Riniken, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Riniken, 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 Riniken is in the district of Brugg in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland. Originally a lineal village, Riniken today consists of the old village and Neuriniken.

Riniken (as of 2009) has an area of 4.75 km² (1.83 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 30.5% - agricultural purposes
 * 56.8% - forested
 * 12.4% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * 0.2% - non-productive

History
In 1253, Riniken was first mentioned by the name of Rinikon.

The population history of Riniken is: 1764 - 213 inhabitants 1831 - 424 inhabitants 1850 - 338 inhabitants 1888 - 272 inhabitants 1900 - 291 inhabitants 1950 - 300 inhabitants 1970 - 947 inhabitants 2000 - 1,369 inhabitants 2020 - 1,482 inhabitants

Per the 2000 census:
 * 30.4% belonged to the Roman Catholic Church
 * 52.1% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church

Spiritually, Riniken belonged to the Umiken parish. In 1967, the village obtained a private cemetery, and in 1978 an ecumenical ecclesiastical center.

Church Records
Riniken belongs to the parish of Umiken. See Umiken for more information.

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Riniken:
 * 1837 (images 318-320)
 * 1850: Form A (images 324-332)
 * 1850: Form B (images 333-334)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Riniken 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)