Lungern Parish, Obwalden, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Lungern Parish, Obwalden, 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 Lungern is in the Obwalden canton. It includes the village of Lungern and hamlets of Bürglen, Kaiserstuhl and Obsee. Lundern is located the highest part of the Obwalden canton at an elevation of 750 metres (2,460 ft). It is at the foot of the Brünig Pass on the eastern shore of Lungern Lake. Lungern had an area of 46.33 km² (11,450 acres). The land use was divided up as follows:
 * 55.0% - agricultural purposes
 * 34.5% - forested
 * 3.7% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * 6.3% - unproductive land

Surrounding parishes
Brienzwiler (BE) Giswil Hasliberg (BE) Hofstetten bei Brienz (BE) Kerns Meiringen (BE) Sachseln

Church Records
The church records and family registers for Lungern are located at the Lungern parish office.

Genealogies
In the early 1900s, Ephrem Omlin systematically extracted information for Obwalden parishes and compiled these on family group pages organized by surname and parish. These are available onsite at the Obwalden State Archives. Historian Niklaus von Flüe expanded this collection; his notes are also available onsite at the Obwalden State Archives.

Civil Registration
Civil registration began in 1876. Lungern belongs to the Obwalden civil registration district. Records are only available in Switzerland. For further information, contact the civil registry office at:

Zivilstandsamt Obwalden Brünigstrasse 180a CH - 6060 Sarnen

Tel: +41 666 35 65

email: [mailto:zivilstandsamt@sarnen.ow.ch zivilstandsamt@sarnen.ow.ch]

Duplicate civil registration registers are located at the Obwalden State Archives and are available through 1920. For specific information about duplicate civil registration records, see the archives' online catalog; click the + sign to the left of the folder .02.SCH.Schriften (Zivilstand).

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Lungern prior to 1875:

Related sources
The town's website (in German) can be found here.

Libraries and archives
Obwalden State Archives

Societies
Zentralschweizerische Gesellschaft für Familienforschung (in German)