Schafisheim, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Schafisheim, 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 Schafisheim is in the district of Lenzburg in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland. It is situated at the lower exit of the Seetal. It includes the village of Schafisheim and the hamlets of Bettetal and Heuelmüli.

Schafisheim (as of 2009) has an area of 6.33 km² (2.44 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 38.1% - agricultural purposes
 * 41.1% - forested
 * 20.9% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * 0.5% - non-productive (either rivers or lakes)

History
In 1261–64, Schafisheim was first mentioned by the name of Scafusa.

The population history of Schafisheim is: 1764 - 577 inhabitants 1831 - 1,131 inhabitants 1850 - 1,068 inhabitants 1900 - 868 inhabitants 1950 - 1,383 inhabitants 2000 - 2,656 inhabitants 2010 - 2,795 inhabitants 2020 - 3,062 inhabitants

Per the 2000 census:
 * 22.4% belonged to the Roman Catholic Church
 * 56.6% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church
 * 0.08% belonged to the Christian Catholic faith

Schafisheim chapel of ease is first attested in 1360 and it belonged to the Staufen parish. In 1496–98, the chapel of St. Leodegar was constructed on the site of the earlier chapel which has served as a branch church since 1850.

Church Records
Schafisheim belongs to the parish of Staufen. See Staufen for more information.

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Schafisheim:
 * 1837 (images 237-252)
 * 1850: Form A (images 358-393)
 * 1850: Form B (images 394-396)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Schafisheim 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)