Hegnau: the WikiTree chapter

Hegnau, the village that gave the Hegnauers their name, from the air on 26 April 1946. Photo: Werner Friedli, ETH-Bibliothek Zürich, Bildarchiv (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Every Hegnauer carries the name of a village. Hegnauer means "the person from Hegnau". Hegnau lies near Uster in the canton of Zürich and is today one of the five villages of the municipality of Volketswil.¹² For centuries the neighbouring villages laughed at the people of Hegnau, and the villagers passed the stories on themselves. In 2010 the local history society, the Verein Ortsgeschichte Volketswil (VOV), gathered thirteen of these stories into a booklet, Vom Guggu und andere wahre Hegnauer Geschichten. It was published for the two-hundredth anniversary of the school in the village chapel, the Chappeli.³ This page covers the village and its name, the Chappeli and its onion-domed tower, and the stories. It also sets out what does, and does not, connect the place to the Hegnauer families.

The village and its name

Hegnau is an old place. An early medieval cemetery there points to Alemannic settlers in the 6th or 7th century.¹ The Zürich place-name book gives the oldest form of the name as Hegenowa, about 1150, and explains the second part of the name as the Old High German ouwa, "land beside water". The first part is most likely a man's name, Hagino or Hego, so Hegnau was "Hagino's land by the water".⁴ The earliest charter naming the village that has been read for this page is of 10 March 1267. At Zürich, Walter von Vaz, guardian of the posthumous son of the late Count Rudolf of Rapperswil, confirmed that the knight Rudolf "de Turri" had sold his land at Heginou to the Lazarite brothers of Gfenn for 14 marks of silver.⁵ The local history society also dates the first mention to 1267, though it names no document.⁶ An older record may exist. In 1244 a burgher of Rapperswil gave his land in the "villa Hegenowe" to the abbey of Einsiedeln and took it back as a fief, and the abbey's historian thought the place was "probably" Hegnau.⁷

In the 13th century "those of Hegnau", a family of lords named after the village, were probably ministeriales of the Counts of Rapperswil: knights and officials in a lord's service. Hegnau came to the city of Zürich with the lordship of Greifensee in 1402 and belonged to the bailiwick of Greifensee until 1798. In church matters it belonged to the parish of Uster.¹ In 1589 the village received its first Einzugsbrief, the charter that set the terms on which newcomers could settle there. It had a school of its own from 1667.⁶

The surname, with the -er ending that means "a person from", is found in the city of Zürich before it is found in the village. The city's tax book for 1366 lists a "Johans Hegenower" in the Neumarkt quarter and a "Hegnöwer" in the Rennweg quarter.⁸ In 1437 the tax registers name "Hans Hegnoͧwer von Hegnoͧw", Hans Hegnauer of Hegnau.⁴ In 1467–1470 Herman Hegnauer was taxed at Hegnau itself, with his wife and their son Wilhelm, and another Hegnauer household lived at Wangen, the next village.⁸ The same registers also use von Hegnau for villagers with other surnames, so "of Hegnau" alone does not make someone a Hegnauer.⁴

In 1830 a new state road from Schwamendingen by Uster to Hinwil was planned straight through Hegnau, cutting the village in two.⁶ After more road building around 1840, Hegnau grew along the street.¹ Running water reached the houses of the Hinterdorf in 1889, and electricity and the first street lamps came in 1911. Hegnau's own civil commune was dissolved in 1932. By 2021 it had close to 10,000 people and was the largest of Volketswil's villages.⁶

The Chappeli and its onion-domed tower

In the old heart of the village, at Alte Gasse 5, stands the Chappeli, Zürich German for "little chapel".⁹ It began as a chapel of Our Lady. The HLS dates it to the 13th century and records its first mention in 1503/04.¹ The local history society has it built about 1300 as a Romanesque chapel, with a rectangular nave, a narrower choir and small round-arched windows. In 1503/04 it was enlarged into a Gothic chapel, and the Zürich authorities gave "those of Hegnau" eight pounds towards the work.⁶

