Möhlin Parish, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Möhlin 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 municipality of Möhlin is in the district of Rheinfelden in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland. The municipality is situated in the Rheinfelden district, along the Möhlinbach (Möhlin stream). It includes the two parts Obermöhlin (Upper Möhlin) and Untermöhlin (Lower Möhlin) in the south of the railway line and of Riburg in the north.

Möhlin (as of 2009) has an area of 18.79 km² (7.25 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 42.0% - agricultural purposes
 * 36.6% - forested
 * 18.5% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * 3.1% - either rivers or lakes
 * 0.1% - non-productive

History
In 794, Möhlin was first mentioned by the name of Melina.

The population history of Möhlin is: 1768 - 1,102 inhabitants 1850 - 1,940 inhabitants 1900 - 2,209 inhabitants 1950 - 3,830 inhabitants 1990 - 7,157 inhabitants 2000 - 8,297 inhabitants 2010 - 10,025 inhabitants 2020 - 11,088 inhabitants

Per the 2000 census:
 * 37.6% belonged to the Roman Catholic Church
 * 28.7% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church

The church appears in the 8th century with Germanus patronage and from the 10th century with Leodegar patronage. The original church was replaced with a new building in 1609. Between 1803 and 1863, the patronage was held by the Canton of Aargau. The two chapels in Obermöhlin and Riburg were built in the 17th and early 18th century. The Christian Catholic parish was founded in 1873 and took over the church at that time. The church was refurbished in 1954. In the 1940s, both a Catholic and a Reformed church were built.

Church Records
The parish church of Möhlin was first mentioned in the eighth century; the church is called St. Leodegar.

The following church records are available onsite in the Rheinfelden civil registration office:
 * Baptisms 1702-1784; marriages, burials 1697-1784; confirmations 1749-1765
 * Baptisms 1784-1816
 * Baptisms 1817-1854
 * Baptisms 1855-1876
 * Marriages 1784-1816
 * Marriages 1817-1853
 * Marriages 1853-1876
 * Marriages non-resident citizens 1817-1851
 * Burials 1784-1816
 * Burials 1817-1861
 * Burials 1862-1876

The following church records are only available onsite at the Möhlin municipal archive:
 * Family book A-M 1855-1873
 * Family book M-Z 1855-1873

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

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Möhlin:
 * 1837 (images 730-765)
 * 1850: Form A (images 174-222)
 * 1850: Form B (images 223-226)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Möhlin 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 Region Basel (GHGRB)