Gansingen Parish, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Gansingen 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 Gansingen is in the district of Laufenburg in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland. It is located in the upper Fricktal. It includes the haufendorf village (an irregular, unplanned and quite closely packed village, built around a central square) of Gansingen and the hamlets of Büren and Galten.

Gansingen (as of 2009) has an area of 8.77 km² (3.39 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 54.0% - agricultural purposes
 * 37.9% - forested
 * 7.8% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * 0.2% - either rivers or lakes

History
In 1240, Gansingen was first mentioned by the name of Gansungen.

The population history of Gansingen is: 1803 - 765 inhabitants 1850 - 1,053 inhabitants 1900 - 723 inhabitants 1950 - 790 inhabitants 2000 - 927 inhabitants 2020 - 1,066 inhabitants

Per the 2000 census:
 * 75.8% were Roman Catholic
 * 15.6% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church

The parish church of St. George was first attested in 1240 and was replaced with a new building in the 19th century. The rights to appoint the parish priest and property rights to the land were in possession of the Collegiate church of Säckingen until 1802.

Church Records
The parish of Gansingen was first mentioned in 1240. The parish church is called St. Georg.

Original church records are located onsite at the Gansingen municipal archive. Microfilm copies of the following church records are available onsite at the Aargau State Archives:
 * Baptisms, marriages, burials 1639-1784; confirmations 1649-1791
 * Baptisms, marriages, burials 1784-1816 (organized by location)
 * Baptisms 1817-1875
 * Marriages 1817-1852
 * Marriages 1853-1875
 * Marriages non-resident citizens 1817-1851
 * Burials 1817-1844
 * Burials 1817-1875

Post-1875 church records, as well as the following church record, are found onsite at the Gansingen parish church office.
 * Baptisms 1817-1875

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Gansingen:
 * 1837 (images 719-736)
 * 1850: Form A (images 351-375)
 * 1850: Form B (image 376)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Gansingen 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)