Koblenz, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Koblenz, 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 municipality of Koblenz (or Coblenz) is a town and municipality in the district of Zurzach in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland. The municipality is situated between the Aare and Rhine rivers. It is located opposite Waldshut in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It includes the haufendorf village (an irregular, unplanned, and quite closely packed village, built around a central square) of Koblenz.

Koblenz (as of 2009) has an area of 4.08 km² (1.58 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 41.4% - agricultural purposes
 * 29.2% - forested
 * 19.6% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * 8.8% - either rivers or lakes
 * 0.5% - non-productive

History
In the 10th or 11th Century, Koblenz was first mentioned by the name of Confluentia. In 1265, it was also mentioned as Cobilz.

The population history of Koblenz is: 1803 - 434 inhabitants 1850 - 709 inhabitants 1900 - 554 inhabitants 1950 - 882 inhabitants 1990 - 1,550 inhabitants 2000 - 1,611 inhabitants 2020 - 1,671 inhabitants

Per the 2000 census:
 * 44.7% belonged to the Roman Catholic Church
 * 27.7% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church
 * 0.43% belonged to the Christian Catholic faith

Koblenz was part of the parish of Zurzach and then from 1529, to the parish of Klingnau. In 1305, the St. Verena dedicated village chapel was mentioned. The separation from Klingnau and establishing a separate parish occurred in 1927. The influx of Protestants led to the founding of the reformation church cooperative in 1926.

Church Records
Koblenz belonged to the parish of Klingnau until 1927. See Klingnau for more information.

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Koblenz:
 * 1837 (images 599-607)
 * 1850: Form A (images 569-586)
 * 1850: Form B (images 587-588)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Killwangen 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)