Kallern, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Kallern, 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 Kallern is in the district of Muri in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland. It is located on the eastern slope of the Lindenberg. It includes the hamlets of Kallern, Bugler, Hinterbühl, Unter-, Hinter- and Oberniesenberg as well as the farmhouses of Unter- and Oberhöll, Husmatten, and Badhof and other scattered individual houses.

Kallern (as of 2009) has an area of 2.68 km² (1.03 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 77.6% - agricultural purposes
 * 13.4% - forested
 * 9.3% - settled (buildings or roads)

History
In 1303-08, Kallern was first mentioned by the name of Kaltherren.

The population history of Kallern is: 1850 - 329 inhabitants 1900 - 225 inhabitants 1950 - 229 inhabitants 2000 - 264 inhabitants 2020 - 399 inhabitants

Per the 2000 census:
 * 69.7% were Roman Catholic
 * 20.5% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church

It is part of the parish of Boswil-Kallern (except Oberniesenberg, where a chapel was inaugurated in 1962).

Church Records
Kallern belongs to the parish of Boswil (except the village of Oberniesenberg, which is part of the parish of Bettwil). See Boswil for more information.

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Kallern:
 * 1837 (images 534-538)
 * 1850: Form A (images 699-706)
 * 1850: Form B (image 707)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Kallern prior to 1875:

Related sources
The town's website (in German) can be found here.

Libraries and archives
State Archives of Aargau

Societies
Central Swiss Society for Family History (ZGF)