 2009) has an area of 0.32 km² (0.12 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 34.4% - agricultural purposes
 * 9.4% - forested
 * 43.8% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * 9.4% - rivers or lakes

History
In 1227, Kaiserstuhl was first mentioned by the name of domino Arnoldo de Keiserstul. In 1236 as de Kayserstule. Kaiserstuhl is in the Zurzach district and the Aargau canton.

Kaiserstuhl merged into the Zurzach municipality on 1 January 2022. Other municipalities merged include:
 * Bad Zurzach
 * Baldingen
 * Böbikon
 * Rekingen
 * Rietheim
 * Rümikon
 * Wislikofen

The population history of Kaiserstuhl is: 1837 - 395 inhabitants 1850 - 448 inhabitants 1870 - 332 inhabitants 1900 - 366 inhabitants 1950 - 408 inhabitants 2000 - 434 inhabitants 2010 - 398 inhabitants 2020 - 426 inhabitants 2021 - 420 inhabitants

Per the 2000 census:
 * 28.8% were Roman Catholic
 * 44.9% were Swiss Reformed Church

In 1255, Kaiserstuhl belonged to the Hohentengen parish. In 1366, the Sainte-Catherine church was mentioned. In 1530, the Reformation was adopted.

Church Records
The parish of Kaiserstuhl was first mentioned in the 1400s; the parish church was originally on the north side of the river until the church of St. Katharina was built in 1842. The land north of the Rhine River was part of Kaiserstuhl until 1798, when those areas went to Germany, forming the new municipality of Hohentengen. In 1842, Kaiserstuhl and the municipality of Fisibach was transferred from Hohentengen, forming a new parish. See Hohentengen am Hochrein for earlier records.

The following church records, as well as all post-1875 records, are available onsite in the Kaiserstuhl parish church office:
 * Baptisms 1759-1812 (extracted from Hohentengen records)
 * Baptisms 1817-1824

The following church records are available onsite in the Zurzach city archive:
 * Baptisms 1817-1875
 * Marriages 1817-1853
 * Marriages 1853-1875
 * Marriages non-resident citizens 1817-1875
 * Burials 1817-1875

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Kaiserstuhl:
 * 1837 (images 650-656)
 * 1850: Form A (images 522-533)
 * 1850: Form B (image 534)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Kaiserstuhl 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)