Rohr, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Rohr, 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 Rohr was in the district of Aarau in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland. It included the linear village of Rohr on a terrace above the Aare river valley.

Rohr (as of 2006) has an area of 3.4 km² (1.3 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 31.7% - agricultural purposes
 * 39.2% - forested
 * 22.7% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * 6.4% - non-productive

History
In 1027, Rohr was first mentioned by the name of Rore.

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

The population history of Rohr is: 1340 - 10 inhabitants 1558 - 2 houses 1764 - 129 inhabitants 1803 - 257 inhabitants 1850 - 389 inhabitants 1900 - 595 inhabitants 1970 - 2,459 inhabitants 2000 - 2,652 inhabitants 2020 - 3,249 inhabitants

Per the 2000 census:
 * 28.0% were Roman Catholic
 * 49.4% were Swiss Reformed Church
 * 0.53% were Christian Catholic

Ecclesiastically, Rohr came under Suhr. The Protestant parish of Rohr-Buchs was formed in 1946 and its church was built in 1960 in the new center of the village.

Church Records
Rohr belonged to the parish of Suhr until 1946. See Suhr for more information.

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Rohr:
 * 1837 (images 343-351)
 * 1850: Form A (images 433-442)
 * 1850: Form B (image 443)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Rohr 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)