Effingen, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Effingen, 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 Effingen is in the Brugg district and the Aargau canton. It is located on the western flank of the Bözberg. The municipality of Effingen includes the linear village of Effingen and the Chästel hamlet.

Effingen (as of 2006) has an area of 6.85 km² (2.64 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 43.5% - agricultural purposes
 * 47.2% - forested
 * 8.5% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * 0.7% - rivers or lakes
 * 0.4% - non-productive

History
In 1284, Effingen was first mentioned by the name of Efingen. Effingen is in the Brugg district and the Aargau canton.

Effingen merged into the Böztal municipality on 1 January 2022. Other municipalities merged include:
 * Bözen
 * Elfingen
 * Hornussen

The population history of Effingen is: 1764 - 265 inhabitants 1850 - 504 inhabitants 1900 - 431 inhabitants 1950 - 395 inhabitants 1980 - 403 inhabitants 2000 - 632 inhabitants 2010 - 579 inhabitants 2020 - 632 inhabitants

Per the 2000 census:
 * 26.9% were Roman Catholic
 * 55.9% were Swiss Reformed Church

Effingen chapel belonged to the Elfingen parish. Around 1600, it belonged to the Bözen parish.

Church Records
Effingen belongs to the parish of Bözen. See Bözen for more information.

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Effingen:
 * 1837 (images 230-238)
 * 1850: Form A (images 148-160)
 * 1850: Form B (image 161)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Effingen 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 Bern (GHGB)