Kaiserstuhl Parish, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Kaiserstuhl 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 Kaiserstuhl was first mentioned in the 1400s; the parish church was originally on the north side of the river until the church of St. Katharina was built in 1842. The land north of the Rhine River was part of Kaiserstuhl until 1798, when those areas went to Germany, forming the new municipality of Hohentengen. In 1842, Kaiserstuhl and the municipality of Fisibach was transferred from Hohentengen, forming a new parish. See Hohentengen am Hochrein for earlier records.
 * 1418-1996 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index and images

The following church records, as well as all post-1875 records, are available onsite in the Kaiserstuhl parish church office:
 * Baptisms 1759-1812 (extracted from Hohentengen records)
 * Baptisms 1817-1824

The following church records are available onsite in the Zurzach city archive:
 * Baptisms 1817-1875
 * Marriages 1817-1853
 * Marriages 1853-1875
 * Marriages non-resident citizens 1817-1875
 * Burials 1817-1875

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Kaiserstuhl:
 * 1837 (images 650-656)
 * 1850: Form A (images 522-533)
 * 1850: Form B (image 534)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Kaiserstuhl 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)