Klingnau Parish, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Klingnau 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 Klingnau was first mentioned in 1360; its parish church is called St. Katharina. It included Döttingen until 1848, Koblenz until 1927, and Würenlingen until 1779
 * 1418-1996 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index and images

The following church records are only available onsite at the Klingnau parish church office:
 * Baptisms 1614-1695; marriages 1608-1711; burials 1611-1665, 1673-1711; confirmations 1653-1692
 * Baptisms 1817-1875

The following church records are only available onsite at the Klingnau city archive:
 * Baptisms, marriages, burials 1712-1805; confirmations 1705-1780
 * Baptisms, marriages, burials 1806-1832 (organized by location); confirmations 1808-1839, 1846-1865
 * Baptisms 1817-1847
 * Baptisms 1848-1875
 * Marriages 1817-1852
 * Marriages 1853-1875
 * Marriages non-resident citizens 1817-1874
 * Burials 1817-1863
 * Burials 1864-1875

Post-1875 church records are found onsite at the Klingnau parish church office.

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Klingnau:
 * 1837 (images 632-650)
 * 1850: Form A (images 535-566)
 * 1850: Form B (images 567-568)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Klingnau 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)