Oberlunkhofen Parish, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Oberlunkhofen 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 Oberlunkhofen is in district of Bremgarten, in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland. The municipality is situated in the Bremgarten district on a southern ridge of the Heitersberg above the right bank of the Reuss river.

Oberlunkhofen (as of 2006) has an area of 3.3 km² (1.3 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 56.5% - agricultural purposes
 * 24% - forested
 * 15.8% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * 3.6% - non-productive (rivers or lakes)

History
In the 9th century, Oberlunkhofen was first mentioned by the name of Lunchunft, though this record comes from an 11th-century copy of the original, older document. In 1232, it was also mentioned by the name of Lunchuft and in 1309 as obern Lunchuft.

The population history of Oberlunkhofen is: 1850 - 490 inhabitants 1900 - 438 inhabitants 1950 - 413 inhabitants 1980 - 723 inhabitants 2000 - 1,443 inhabitants 2020 - 2,079 inhabitants

Per the 2000 census:
 * 50.7% belonged to the Roman Catholic Church
 * 28.7% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church
 * 0.21% belonged to the Christian Catholic faith

St. Leodegar, the parish church of the Kelleramt, was first attested in 1185. The church belonged to the jurisdiction of St. Leodegar in Lucerne and then Murbach Abbey. In 1291 it went to the Habsburgs, and in 1403 was awarded Muri Abbey which owned it until 1841. The parish consisted of Oberlunkhofen, Unterlunkhofen, Arni, Islisberg, and Rottenschwil. The current parish church was constructed in 1685 on the site of a 1515 church building. The oldest church building on that site likely dates from the 10th century.

Church Records
The parish of Lunkhofen, located in Oberlunkhofen, was first mentioned in 1185; the parish church is called St. Leodegar. It includes the municipalities of Arni, Islisberg, Jonen (until 1866), Rottenschwil, and Unterlunkhofen.

Original church records are located onsite at the Lunkhofen parish church office. Microfilm copies of the following church records are available onsite at the Aargau State Archives:
 * Baptisms 1605-1688 (with gaps)
 * Baptisms 1700-1720 (organized by location)
 * Baptisms 1729-1769; marriages 1722-1769 (with gaps); burials 1712-1769 (with gaps); confirmations 1723-1731
 * Baptisms 1770-1812; marriages, burials 1770-1825; confirmations 1780-1820

The following church records are only available onsite at the Oberlunkhofen municipal archive:
 * Baptisms 1817-1856
 * Baptisms 1857-1875
 * Marriages 1817-1852
 * Marriages 1853-1875
 * Marriages non-resident citizens 1817-1869
 * Burials 1817-1875

Post-1875 church records, as well as the following church record, are found onsite at the Aarau parish church office:
 * Baptisms 1825-1875; marriages 1825-1853; burials 1825-1854; confirmations 1829-1952

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Oberlunkhofen:
 * 1837 (images 9-15)
 * 1850: Form A (images 504-516)
 * 1850: Form B (image 517)

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

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

Libraries and archives
State Archives of Aargau

Societies
Central Swiss Society for Family History (ZGF)