In 1810 the commune had the carpenter Jakob Thalmann of Zimikon take down part of the nave, raise the side walls and turn the chapel into a schoolhouse, with the schoolroom upstairs. The government gave 100 gulden, and an inscription twelve metres long on a roof beam records that the frame was raised on 28 August 1810.¹⁰ The society's online timeline gives 1811 instead.⁶ The school's two hundredth anniversary was celebrated on 22 and 23 October 2010.³ The young Traugott Vogel (1894–1975), later a writer for young people, taught the Hegnau children in the Chappeli schoolroom. He taught at Hegnau and Dietikon before moving to Zürich in 1929.¹¹¹² The village councillors met in the building too. The fire brigade kept its engine on the ground floor from 1810, and a teacher's flat was built in in 1844.¹³ Road traffic ended the school: the last examination was held there in the spring of 1969. The municipality restored the building and added an annex between 1982 and 1985.¹⁴ Today it is a municipal venue. Civil weddings are held in its Freiherren-Stube, "the barons' room", and the old schoolroom and a room called the Guggunäscht, "the cuckoo's nest", can be hired.¹⁵⁹

The tower carries an onion-shaped helm, which the civil registry office singles out as the building's characteristic feature.¹⁵ The society's jubilee booklet tells its story. Before 1700 the tower had a low, blunt top, and Hegnau fixed a clock to it.¹⁶ The commune's accounts for 1696 pay Jacob Grossmann, the Zytenrichter or clock-keeper, his agreed 4 pounds 6 shillings, and 1 pound 2 shillings more for cleaning and mending the clock.¹⁷ In 1755 the commune raised the choir and set on it a square storey for the bell and the clock, crowned by a slightly narrower onion cupola. It is the helm the tower still wears. The clock of 1755 had two faces, one looking up the village street and one looking down it.¹⁶¹⁷ In November 1926 the civil commune bought a new clock with four dials from the Mäder firm of Andelfingen.¹⁷ The bell has a history of its own. Hans Füssli of Zürich cast a small bell for the chapel in 1503, inscribed AVE MARIA GRAC. It cracked in 1937, and in the winter of 1938 the Rüetschi foundry of Aarau supplied the bell that hangs there now.¹⁸ The booklet names its sources only as a group (the Volketswil Neujahrsblätter, Beat Frei's histories of Volketswil, the society's and the school's archives, and long-established residents), so these dates still wait to be checked at first hand.¹⁹

The stories remember the building differently. In one tale the tower is a pointed spire, a Spitzhelmturm, roofed like the nave with old, half-rotten wooden shingles on which grass grows.²⁰ Six of the thirteen stories in Vom Guggu are about the Chappeli: its building, its place by the road, its bell, its roof and its schoolroom.²¹

The stories of Hegnau

The foreword says that these stories have passed by word of mouth for centuries. Most come from the local-studies binder of the Volketswil schools. Others were told by the village chronicler Jörg Elmer, by Jacques Frei of Hofstetten near Elgg and by Alfred Temperli of Gutenswil. One comes from the Volketswiler Neujahrsblatt of 1974, and the longest from the Zürcher Kalender of 1920.³ Nearly all are told at the villagers' expense. In all of them a "Hegnauer" is simply a person from Hegnau.

