Döttingen Parish, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Döttingen 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 Döttingen is in the district of Zurzach in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland. It is located at the confluence of the Surb river into the Aare river. Along with Klingnau, it forms a regional center in the lower Aare valley. It includes the haufendorf village (an irregular, unplanned and quite closely packed village, built around a central square) of Döttingen and the hamlets of Kleindöttingen.

Döttingen (as of 2009) has an area of 6.92 km² (2.67 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 32.5% - agricultural purposes
 * 34.8% - forested
 * 26.2% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * 6.8% - either rivers or lakes
 * 0.1% - non-productive

History
In 1239, Döttingen was first mentioned by the name of Totingen. It was also known as Grossdöttingen until the 19th Century.

The population history of Döttingen is: 1799 - 825 inhabitants 1850 - 1,098 inhabitants 1900 - 974 inhabitants 1950 - 1,738 inhabitants 1970 - 3,380 inhabitants 1990 - 3,298 inhabitants 2000 - 3,241 inhabitants 2020 - 4,244 inhabitants

Per the 2000 census:
 * 57.5% were Roman Catholic
 * 15.9% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church
 * 0.34% belonged to the Christian Catholic Church

It was part of the Klingnau parish until the formation of a separate parish in 1848. In 1961, the Catholic Church of St. John was constructed.

Church Records
Döttingen belonged to the parish of Klingnau unil 1848, when its church, St. Johannes Evangelist, became a separate parish. See Klingnau for earlier records.

The following church records are available onsite in the Leuggern civil registration office:
 * Baptisms 1850-1875
 * Marriages 1851-1875
 * Marriages, non-resident citizens 1851-1871
 * Burials 1850-1875

Post-1875 church records are found onsite at the Döttingen parish church office.

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Döttingen:
 * 1837 (images 562-581)
 * 1850: Form A (images 412-438)
 * 1850: Form B (images 439-440)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Döttingen 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 Zürich (GHGZ)