Bünzen Parish, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Bünzen 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 Bünzen was first mentioned in 1328. It includes the municipalities of Besenbüren and Waldhäusern.

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

Waldhäusern was a separate municipality until 1940, when it became part of Bünzen. During these censuses, it was enumerated separately. The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Bünzen and Waldhäusern:

Bünzen

 * 1837 (images 488-494)
 * 1850: Form A (images 644-654)
 * 1850: Form B (images 655-656)

Waldhäusern

 * 1837 (499-501)
 * 1850: Form A (images 81-84)
 * 1850: Form B (image 85)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Bünzen prior to 1875:

Related sources
The town's website (in German) can be found here.

Libraries and archives
State Archives of Aargau

Societies
Central Swiss Society for Family History (ZGF)