Leibstadt, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Leibstadt, 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 Leibstadt is in the district of Zurzach in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland. The municipality is located between the Wandfluh and Rhine rivers. It consists of the haufendorf village (an irregular, unplanned and quite closely packed village, built around a central square) of Leibstadt and the hamlet of Bernau.

Leibstadt (as of 2009) has an area of 6.39 km² (2.47 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 43.7% - agricultural purposes
 * 34.1% - forested
 * 18.5% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * 3.4% - either rivers or lakes

History
In 1240, Leibstadt was first mentioned by the name of Leibesteit.

In 1866, the municipality was created when the formerly independent villages of Oberleibstadt and Unterleibstadt merged.

The population history of Leibstadt is: 1850 - 911 inhabitants 1900 - 838 inhabitants 1950 - 772 inhabitants 1980 - 1,150 inhabitants 1990 - 1,225 inhabitants 2000 - 1,298 inhabitants 2020 - 1,404 inhabitants

Per the 2000 census:
 * 59.6% belonged to the Roman Catholic Church
 * 15.3% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church

In 1880, Leibstadt divided from the parish of Leuggern and formed their own Catholic parish (which included Schwaderloch between 1818 and 1953). The village chapel burned down in 1871 was replaced with the current parish church in 1879–80.

Church Records
Leibstadt belonged to the parish of Leuggern until 1880. See Leuggern for more information.

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Leibstadt:

Oberleibstadt

 * 1837 (images 700-706)
 * 1850: Form A (images 678-687)
 * 1850: Form B (image 688)

Unterleibstadt

 * 1837 (images 69-79)
 * 1850: Form A (images 633-644)
 * 1850: Form B (image 645)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Leibstadt 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)