Bünzen Parish, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Bünzen 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.



Church Records
The parish of Bünzen was first mentioned in 1328; the parish church is called St. Georg. It includes the municipalities of Besenbüren and Waldhäusern.
 * 1418-1996 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index and images

Original church records are located onsite at the Dottikon municipal archive. Microfilm copies of the following church records are available onsite at the Aargau State Archives:
 * Baptisms, marriages, burials 1733-1819 (organized by location)
 * Baptisms 1818-1875; marriages, deaths 1818-1859
 * Confirmations 1723-1742
 * Family book 1773-1795
 * Family book 1789-1797
 * Family book 1783-1857

The following church records are only available onsite at the Bünzen municipal archive:
 * Baptisms 1817-1875
 * Marriages 1817-1852; marriages non-resident citizens 1817-1856
 * Marriages 1853-1875
 * Burials 1817-1875

Post-1875 church records, as well as the following church records, are found onsite at the Bünzen parish church office.
 * Family book Bünzen 1825-1904
 * Family book Besenbüren 1825-1916
 * Family book Waldhäusern and Unterniesenburg 1825-1911

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

Waldhäusern was a separate municipality until 1940, when it became part of Bünzen. During these censuses, it was enumerated separately. The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Bünzen and Waldhäusern:

Bünzen

 * 1837 (images 488-494)
 * 1850: Form A (images 644-654)
 * 1850: Form B (images 655-656)

Waldhäusern

 * 1837 (499-501)
 * 1850: Form A (images 81-84)
 * 1850: Form B (image 85)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Bünzen 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)