• Vom Guggu (The cuckoo). Whoever has money in his pocket when the cuckoo calls will not run short all year, so the villagers decide to own the bird itself. They gather timber in secret and, when it calls, fence in its tree. It has long since flown.²²
• Vom grünen Sonntagsrock (The green Sunday coat). The village tries to push its chapel back from the road, with the Untervogt's Sunday coat marking the spot. A passing journeyman steals the coat. The Untervogt decides that the church has moved and is now sitting on his coat, and the village buys him a new one.²³
• Das Eselei (The donkey's egg). Sent to Zürich to order the Chappeli's bell, the council takes a spoonful of mustard for a delicacy and buys a pumpkin as a donkey's egg. The voters take turns sitting on it for forty-two days. Then it rolls downhill and bursts against a tree, and a hare runs off from behind the trunk.²⁴
• Die Glocke (The bell). In wartime the villagers sink their bell in the Greifensee and mark the place on the boat's bow. The bell is still there.²⁵
• Die Hegnauer messen die Tiefe ihres Brunnens (Measuring the well). In a drought the Untervogt, Andreas Gull, who had served in Holland, has the men hang one below another from a beam to measure the well's depth. He lets go to spit on his hands, and they all fall in.²⁶
• Eine Volkszählung in Hegnau (A census). Every count in the square comes out different, so the villagers count nose-prints in a cowpat instead.²⁷
• Wie man in Hegnau Nägel machte (Making nails). Short of nails and money, the village plants pins in its fields to grow them.²⁸
• Aushub beim Bau des Chappeli (The spoil). A village meeting decides to bury the spoil from the chapel's foundations in a new hole.²⁹
• Das Gras auf dem Kirchdach (The grass on the church roof). At the well by the inn called the Stammbaum ("family tree"), a day-labourer persuades the villagers to graze a goat on the chapel's grassy shingle roof. They hoist it up by a rope round its neck, and it arrives dead.²⁰
• Wie die Hegnauer ihre Häuser heizten (Heating the houses). In a hard winter the village builds one great fire in the square. Then everyone runs home to open every door and window to the heat.³⁰
• Heuwätter flüg uf Hegnau zue! (Hay weather, fly to Hegnau). After a wet summer a villager buys "hay weather" in a box from a Zürich apothecary. He opens it on the way home and chases the hornet that flies out.³¹
• Ein ungewöhnlicher Schulbesuch (An unusual school inspection). A school-board farmer from Zimikon inspects Traugott Vogel's school without leaving the seat of his manure cart, and praises everything.¹¹
• Warum die Hegnauer wasserscheu wurden (Why the Hegnauers became afraid of water). A poor man, wronged by his rich neighbour, outwits a band of robbers and then the neighbour. At last, at full moon, he leads the envious villagers into the Greifensee after cattle that are only reflections. For more than a hundred years afterwards, the tale ends, Hegnau drank only wine and schnapps. The booklet takes this story from the Zürcher Kalender of 1920, under the name of J. J. Reithard. He was very probably the Zürich writer Johann Jakob Reithard (1805–1857), whose collection of Swiss tales and legends appeared in 1853.³²³³

Hegnau and the Hegnauer families

The name is what joins the place to the families. In the stories every villager is a Hegnauer and every village woman a Hegnauerin. That is the everyday word for someone from Hegnau, and it is also the surname.³ It began as a description. In 1281 a man was written "C. dictus Hegenower", and in 1282 a man at Pfäfers was "Albertus dictus Ischener et dictus Hegnower": dictus means "called", and Albert still had two bynames, so neither was yet a family name.³⁴³⁵ By the later 1300s it passed from father to son: at Baden, in Aargau, Wilhelm, the son of Johannes von Hegnau, was von Hegnow in 1399 and "Wilhelm Hegnöwer" in 1413.³⁶ The earliest bearers found lived in the city of Zürich in 1366, and in 1467–1470 Herman Hegnauer lived at Hegnau itself. The tax books name no relationships beyond the household, so none of these medieval Hegnauers can yet be joined on paper to a later family.⁸³⁷

