Lenzburg Parish, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Lenzburg 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 Lenzburg is a town in the central region of the Swiss canton Aargau and is the capital of the Lenzburg District. The town, founded in the Middle Ages, is situated in the Seetal valley, about 3 kilometres south of the Aare river. Lenzburg and the neighboring municipalities of Niederlenz and Staufen have grown together in a cluster.

Lenzburg (as of 2009) has an area of 11.33 km² (4.37 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 21.8% - agricultural purposes
 * 49.6% - forested
 * 28.2% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * 0.5% - either rivers or lakes

History
In 924, Lenzburg was first mentioned by the name of de Lencis.

The population history of Lenzburg is: 1850 - 1,957 inhabitants 1900 - 2,588 inhabitants 1950 - 4,949 inhabitants 2000 - 7,568 inhabitants 2020 - 11,024 inhabitants

Per the 2000 census:
 * 34.5% belonged to the Roman Catholic Church
 * 42.1% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church
 * 0.09% belonged to the Christian Catholic faith

Originally, Lenzburg belonged to the parish of Staufberg, but had a chapel, which developed into a parish church in 1514. In 1528, at the behest of the Bernese government, the Reformation was adopted and in 1565 a separate parish was set up.

Church Records
The parish of Lenzburg was established in 1565 from the parish of Staufen. It includes the municipality of Hendschiken.

The following records are available onsite at the Lenzburg city archive:
 * Baptisms, marriages 1550-1576
 * Baptisms 1607-1657; marriages 1607-1649; burials 1607-1635
 * Baptisms, marriages 1658-1691; burials 1689-1691
 * Baptisms, marriages, burials 1692-1704
 * Baptisms, marriages, burials 1705-1720
 * Baptisms, marriages, burials 1721-1748; confirmations 1729-1747
 * Baptisms, marriages, burials, confirmations 1749-1753
 * Baptisms 1752-1783
 * Baptisms 1784-1815; baptisms non-resident citizens 1817-1875
 * Marriages 1752-1783
 * Marriages 1784-1824; marriages non-resident citizens 1809-1857
 * Burials 1752-1783
 * Burials 1784-1815; burials non-resident citizens 1808-1856
 * Confirmations 1752-1783
 * Confirmations 1784-1861
 * Citizen register 1700-1880

The following church records are available onsite in the Lenzburg civil registration office:
 * Marriages 1817-1852
 * Marriages 1853-1875
 * Marriages, non-resident citizens 1817-1875
 * Burials 1816-1862
 * Burials 1863-1875

Post-1875 church records, as well as the following records, are found onsite at the Lenzburg parish church office:
 * Family book, Othmarsingen 1824
 * Family book, Hendschiken 1825

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Lenzburg:
 * 1837 (images 322-340)
 * 1850: Form A (images 163-212)
 * 1850: Form B (images 213-216)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Lenzburg 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)