Unterendingen Parish, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Unterendingen 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 former municipality of Unterendingen is in the Zurzach district and the Aargau canton. It is located perpendicular to the Surb valley.

Unterendingen (as of 2014) has an area of 3.5 km² (1.4 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 53.5% - agricultural purposes
 * 37.9% - forested
 * 8.1% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * 0.3% - rivers or lakes

History
In 798, Unterendingen was first mentioned by the name of Entingas. In 1298 as Nider-Endingen. Unterendingen is in the Zurzach district and the Aargau canton.

On 1 January 2014, the municipality of Unterendingen merged into the Endingen municipality.

The population history of Unterendingen is: 1799 - 201 inhabitants 1850 - 254 inhabitants 1860 - 208 inhabitants 1870 - 217 inhabitants 1880 - 204 inhabitants 1890 - 168 inhabitants 1900 - 154 inhabitants 1910 - 147 inhabitants 1920 - 148 inhabitants 1930 - 152 inhabitants 1940 - 143 inhabitants 1950 - 159 inhabitants 1960 - 149 inhabitants 1970 - 150 inhabitants 1975 - 127 inhabitants 1980 - 195 inhabitants 1990 - 329 inhabitants 2000 - 375 inhabitants 2011 - 364 inhabitants

Per the 2000 census:
 * 50.1% were Roman Catholic
 * 34.5% were Swiss Reformed Church
 * 0.54% were Christian Catholic Church

Spiritually, Unterendingen belonged to the parish of Zurzach. In 1257, a chapel is mentioned. It was restored in 1604. In 1661, the Saint-Georges church was consecrated. It was replaced with a new chapel in 1824. Since 1663, the catholics formed the Unterendingen parish. The protestants belonged to the parish of Tegerfelden.

Catholic
Majority Catholic, Unterendingen was part of Zurzach until 1663, when it was established as an independent parish. The parish church is called St. Georg. It includes the municipalites of Endingen and Tegerfelden. See Zurzach for earlier records.

Original church records are located onsite at the Unterendingen church parish office. Microfilm copies of the following church records are available onsite at the Aargau State Archives:
 * Baptisms 1663-1744; marriages 1671-1744; burials 1665-1744 (with gaps); confirmations 1659-1742
 * Baptisms, marriages, burials 1745-1817
 * Baptisms 1817-1875
 * Marriages 1817-1852
 * Marriages 1853-1875
 * Marriages non-resident citizens 1821-1875
 * Burials 1817-1875

Post-1875 church records, as well as the following church records, are found onsite at the Unterendingen church parish office.
 * Baptisms, marriages 1817-1837; confirmations 1749-1933
 * Family book 1827-1912

Reformed
Reformed residents belong to the parish of Tegerfelden.

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Unterendingen:
 * 1837 (images 668-671)
 * 1850: Form A (images 490-496)
 * 1850: Form B (images 497-498)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Unterendingen 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)