The name also stayed in Hegnau's own parish. Hegnau belongs to the parish of Volketswil, which became independent of Uster in 1638.¹ The Volketswil church book begins in 1588, and Hegnauers appear in it from 1590, when Hans, son of Clinhans Hegnauer, was baptised on 25 July.³⁸³⁹ Some twenty Hegnauer households followed, among them Felix Hegnauer and Elsbeth Wolfensberger, whose children were baptised from 1603, and Hans Jacob Hegnauer and Barbara Ochsner, whose sons were very probably the Andreas and Marx Hegnauer who married there in 1634 and 1637.⁴⁰⁴¹³⁷ The last Hegnauer of the male line in the book is Hans Jacob, born in 1706 and buried on 27 April 1736; Hegnauer mothers still appear until 1801.⁴²³⁷ The entries do not say which of the parish's villages each family lived in, and no record yet shows whether these Hegnauers descended from the lords of Hegnau or from other villagers.³⁷

The other families the study has mapped begin further away:

• Elgg, about 20 km from Hegnau, from 1553. Elgg is one of the two old Hegnauer citizenships.⁴³⁴⁴
• Uster, Hegnau's old parish, from 1647. The family found there from 1730 probably came from Elgg.⁴⁵⁴⁶
• Igis, Graubünden, from 1715, when Jacob Hegnauer ("Hagenauwer") married there. Where he came from is not recorded.⁴⁷⁴⁸
• Seengen, Aargau, the other old citizenship. No record links it to Elgg or Igis.⁴⁴

None of these lines is documented as descending from the Hegnauers of Hegnau or its parish. Two possible links with Volketswil are being tested: the Hans Hegnauer who married Elsbeth Bosshart there in 1684 may be the Hans Heinrich Hegnauer whose children by an Elsbeth Bosshart were baptised at Elgg in 1689 and 1691, and a Jacob baptised at Volketswil in 1682 is one of the candidates for the Jacob who settled at Igis.⁴⁹⁵⁰ The Igis citizens' notes call the name a name of origin from Hegnau.⁵¹ That is what the name records: where some ancestor once came from, not who he was or when he left. It is still open whether all Hegnauers share one ancestor from Hegnau or whether the name arose more than once. A Y-DNA test of a direct male-line Hegnauer from each line could tell.³⁷

The earliest possible entries are also the closest to Hegnau, and they are still unproved. FamilySearch's index has two baptisms at Fehraltorf, a neighbouring parish, in 1548 and 1550, for children of a Jacob "Hegnoren". If the register confirms the name, these are the oldest church-book entries of it.⁵²

The booklet itself adds no genealogical evidence, because no one in it bears the surname. It offers only two small echoes. Two of its stories were handed down by Jacques Frei of Hofstetten near Elgg, whose father had almost fallen in love with a woman from Hegnau.²⁵ The Untervogt of the well story is called Gull, a name recorded at Hegnau in 1483 ("Hans Gul von Hegnau").²⁶⁴ Neither is evidence of a family link.

Research needed

• The tower's dates at first hand: the jubilee booklet gives 1696, 1755 and 1926 without a source for each. The Kunstdenkmäler volume for the districts of Pfäffikon and Uster (1978) and Beat Frei's histories of Volketswil should confirm them.
• The first written mention of Hegnau: find the document behind the place-name book's Hegenowa of about 1150, and check that it means this Hegnau (Hegenowa is also a medieval form of Hagenau in Alsace). The 1244 Einsiedeln record needs checking in the Zürcher Urkundenbuch as well.
• The stories in their first printings: the Volketswiler Neujahrsblatt of 1974, the Zürcher Kalender of 1920, and Reithard's Geschichten und Sagen aus der Schweiz (1853).³³
• Hegnauers at Hegnau: follow Herman Hegnauer's household of 1467–1470 towards the Volketswil church book, which has Hegnauers from 1590; find where the Volketswil Hegnauers went after 1736 (the Zürich population registers, Bevölkerungsverzeichnisse, list households and absent members); and check the Fehraltorf entries against the register images.

