Mellingen Parish, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Mellingen 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 Mellingen is a historic town and a municipality in the district of Baden in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland. The town is a compact, walled medieval city center that straddles the river Reuss. The old city is surrounded by a number of newer settlements and has grown into a center of the small Unteres Reusstal region.

Mellingen (as of 2006) has an area of 4.8 km² (1.9 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 36.2% - agricultural purposes
 * 32.4% - forested
 * 26.7% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * 4.8% - non-productive (rivers or lakes)

History
In 1045, Mellingen was first mentioned by the name of Mellingen from a 16th-century copy of the original. In 1217-39, it was mentioned again as Menelingen.

The population history of Mellingen is: 1755 - 325 inhabitants 1803 - 586 inhabitants 1850 - 746 inhabitants 1900 - 899 inhabitants 1950 - 1,634 inhabitants 1970 - 3,211 inhabitants 2000 - 4,239 inhabitants 2020 - 5,865 inhabitants

Per the 2000 census:
 * 46.3% belonged to the Roman Catholic Church
 * 27.7% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church
 * 27.7% belonged to the Christian Catholic faith

In 1045, a church belonging to the Schänis monastery was first mentioned in Mellingen. In 1529, Mellingen adopted the Reformation but was forcibly re-catholicized in 1532 by the victors of the Kappeler wars. In 1675, the current early baroque town church was built. In 1910, a reformed church was constructed for the Evangelical-Reformed Cooperative Mellingen and the surrounding area, which was founded in 1894.

Church Records
The Catholic parish was first mentioned in 1045; the parish church is called Johannes der Täufer. It was briefly Reformed from 1529-1532, when it was recatholicized.

Original church records are located onsite at the Mellingen municipal archive. Microfilm copies of the following church records are available onsite at the Aargau State Archives:
 * Baptisms, marriages, burials 1619-1730
 * Baptisms, marriages, burials 1731-1804; confirmations 1731-1797
 * Marriages 1804-1876
 * Marriages 1817-1852
 * Marriages non-resident citizens 1817-1871
 * Burials 1817-1875
 * Family book 1819-1879

he following church records are only available onsite at the Mellingen municipal archive:
 * Baptisms 1804-1892
 * Marriages 1853-1875
 * Burials 1804-1947

Post-1875 church records, as well as the following family book, are found onsite at the Mellingen parish church office.
 * Family book 1860-1898

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Mellingen:
 * 1837 (images 492-500)
 * 1850: Form A (images 18-37)
 * 1850: Form B (images 38-39)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Mellingen 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)