Stein Parish, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Stein 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 municipality of Stein is in the district of Rheinfelden in the canton of Aargau, Switzerland. The town is located across the Rhine River from Bad Säckingen in the German state of Baden-Württemberg. Two bridges join the two cities, one vehicular (Fridolinsbrücke) and the other, the Holzbrücke pedestrian bridge.

Stein (as of 2009) has an area of 2.81 km² (1.08 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 28.5% - agricultural purposes
 * 22.1% - forested
 * 39.1% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * 10.3% - non-productive (either rivers or lakes)

History
In 1276, Stein was first mentioned by the name of stone.

The population history of Stein is: 1768 - 149 inhabitants 1850 - 375 inhabitants 1900 - 566 inhabitants 1950 - 756 inhabitants 1975 - 1,777 inhabitants 1980 - 1,781 inhabitants 1990 - 1,926 inhabitants 2000 - 2,375 inhabitants 2020 - 3,253 inhabitants

Per the 2000 census:
 * 45.6% belonged to the Roman Catholic Church
 * 28.5% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church
 * 1.24% belonged to the Christian Catholic faith

The collation of the Sainte-Christine church (mentioned in 1329, rebuilt in 1823-1824) belonged to Säckingen, then to the canton of Aargau.

Church Records
The parish of Stein was first mentioned in 1329; the parish church is called Bruder Klaus.

Original church records are located onsite at the Stein parish church office or the Stein municipal archive. Microfilm copies of the following church records are available onsite at the Aargau State Archives:
 * Baptisms 1646-1764; marriages, burials 1680-1765; confirmations 1693-1750
 * Baptisms, marriages, burials 1763-1816; marriages 1873-1875; confirmations 1765-1860
 * Baptisms 1784-1815; marriages, burials 1810-1815
 * Marriages 1784-1811
 * Marriages 1853-1875
 * Burials 1784-1811
 * Burials 1817-1875

Post-1875 church records, as well as the following church record, are found onsite at the Stein parish church office:
 * Baptisms 1817-1875; marriages 1817-1851; marriages non-resident citizens 1818-1875

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Stein:
 * 1837 (images 650-656)
 * 1850: Form A (images 329-338)
 * 1850: Form B (image 339)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Stein 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 Region Basel (GHGRB)