See also: Hegnauer Name Study (main page) · Switzerland: Origins and Parishes

Sources

Notes

1. Ueli Müller, "Volketswil," Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz (HLS), version of 2012 (edited 19 September 2017), hls-dhs-dss.ch/de/articles/000136/2017-09-19 (accessed 27 September 2026). ↩
2. Gemeinde Volketswil, "Willkommen" (accessed 27 September 2026). Volketswil is made up of the five villages of Hegnau, Zimikon, Kindhausen, Gutenswil and Volketswil. ↩
3. Madeleine Jordi and Mayken Strub (collectors), Vom Guggu und andere wahre Hegnauer Geschichten, illustrated by Beni Merk (Volketswil: VOV Verein Ortsgeschichte Volketswil, 2010), 36 pp., published for the jubilee of 22–23 October 2010, "200 Jahre Schule Chappeli" (foreword, p. 3; imprint, p. 4; the neighbours' mockery, p. 7). PDF on the publisher's site (accessed 27 September 2026). ↩
4. Zürcher Siedlungsnamenbuch, entry "Hegnau", ortsnamen.ch (viewed 26 September 2026): interpretation, and dated attestations from about 1150 ("Hegenowa"), 1282 ("Johannes de Hegnowe"), 1437 ("Hans Hegnoͧwer von Hegnoͧw", Die Steuerbücher von Stadt und Landschaft Zürich, vol. II, p. 500) and 1680 ("Hegnawerin", Staatsarchiv Zürich E III 60.1). ↩
5. Urkundenbuch der Stadt und Landschaft Zürich, vol. IV, 1265–1276 (Zürich, 1898), no. 1343, pp. 53–54, charter of 10 March 1267 (original in the Staatsarchiv Zürich), and the index under "Heginou"; Bavarian State Library digital copy, digitale-sammlungen.de/de/view/bsb00073416 (accessed 27 September 2026). ↩
6. Verein Ortsgeschichte Volketswil (VOV), "Hegnau" (village timeline, accessed 27 September 2026). ↩
7. Odilo Ringholz, Geschichte des fürstlichen Benediktinerstiftes U. L. F. von Einsiedeln, vol. 1 (Einsiedeln: Benziger, 1904), under the year 1244; Internet Archive, archive.org/details/MN5062ucmf_1, image 188 (accessed 27 September 2026). ↩
8. Die Steuerbücher von Stadt und Landschaft Zürich des XIV. und XV. Jahrhunderts (Staatsarchiv des Kantons Zürich, 1918–1958): vol. I (1357–1376), p. 172, no. 194a, Neumarkt 1366, "Johans Hegenower", and p. 200, Rennweg 1366, "Hegnöwer"; pp. 338, 388, 440, Linden 1372–75, "Hegnöwerin", sister of Cuni Schönöwert (Internet Archive); vol. VIII, register to vols. III–VII (1450–1470), entry "Hegnauer" (Internet Archive). ↩
9. Gemeinde Volketswil, "Chappeli – Schulstube", Volketswil Online: Raumreservation (accessed 27 September 2026): the restored schoolroom on the first floor, Alte Gasse 5, 8604 Hegnau. ↩
10. Verein Ortsgeschichte Volketswil (VOV), 200 Jahre Schule Chappeli (booklet of the jubilee exhibition, Volketswil, 2010), PDF, pp. 14–15 (pages of the PDF; the booklet has no printed page numbers; accessed 27 September 2026). ↩
11. Jordi and Strub, Vom Guggu, p. 24. ↩
12. Ingrid Bigler-Marschall, "Vogel, Traugott," Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz (HLS), version of 2011 (edited 12 August 2013), hls-dhs-dss.ch/de/articles/012369/2013-08-12 (accessed 27 September 2026). ↩
13. VOV, 200 Jahre Schule Chappeli, pp. 16, 30. ↩
14. VOV, 200 Jahre Schule Chappeli, p. 35. ↩
15. Zivilstandsamt Volketswil, wedding-venue listing "Chappeli Volketswil", hochzeit.ch (accessed 27 September 2026). It describes the Chappeli as a building of the early 13th century with a characteristic onion-helm tower (Zwiebelhelm-Turm), where councillors once met and farm children learned their ABC. It also lists the Freiherren-Stube, the former schoolroom and the Guggunäscht at Alte Gasse 5. ↩
