Würenlingen Parish, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Würenlingen 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 Würenlingen is in the Baden district and the Aargau canton. It is located between the Siggenberg and the Aare. The municipality of Würenlingen includes the village-street of Würenlingen and new districts.

Würenlingen (as of 2006) has an area of 9.4 km² (3.6 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 29.2% - agricultural purposes
 * 49.4% - forested
 * 19.2% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * 2.2% - non-productive

History
In 828, Würenlingen was first mentioned by the name of Wiraningum. Würenlingen is in the Baden district and the Aargau canton.

The population history of Würenlingen is: 1487 - 55 inhabitants 1780 - 719 inhabitants 1850 - 1,130 inhabitants 1900 - 1,055 inhabitants 1950 - 1,525 inhabitants 1975 - 2,645 inhabitants 1980 - 2,784 inhabitants 1990 - 3,082 inhabitants 2000 - 3,644 inhabitants 2010 - 4,241 inhabitants 2014 - 4,455 inhabitants 2020 - 4,838 inhabitants

Per the 2000 census:
 * 59.0% were Roman Catholic
 * 20.6% were Swiss Reformed Church
 * 0.11% were Christian Catholic Church

In 1370, the municipality of Würenlingen belonged to Klingnau parish. In 1779, Würenlingen became a parish. In the 16th century, the current parish church of Saint-Michel was built. It was transformed and enlarged several times of the years. In the 17th century, the Chapel of the Guardian Angels was mentioned.

Church Records
Würenlingen belonged to the parish of Klingnau until 1779, when it became an independent parish. The parish church is called St. Michael. See Klingnau for earlier records.

The following church records are available onsite in the Würenlingen parish church records:
 * Baptisms 1779-1833; confirmations 1780-1865
 * Baptisms 1817-1872
 * Baptisms 1873-1876
 * Marriages 1806-1816; burials 1806-1816, 1830-1833
 * Marriages 1817-1852
 * Burials 1817-1875

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

Note: Marriages 1853-1875 are missing.

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Würenlingen:
 * 1837 (images 595-612)
 * 1850: Form A (images 238-265)
 * 1850: Form B (images 267-268)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Würenlingen 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 Zürich (GHGZ)