Zeiningen Parish, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Zeiningen 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 former municipality of Zeiningen is in the Rheinfelden district and the Aargau canton. It is located at the entrance to the Wegenstettertal and east of Rheinfelden.

Zeiningen (as of 2009) has an area of 11.37 km² (4.39 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 43.9% - agricultural purposes
 * 44.2% - forested
 * 11.9% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * 0.1% - non-productive

History
In 1217, Zeiningen was first mentioned by the name of Ceiningen. Zeiningen is in the Rheinfelden district and the Aargau canton.

The population history of Zeiningen is: 1768 - 650 inhabitants 1850 - 983 inhabitants 1900 - 953 inhabitants 1950 - 1,043 inhabitants 1975 - 1,275 inhabitants 1980 - 1,367 inhabitants 1990 - 1,639 inhabitants 2000 - 1,828 inhabitants 2020 - 2,400 inhabitants

Per the 2000 census:
 * 54.3% were Roman Catholic
 * 23.2% were Swiss Reformed Church
 * 3.39% were Christian Catholic Church

In 1236, the St. Agatha's Church was attested. In 1634, it was destroyed by fire. In 1768, it was transformed.

Church Records
The parish of Zeiningen was first mentioned in the tenth century; the parish church is called St. Agatha.

Original church records are located onsite at the Zeiningen parish church office or the Rheinfelden civil registration office. Microfilm copies of the following church records are available onsite at the Aargau State Archives:
 * Baptisms 1588-1637; marriages 1591-1640; burials 1590-1628
 * Baptisms 1637-1724; marriages 1640-1746; burials 1637-1731; confirmations 1670-1712
 * Baptisms 1724-1784; marriages 1747-1784; burials 1731-1784; confirmations 1749-1776
 * Baptisms 1784-1844; confirmations 1805-1865
 * Baptisms 1817-1875
 * Marriages 1784-1844; first communions 1824-1870
 * Marriages 1817-1852; marriages non-resident citizens 1817-1846
 * Marriages 1853-1875
 * Burials 1784-1844
 * Burials 1817-1875

The following church records are only available onsite at the Zeiningen municipal archive:
 * Baptisms non-resident citizens 1835-1875

Post-1875 church records are found onsite at the Zeiningen parish church office.
 * Family book 1870-1882

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Zeiningen:
 * 1837 (images 682-701)
 * 1850: Form A (images 379-403)
 * 1850: Form B (image 404)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Zeiningen 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)