Full-Reuenthal, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Full-Reuenthal, 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 Full-Reuenthal is in the district of Zurzach in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland. It is situated in a Rhine knee (bend in the Rhine River) across from the German city of Waldshut. It includes the scattered village of Full with the sections of Unterdorf, Fahrhäuser, and Jüppen and the haufendorf village (an irregular, unplanned and quite closely packed village, built around a central square) of Reuenthal. It is located near the confluence of the rivers Aare and Rhine.

Full-Reuenthal (as of 2009) has an area of 4.82 km² (1.86 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 53.9% - agricultural purposes
 * 22.4% - forested
 * 13.7% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * 10.8% - either rivers or lakes

History
Around 1303-07, Full is first mentioned as Wulna, and Reuenthal was mentioned at the same time as Ruwental.

In 1832, Full-Reuenthal became a municipality when it was separated from Oberleibstadt.

The population history of Full-Reuenthal is: 1850 - 442 inhabitants 1870 - 356 inhabitants 1900 - 404 inhabitants 1950 - 493 inhabitants 1990 - 735 inhabitants 2000 - 806 inhabitants 2020 - 883 inhabitants

Per the 2000 census:
 * 66.1% were Roman Catholic
 * 22.6% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church
 * 0.25% belonged to the Christian Catholic Church

Full-Reuenthal, who had a chapel constructed in 1794 in the old Unterdorf quarter, and another in Reuenthal since 1895, has always depended on the parish of Leuggern.

Church Records
Full-Reuenthal belongs to the parish of Leuggern. See Leuggern for more information.

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Full-Reuenthal:
 * 1837 (images 656-662)
 * 1850: Form A (images 510-520)
 * 1850: Form B (image 521)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Full-Reuenthal prior to 1875:

Related sources
The town's website (in German) can be found here.

Libraries and archives
State Archives of Aargau

Societies
Central Swiss Society for Family History (ZGF)