Lengnau Parish, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Lengnau 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 Lengnau was first mentioned in 1269. It inlcudes the municipality of Freienwil.

Along with Endingen, Lengnau had a sizable Jewish population.

Census
Two different types of censuses were taken in Lengnau at different times.

Religious Censuses
See here for article describing the Zürich census records.

The following censuses are available for Lengnau (see also census years for the parish of Niederweningen:

Residential Censuses
(See here for information regarding Aargau census records.)

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Lengnau:
 * 1837 (images 607-622)
 * 1837: Jewish residents (images 581-589)
 * 1850: Form A (images 589-633)
 * 1850: Form B (images 634-636)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Lengnau 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)