Erlinsbach Parish, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Erlinsbach, 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 Erlinsbach is in the district of Aarau of the canton of Aargau in Switzerland. It is situated between the Aare river and Jura Mountains on the border with the Canton of Solothurn. Close by is the Salhöhe Pass, a regionally important route over the Jura Mountains. It includes the village of Erlinsbach and the hamlet of Hard.

Erlinsbach (as of 2006) has an area of 9.9 km² (3.8 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 34.7% - agricultural purposes
 * 53.8% - forested
 * 10.6% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * 0.9% - non-productive (rivers or lakes)

History
In 1173, Erlinsbach was first mentioned by the name of Arnlesbah. It was mentioned as Erndespah in 1220 and in the 14th Century, it was known as Erlispach.

The population history of Erlinsbach is: 1764 - 433 inhabitants 1803 - 523 inhabitants 1850 - 930 inhabitants 1900 - 1,161 inhabitants 1950 - 1,679 inhabitants 1970 - 2,690 inhabitants 2000 - 3,286 inhabitants 2005 - 3,483 inhabitants 2020 - 4,400 inhabitants

Per the 2000 census:
 * 29.1% were Roman Catholic
 * 48.5% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church
 * 0.37% belonged to the Christian Catholic Church

The church of Erlinsbach (1565) was the first church without a choir in Aargau. On the road to Salhöhe was a Saint-Laurent chapel, attested in the 15th century.

Church Records
The Reformed parish of Erlinsbach was established in 1565 from the parish of Kirchberg, located in Küttigen. See Küttigen for earlier records. Original church records are located onsite at the Erlinsbach municipal archive or the Aarau civil registration office. Microfilm copies of the following church records are available onsite at the Aargau State Archives:


 * Baptisms 1580-1590; marriages 1579-1592
 * Baptisms 1591-1672; marriages 1592-1670; burials 1662-1670
 * Baptisms, marriages 1672-1732; burials 1680-1732
 * Baptisms, marriages, burials 1733-1771; confirmations 1737-1771
 * Baptisms 1772-1816
 * Baptisms 1817-1876
 * Marriages, burials 1752-1770
 * Marriages 1772-1816; non-resident citizen banns 1779-1852
 * Marriages 1817-1852
 * Marriages non-resident citizens 1817-1852
 * Marriages 1853-1875
 * Burials 1772-1816
 * Burials 1817-1875
 * Confirmations 1772-1962

The following church records are only available onsite at theErlinsbach municipal archive:
 * Family book 1775-1791
 * Family book 1792-1793
 * Baptisms 1876-1953
 * Marriages 1876-1955
 * Burials 1876-1955

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Erlinsbach:
 * 1837 (images 271-287)
 * 1850: Form A (images 200-223)
 * 1850: Form B (images 224-225)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Erlinsbach 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)