Oberrohrdorf Parish, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Oberrohrdorf 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.



Church Records
The parish of Rohrdorf, located in Oberrohrdorf, was mentioned in the eleventh century; the parish church is called St. Martin. It includes the municipalities of Bellikon (until 1925), Künten (until 1901), Remetschwil, Stetten (until 1888), and Niederrohrdorf (until 1972).

Original church records are located onsite at the Rohrdorf Gut Hirt parish church office. Microfilm copies of the following church records are available onsite at the Aargau State Archives:
 * Baptisms, marriages 1592-1647; burials 1610-1647 (all with gaps)
 * Baptisms, marriages, burials 1671-1712
 * Baptisms 1713-1747; marriages, burials 1713-1750; confirmations 1721-1735
 * Baptisms 1817-1839
 * Baptisms 1821-1846
 * Baptisms 1840-1864
 * Baptisms 1865-1875
 * Marriages 1750-1835
 * Burials 1750-1835
 * Confirmations
 * Family book 1820-1867

Post-1875 church records, as well as the following church records, are found onsite at the Rohrdorf Gut Hirt parish church office. Note: Baptisms 1747-1817 are missing
 * Marriages 1817-1852
 * Marriages 1853-1875
 * Burials 1817-1852
 * Burials 1852-1875

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Oberrohrdorf:
 * 1837 (images 507-527; includes Niederrohrdorf)
 * 1850: Form A (images 55-97; includes Niederrohrdorf)
 * 1850: Form B (image 98; includes Niederrohrdorf)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Oberrohrdorf 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)