Rekingen, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Rekingen, 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 Rekingen is in the Zurzach district and the Aargau canton. It is located near the Böbikon valley along the Rhine river. The municipality of Bekingen includes the haufendorf village (unplanned and closely packed village built around a central square) of Rekingen.

Rekingen (as of 2009) has an area of 3.1 km² (1.2 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 13.9% - agricultural purposes
 * 57.4% - forested
 * 25.5% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * 3.9% - rivers or lakes

History
In 1261, Rekingen was first mentioned by the name of Rechunch. Rekingen is in the Zurzach district and the Aargau canton.

Rekingen merged into the Zurzach municipality on 1 January 2022. Other municipalities merged include:
 * Bad Zurzach
 * Baldingen
 * Böbikon
 * Kaiserstuhl
 * Rietheim
 * Rümikon
 * Wislikofen

The population history of Rekingen is: 1780 - 259 inhabitants 1850 - 348 inhabitants 1900 - 270 inhabitants 1950 - 710 inhabitants 1990 - 877 inhabitants 2000 - 998 inhabitants 2010 - 983 inhabitants 2020 - 969 inhabitants 2021 - 979 inhabitants

Per the 2000 census:
 * 41.2% were Roman Catholic
 * 33.8% were Swiss Reformed Church
 * 0.20% were Christian Catholic Church

At the Reformation, a new faith was adopted by the majority of the inhabitants.

Church Records
Rekingen belonged to the Reformed parish of Zurzach until 1878. See Zurzach for more information.

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Rekingen:
 * 1837 (images 706-714)
 * 1850: Form A (images 689-697)
 * 1850: Form B (images 698-699)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Rekingen 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)