Sisseln, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Sisseln, 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 Sisseln is in the district of Laufenburg in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland. It is located at the junction of the Sissle and the Rhine, situated on the old Austrian Rhine valley road from Lake Constance to Burgundy.

Sisseln (as of 2009) has an area of 2.52 km² (0.97 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 32.5% - agricultural purposes
 * 19.8% - forested
 * 35.3% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * 15.1% - non-productive (either rivers or lakes)

History
In 1327, Sisseln was first mentioned by the name of Sisslen.

The population history of Sisseln is: 1803 - 233 inhabitants 1850 - 367 inhabitants 1900 - 365 inhabitants 1950 - 318 inhabitants 1975 - 608 inhabitants 1980 - 745 inhabitants 1990 - 1,182 inhabitants 2000 - 1,282 inhabitants 2020 - 1,661 inhabitants

Per the 2000 census:
 * 44.7% belonged to the Roman Catholic Church
 * 30.2% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church
 * 0.48% belonged to the Christian Catholic faith

Spiritually, first Sisseln depended on Frick, then from 1797 on Eiken. Since 1823, it has had the chapel of St. Fridolin.

Church Records
Sisseln belonged to the parish of Frick until 1797, when it was transferred to the parish of Eiken. See Eiken and Frick for more information.

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Sisseln:
 * 1837 (images 45-51)
 * 1850: Form A (images 583-591)
 * 1850: Form B (image 592)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Sisseln 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)