Aarau Parish, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Aarau 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 LOCATION (Romansh: NAME) is in the NAME Region and the NAME canton. It is located DETAILS. OTHERDETAILS

LOCATION (as of YEAR) has an area of NUMBER km² (NUMBER square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * PERCENT% - agricultural purposes
 * PERCENT% - forested
 * PERCENT% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * PERCENT% - non-productive

History
In DATE, LOCATION was first mentioned by the name of NAME. Before 2017, LOCATION (Romansh: NAME) is in the NAME district and the NAME canton. After DATE, LOCATION became part of the NAME Region. OTHERDETAILS

LOCATION merged into the Aarau municipality at the beginning of 2010. Other municipalities merged include:
 * Aarau
 * Rohr

The population history of LOCATION is: 1700 - NUMBER inhabitants 1750 - NUMBER inhabitants 1800 - NUMBER inhabitants 1850 - NUMBER inhabitants 1860 - NUMBER inhabitants 1870 - NUMBER inhabitants 1880 - NUMBER inhabitants 1890 - NUMBER inhabitants 1900 - NUMBER inhabitants 1910 - NUMBER inhabitants 1920 - NUMBER inhabitants 1930 - NUMBER inhabitants 1940 - NUMBER inhabitants 1950 - NUMBER inhabitants 1960 - NUMBER inhabitants 1970 - NUMBER inhabitants 1980 - NUMBER inhabitants 1990 - NUMBER inhabitants 2000 - NUMBER inhabitants 2010 - NUMBER inhabitants 2014 - NUMBER inhabitants 2018 - NUMBER inhabitants 2020 - NUMBER inhabitants

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

In DATE, CHURCHDETAILS Until DATE, CHURCHDETAILS OTHERDETAILS

Catholic
The Catholic parish of Peter und Paul was established in Aarau in 1803, and serviced much over twenty surrounding municipalities. The following church records are available onsite in the Aarau civil registration office:
 * Baptisms 1803-1852; marriages 1803-1820, 1835-1875; burials 1804-1875; banns 1817-1875; confirmations 1829-1865
 * Baptisms 1817-1875
 * Marriages 1817-1852
 * Marriages 1853-1875
 * Marriages non-resident citizens 1817-1875
 * Burials 1817-1875

Post-1875 church records are found onsite at the Aarau Catholic parish church office.

Reformed
Originally part of Suhr, Aarau became Reformed in the 1530s. Aarau was established as an independent parish in 1568.

The following church records are available onsite in the Aarau city archive:
 * Baptisms 1534-1544
 * Baptisms, marriages 1544-1553; burials 1549-1553
 * Baptisms 1555-1592
 * Baptisms 1592-1646; marriages 1614-1646
 * Baptisms 1598-1621
 * Baptisms 1626-1681; marriages 1629-1683
 * Baptisms 1646-1721; marriages 1647-1713; burials 1673-1715; confirmations 1668-1720
 * Baptisms 1682-1749; marriages 1684-1750; burials 1682-1749; confirmations 1682-1750
 * Baptisms 1721-1734, 1750-1786; marriages, burials 1721-1734
 * Baptisms 1750-1800
 * Baptisms 1787-1807
 * Baptisms 1808-1816; baptisms non-resident citizens 1812-1875
 * Marriages 1750-1827
 * Burials 1750-1810
 * Burials 1811-1816

The following church records are available onsite in the Aarau civil registration office:
 * Baptisms 1801-1824
 * Baptisms 1817-1838
 * Baptisms 1839-1858
 * Baptisms 1859-1874
 * Baptisms 1874-1875
 * Marriages 1817-1849
 * Marriages non-resident citizens 1817-1875
 * Marriage announcements 1828-1852; divorces 1829-1875
 * Marriages 1850-1852
 * Marriages 1853-1875
 * Burials 1817-1853
 * Burials 1854-1871
 * Burials 1872-1875

Post-1875 church records are found onsite at the Aarau parish church office.

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Aarau:
 * 1837 (images 5-86)
 * 1850: Form A (images 6-116)
 * 1850: Form B (images 117-126)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Aarau 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)