Klingnau Parish, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Klingnau 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.



Church Records
The parish of Klingnau was first mentioned in 1360; its parish church is called St. Katharina. It included Döttingen until 1848, Koblenz until 1927, and Würenlingen until 1779

The following church records are only available onsite at the Klingnau parish church office:
 * Baptisms 1614-1695; marriages 1608-1711; burials 1611-1665, 1673-1711; confirmations 1653-1692
 * Baptisms 1817-1875

The following church records are only available onsite at the Klingnau city archive:
 * Baptisms, marriages, burials 1712-1805; confirmations 1705-1780
 * Baptisms, marriages, burials 1806-1832 (organized by location); confirmations 1808-1839, 1846-1865
 * Baptisms 1817-1847
 * Baptisms 1848-1875
 * Marriages 1817-1852
 * Marriages 1853-1875
 * Marriages non-resident citizens 1817-1874
 * Burials 1817-1863
 * Burials 1864-1875

Post-1875 church records are found onsite at the Klingnau parish church office.

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Klingnau:
 * 1837 (images 632-650)
 * 1850: Form A (images 535-566)
 * 1850: Form B (images 567-568)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Klingnau 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)