Schneisingen Parish, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Schneisingen 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 Schneisingen is in the Zurzach district and the Aargau canton. It is located in the upper Surbtal. The municipality of Schneisingen includes the hamlets of Hüniken, Unterschneisingen, Mittelschneisingen and Oberschneisingen, and Widen.

Schneisingen (as of 2009) has an area of 8.25 km² (3.19 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 49.5% - agricultural purposes
 * 41.6% - forested
 * 9.3% - settled (buildings or roads)

History
In 1113, Schneisingen was first mentioned by the name of Sneisanch. Schneisingen is in the Zurzach district and the Aargau canton.

The population history of Schneisingen is: 1799 - 442 inhabitants 1850 - 623 inhabitants 1900 - 536 inhabitants 1950 - 778 inhabitants 1975 - 955 inhabitants 1980 - 1,037 inhabitants 1990 - 1,141 inhabitants 2000 - 1,248 inhabitants 2020 - 1,491 inhabitants

Per the 2000 census:
 * 57.4% were Roman Catholic
 * 28.3% were Swiss Reformed Church

In 1113, the parish church of Saint-Nicolas was mentioned. It was rebuilt in 1523.

Church Records
The parish of Schneisingen was first mentioned in the twelfth century; the parish church is called St. Nikolaus. It included the municipalities of Mellstorf until 1832 and Rümikon until 1857. It still includes the municipality of Siglistorf.

Original church records are located onsite at the Schneisingen municipal archive. Microfilm copies of the following church records are available onsite at the Aargau State Archives:
 * Baptisms, marriages, burials 1750-1808; confirmations 1753-1793
 * Baptisms, marriages, burials 1805-1830 (organized by location); confirmations 1808-1839, 1846-1865

The following church records are only available onsite at the Schneisingen municipal archive]:
 * Baptisms 1817-1855
 * Baptisms 1856-1875
 * Marriages 1817-1852
 * Marriages 1853-1875
 * Marriages non-resident citizens 1817-1865
 * Burials 1817-1875

Post-1875 church records, along with the following church records, are found onsite at the Schneisingen parish church office.
 * Family book Schneisingen and Widen 1850-1944
 * Family book Siglistorf 1850-1945

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Schneisingen:
 * 1837 (images 723-732)
 * 1850: Form A (images 721-736)
 * 1850: Form B (image 737)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Schneisingen 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)