Ennenda Parish, Glarus, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Ennenda Parish, Glarus, Switzerland, ancestry, family history, and genealogy: birth records, marriage records, death records, parish census, civil census, family history, area history, and military records.



Geography
Ennenda is located on the right side of the Linth river at the foot of the Schilt mountain, across from Glarus. It includes the village of Ennenda and the hamlets of Sturmigen, Ennetbühls and the mountain settlement of Ennetberge. As of 2006, Ennenda had an area of 22.2 km2 (8.6 sq mi). The land use is divided as follows:
 * 35.5% is used for agricultural purposes
 * 37.7% is forested
 * 3.8% is settled (buildings or roads)
 * 23% is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains)

History
Ennenda was first recorded around 1303-07 as "Obront-Ennant-A and Nydern-Ennant-A". On 1 January 2011, Ennenda became part of the municipality of Glarus.

The population history of Ennenda is: 1554 - 204 inhabitants 1763 - 1018 inhabitants 1850 - 2313 inhabitants 1870 - 2783 inhabitants 1900 - 2494 inhabitants 1950 - 2940 inhabitants 1960 - 3076 inhabitants 2000 - 2808 inhabitants 2010 - 2684 inhabitants

Until 1395, Ennenda paid taxes to the convent of Säckingen. The inhabitants depended on the parish of Glarus for spiritual needs and joined the Reformation in 1528 and became Protestant. The reformed church was built in 1774. Until 1877, the majority of the inhabitants of Ennetbühls, part of Ennenda, remained faithful to the church of Glarus. The Free Evangelical Church built its own chapel in 1894.

From 1894, Ennenda was part of the school community of Glarus. A school was opened in the parish house in 1786. In 1832, the first school building in the canton opened its doors in Ennenda where in 1880 the town hall was built.

Church Records
Baptism, marriage, and burial records for the parish of Ennenda began in 1775. Before 1775, Ennenda belonged to the parish of Glarus. Information from the church records was extracted by Johann Jakob Kubly-Müller and organized into families. The Glarus Family Tree has made much of this data available online.

Original church records for Canton Glarus are only accessible at the Glarus State Archives.

Civil Registration
Civil registration began in 1849. Ennenda belongs to the Glarus civil registration district. Records are only available in Switzerland. For further information, contact the civil registry office at:

Zivilstandskreis Glarus Postgasse 29 8750 Glarus Tel: +41 55 646 69 50 email: [mailto:zivilstandsamt@gl.ch zivilstandsamt@gl.ch]

Genealogies
(Click here for an article describing Swiss compiled genealogies.)

The Glarus Family Tree is a project which shows the family links between about 200 original families from Glarus. The source of most of this information is the 30-year, 36-volume genealogical masterpiece by Johann Jakob Kubly-Müller. The tree has more than 270,000 individuals can be found online at Geneal-Tree, MyHeritage, Geneanet, and Ancestry.

Related sources
In 2011, Canton Glarus was reorganized into three municipalities. Ennenda is now part of the municipality of Glarus. The municipality website can be accessed here.

Libraries and archives
State Archives of Glarus