16. VOV, 200 Jahre Schule Chappeli, p. 6. ↩
17. VOV, 200 Jahre Schule Chappeli, p. 9. ↩
18. VOV, 200 Jahre Schule Chappeli, p. 10. ↩
19. VOV, 200 Jahre Schule Chappeli, p. 1. ↩
20. Jordi and Strub, Vom Guggu, pp. 20–21. ↩
21. Jordi and Strub, Vom Guggu, pp. 8–10, 12, 19–21, 24. ↩
22. Jordi and Strub, Vom Guggu, pp. 6–7. ↩
23. Jordi and Strub, Vom Guggu, pp. 8–9. ↩
24. Jordi and Strub, Vom Guggu, p. 10. ↩
25. Jordi and Strub, Vom Guggu, p. 12. ↩
26. Jordi and Strub, Vom Guggu, pp. 13–15. ↩
27. Jordi and Strub, Vom Guggu, p. 16. ↩
28. Jordi and Strub, Vom Guggu, p. 18. ↩
29. Jordi and Strub, Vom Guggu, p. 19, from the Volketswiler Neujahrsblatt of 1974. ↩
30. Jordi and Strub, Vom Guggu, p. 22. ↩
31. Jordi and Strub, Vom Guggu, p. 23. ↩
32. Jordi and Strub, Vom Guggu, pp. 26–33. ↩
33. Rosmarie Zeller, "Reithard, Johann Jakob," Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz (HLS), version of 2009 (edited 18 August 2010), hls-dhs-dss.ch/de/articles/012212/2010-08-18 (accessed 27 September 2026). ↩
34. Viktor Schobinger, Alfred Egli and Hans Kläui, Zürcher Familiennamen: Entstehung, Verbreitung und Bedeutung der Namen alteingesessener Zürcher Familien (Zürich: Zürcher Kantonalbank, 1994), p. 85, entry Hegnauer: "C. dictus Hegenower", 1281 (seen in Google Books snippet view, 27 September 2026). ↩
35. Rätisches Namenbuch, vol. 3: Die Personennamen Graubündens, ed. Konrad Huber (Bern: Francke, 1986; Romanica Helvetica 101), p. 565, entry "Hegnauer": the name derived from "Hegnau, Dorf, Gde. Volketswil"; "Albertus dictus Ischener et dictus Hegnower", Pfäfers, 1282 (seen in Google Books snippet view, 27 September 2026). ↩
36. E. L. Rochholz (ed.), Die Aargauer Gessler in Urkunden von 1250 bis 1513 (Heilbronn, 1877), documents of 17 March 1399, 27 May 1399 and 22 March 1413, and the note on the Endingen tithe granted as a fief to Johannes von Hegnau on 17 January 1363; Internet Archive (accessed 27 September 2026). ↩
37. Hegnauer One-Name Study, occurrence index and family maps (unpublished; kept by the study coordinator), as of 27 September 2026. Most Swiss entries are FamilySearch index entries that have not yet been checked against the register images. ↩
38. FamilySearch Catalog, "Kirchenbuch, 1588–1801", Evangelisch-Reformierte Kirche Volketswil (Zürich): Taufen, Heiraten, Tote 1588–1801, filmed from the manuscripts in the Stadtarchiv Zürich, film 889427, item 1 (image group DGS 8120584), familysearch.org/search/catalog/227192 (accessed 27 September 2026). FamilySearch's index gives the place of these entries only as "Schweiz", which it standardizes as "Schwyz". ↩
39. "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418–1996," database, FamilySearch, baptism of Hans Hegnanwer [Hegnauer], 25 July 1590, [Volketswil, Zürich]; father Clinhans Hegnanwer (Volketswil church book, DGS 8120584, image 278). FamilySearch record 6FZR-GSHL ↩
40. "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418–1996," database, FamilySearch, baptism of Jacob, son of Felix Hegnauwer [Hegnauer] and Elsbeth "Woffinspach" [Wolfensberger], [Volketswil, Zürich], 13 February 1603: father's entry FamilySearch record 6FZR-CQ1J ↩
