Staufen Parish, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Staufen 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 Staufen is in the Lenzburg district and the Aargau canton. It is located at the eastern foot of the Staufberg.

Staufen (as of 2009) has an area of 3.57 km² (1.38 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 40.1% - agricultural purposes
 * 31.7% - forested
 * 26.6% - settled (buildings or roads)

History
In 1101, Staufen was first mentioned by the name of Stoufen. Staufen is in the Lenzburg district and the Aargau canton.

The population history of Staufen is: 1764 - 276 inhabitants 1850 - 758 inhabitants 1900 - 818 inhabitants 1950 - 1,325 inhabitants 1960 - 1,880 inhabitants 1975 - 1,963 inhabitants 1980 - 2,095 inhabitants 1990 - 2,196 inhabitants 2000 - 2,188 inhabitants 2020 - 4,068 inhabitants

Per the 2000 census:
 * 27.2% were Roman Catholic
 * 54.9% were Swiss Reformed Church

In the 10th century, Saint-Laurent church was mentioned. In 1419, the church was rebuilt. The Staufen parish included Schafisheim, Niederlenz, part of Dottikon (left in 1531), Lenzburg, Hendschiken, Möriken and part of Othmarsingen (left in 1565).

Church Records
The parish of Staufberg, located in Staufen, was first mentioned in the tenth century. It includes the municipalities of Schafisheim, the northern part of Othmarsingen (until 1873), and Niederlenz (until 1990). It also included Lenzburg until 1565, when it became an independent parish.

Original church records are located onsite at the Staufen municipal archive. Microfilm copies of the following church records are available onsite at the Aargau State Archives:
 * Baptisms 1607-1700
 * Baptisms 1700-1737; marriages, burials 1711-1752
 * Baptisms 1738-1752; confirmations 1735-1751
 * Baptisms 1752-1769
 * Baptisms 1769-1788
 * Baptisms 1788-1815; baptisms non-resident citizens 1752-1815
 * Baptisms 1816-1833
 * Baptisms 1834-1850
 * Baptisms 1851-1875
 * Baptisms, non-resident citizens 1780-1842
 * Marriages 1752-1801
 * Marriages 1802-1826
 * Marriages 1817-1852
 * Marriages 1853-1875
 * Marriages non-resident citizens 1817-1874
 * Burials 1752-1785
 * Burials 1786-1816
 * Burials 1817-1850
 * Burials 1851-1875

The following church records are only available onsite at the Staufen municipal archive:
 * Family book Staufen, Niederlenz, and Schafisheim 1796-1840

Post-1875 church records, as well as post-1752 confirmation records, are found onsite at the Staufberg parish church office.

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Staufen:
 * 1837 (images 306-322)
 * 1850: Form A (images 475-493)
 * 1850: Form B (image 494)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Staufen 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)