Lupfig, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Lupfig, 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 former municipality of Lupfig is in the Brugg district and the Aargau canton. It is located between the Aare and the Reuss and is contiguous to that of Birr.

Lupfig (as of 2009) has an area of 5.15 km² (1.99 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 48.9% - agricultural purposes
 * 23.7% - forested
 * 26.8% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * 0.4% - rivers or lakes

History
In 1273, Lupfig was first mentioned by the name of Lupfanch. Lupfig is in the Brugg district and the Aargau canton.

On 1 January 2018, the Scherz municipality merged into the Lupfig municipality.

The population history of Lupfig is: 1764 - 363 inhabitants 1850 - 736 inhabitants 1900 - 582 inhabitants 1950 - 637 inhabitants 1975 - 913 inhabitants 1980 - 963 inhabitants 1990 - 1,355 inhabitants 2000 - 1,819 inhabitants 2010 - 2,175 inhabitants 2018 - 3,113 inhabitants 2020 - 12,679 inhabitants

Per the 2000 census:
 * 32.2% were Roman Catholic
 * 49.1% were Swiss Reformed Church
 * 0.27% were Christian Catholic Church

Until 1526, Lupfig was part of the Windisch parish. In 1715, Lupfig became a parish.

Church Records
Lupfig belongs to the parish of Birr. See Birr for more information.

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Lupfig:
 * 1837 (images 269-277)
 * 1850: Form A (images 220-237]
 * 1830: Form B (image 238)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Lupfig 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 Bern (GHGB)