Schupfart Parish, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Schupfart 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 Schupfart is in the district of Rheinfelden in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland. It is located in Fischingertal.

Schupfart (as of 2009) has an area of 7.04 km² (2.72 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 60.1% - agricultural purposes
 * 32.4% - forested
 * 7.0% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * 0.1% - non-productive (either rivers or lakes)

History
In 1259, Schupfart was first mentioned by the name of Schuphart.

The population history of Schupfart is: 1768 - 253 inhabitants 1850 - 530 inhabitants 1900 - 424 inhabitants 1950 - 488 inhabitants 1975 - 539 inhabitants 1980 - 536 inhabitants 1990 - 558 inhabitants 2000 - 685 inhabitants 2020 - 803 inhabitants

Per the 2000 census:
 * 76.1% belonged to the Roman Catholic Church
 * 14.0% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church
 * 1.76% belonged to the Christian Catholic faith

The collation of the church of Saint-Léger, attested in 1441, refurbished in 1749 and reconstructed in 1796, passed from the margrave of Baden to the abbey of Säckingen in 1576 and to the canton of Aargau in 1803.

Church Records
The parish of Schupfart was first mentioned in 1441; the parish church is called St. Leodegar.

Original church records are located onsite at the Schupfart parish church office or the Schupfart municipal archive. Microfilm copies of the following church records are available onsite at the Aargau State Archives:
 * Baptisms 1610-1709; marriages 1610-1724; burials 1610-1777
 * Baptisms 1704-1817; marriages 1724-1817; confirmations 1712-1865
 * Baptisms 1784-1816

The following church records are only available onsite at the Schupfart municipal archive:
 * Baptisms 1817-1875
 * Marriages 1817-1852
 * Marriages 1853-1875
 * Marriages non-citizen residents 1818-1861
 * Burials 1817-1876

Post-1875 church records, as well as the following church record, are found onsite at the Schupfart parish church office:
 * Marriages 1817-1861

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Schupfart:
 * 1837 (images 644-650)
 * 1850: Form A (images 313-326)
 * 1850: Form B (images 327-328)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Schupfart 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)