Kaiseraugst Parish, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Kaiseraugst 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.



Geography
The former municipality of Kaiseraugst (Swiss German: Chäiseraugscht) is in the Rheinfelden district and the Aargau canton. It is located along the Rhine river.

Kaiseraugst (as of 2009) has an area of 4.91 km² (1.90 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 20.2% - agricultural purposes
 * 32.2% - forested
 * 40.9% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * 6.5% - rivers or lakes
 * 0.4% - non-productive

History
In 1442, Kaiseraugst was first mentioned by the name of Augst. It split from Augst to form its own village. Kaiseraugst (Swiss German: Chäiseraugscht) is in the Rheinfelden district and the Aargau canton.

The population history of Kaiseraugst is: 1758 - 215 inhabitants 1850 - 405 inhabitants 1900 - 595 inhabitants 1950 - 842 inhabitants 1970 - 1,311 inhabitants 2000 - 3,917 inhabitants 2020 - 5,550 inhabitants

Per the 2000 census:
 * 30.9% were Roman Catholic
 * 35.8% were Swiss Reformed Church
 * 1.99% were Christian Catholic Church

In 894, the church in Kaiseraugst was mentioned. In 400, the original church was built. A new church replaced it in 1749. In 1878, the majority of the village became Christian Catholic. In 1900, the Roman Catholic church was built. In 1903, the Kaiseraugst parish was created.

Church Records
The parish of Kaiseraugst was first mentioned in 894; the parish church is St. Gallus. It included Olsberg until 1786.

Original church records are located onsite at the Kaiseraugst Christian Catholic parish church office. Microfilm copies of the following church records are available onsite at the Aargau State Archives:
 * Baptisms, marriages, burials 1683-1782; confirmations 1750-1776
 * Olsberg: Baptisms, burials 1727-1788; marriages 1728-1777
 * Baptisms 1782-1816
 * Baptisms Olsberg 1784-1787; baptisms Kaiseraugst 1810-1877
 * Marriages 1786-1816
 * Marriages 1811-1876
 * Burials 1782-1816
 * Burials Olsberg 1784-1786; burials 1811-1863

The following church records are only available onsite at the Kaiseraugst municipal archive:
 * Baptisms 1817-1875
 * Marriages 1817-1852
 * Marriages 1817-1866
 * Marriages 1853-1875
 * Burials 1817-1875

Post-1875 church records, as well as the following church record, are found onsite at the Kaiseraugst Christian Catholic parish church office.
 * Baptisms 1593-1632, 1637-1684; marriages, burials 1593-1692

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Kaiseraugst:
 * 1837 (images 722-730)
 * 1850: Form A (images 130-139)
 * 1850: Form B (image 140)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Kaiseraugst 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 Region Basel (GHGRB)