Niederrohrdorf, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Niederrohrdorf, 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 Niederrohrdorf is in the district of Baden in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland. It is situated on the western foot of the Heitersberg in an ecologically important moorland. It includes the village of Niederrohrdorf and the hamlets of Holzrüti and Vogelrüti as well as scattered farm houses.

Niederrohrdorf (as of 2006) has an area of 3.3 km² (1.3 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 45% - agricultural purposes
 * 29.6% - forested
 * 24.5% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * 0.9% - non-productive (rivers or lakes)

History
In 1179, Niederrohrdorf was first mentioned by the name of Rordorf. It was also mentioned in 1275 as Nidern Rordorf.

In 1854, the municipality of Rohrdorf split into Niederrohrdorf, Oberrohrdorf, and Remetschwil.

The population history of Niederrohrdorf is: 1780 - 255 inhabitants 1803 - 396 inhabitants 1900 - 631 inhabitants 1950 - 1,074 inhabitants 2000 - 2,443 inhabitants 2020 - 4,225 inhabitants

Per the 2000 census:
 * 51.2% belonged to the Roman Catholic Church
 * 27.1% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church
 * 0.70% belonged to the Christian Catholic faith

Niederrohrdorf was part of the church in Oberrohrdorf and became an independent parish in 1972. The Protestant parish was formed in 1929 and a church built in 1964.

Church Records
Niederrohrdorf belonged to the parish of Oberrohrdorf until 1972. See Oberrohrdorf for more information.

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Niederrohrdorf:
 * 1837 (images 507-527, includes Oberrohrdorf)
 * 1850: Form A (images 55-97; includes Oberrohrdorf)
 * 1850: Form B (image 98; includes Oberrohrdorf)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Niederrohrdorf 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)