41. "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418–1996," database, FamilySearch, marriage of Andreas Hegenuaer [Hegnauer] and Anna Überhart [Eberhart], 21 February 1634, [Volketswil, Zürich] (Volketswil church book, DGS 8120584). FamilySearch record 6F8M-HNKD; marriage of Marx Hegauer [Hegnauer] and Cleophea "Schner" [Isler], 7 February 1637, [Volketswil]. FamilySearch record 6F8M-8L1S ↩
42. "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418–1996," database, FamilySearch, burial of Hans Jacob Hegnauwer [Hegnauer], 27 April 1736, [Volketswil, Zürich]; born 1706 (Volketswil church book, DGS 8120584). FamilySearch record 6FZB-YMWP ↩
43. "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418–1996," database, FamilySearch, baptism of Anna Hegnoüwer, 3 September 1553, Elgg, Zürich; parents Hans Hegnoüwer and Margreta Wister. FamilySearch record 66VS-87W8 ↩
44. Familiennamenbuch der Schweiz, 3rd ed. (Zürich, 1989), online at familiennamenbuch.ch (Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz), entry "Hegnauer", consulted 27 September 2026. It lists every family holding citizenship in a Swiss commune in 1962: Elgg ZH and Seengen AG (both acquired before 1800); Aarau AG 1891, Basel 1900 and 1908, Mettmenstetten ZH 1910 and Zürich 1935 and 1953 (all from Seengen); Zürich 1932 and 1959 (from Elgg); Kandergrund BE 1941 (origin not stated). ↩
45. "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418–1996," database, FamilySearch, baptism of Bläsius Glaz, 24 August 1647, Uster, Zürich; parents Uli Glaz and Anna Hegnauer. FamilySearch record 66VM-KYPY ↩
46. "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418–1996," database, FamilySearch, marriage of Hans Heinrich Hegnaüer and Dorothea Meyer, 26 September 1730, Uster, Zürich; groom's father Peter. FamilySearch record 66VW-F6BZ ↩
47. "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418–1996," database, FamilySearch, marriage of Jacob Hagenauwer [Hegnauer] and Margredt Hartmann, 1 March 1715, Igis, Graubünden (Igis church book, FamilySearch DGS 8014188, image 159). FamilySearch record 66VW-81M1 ↩
48. Hegnauer One-Name Study, search of FamilySearch's index of the Igis church book (DGS 8014188, registers from 1616) under every spelling of the name, 27 September 2026: no Hegnauer entry before 1 March 1715. ↩
49. "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418–1996," database, FamilySearch, marriage of Hanss Hegmaner [Hegnauer] and Elssbetha Bosshart, 23 April 1684, [Volketswil, Zürich] (DGS 8120584, image 430). FamilySearch record 6F8M-469X; baptism of Elsbeth Hegenauwer, 9 January 1689, Elgg, Zürich; parents Hans Heinrich Hegenauwer and Lisabeth "Buethant" [Bosshart]. FamilySearch record 66VS-RNB3; baptism of Hs Heinrich Hagnauwer, February 1691, Elgg; parents Hans Heinrich Hagnauwer and Lisabeth Busshart [Bosshart]. FamilySearch record 66VS-13X7 ↩
50. "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418–1996," database, FamilySearch, baptism of Jacob Hegneüwer [Hegnauer], 5 February 1682, [Volketswil, Zürich]; parents Hans Hegneüwer and Cathri "Lühner" (DGS 8120584, image 356). FamilySearch record 6FZR-GXBM ↩
51. Bürgergemeinde Landquart, "Die Igiser Bürgergeschlechter", headed "(Stand 1854 nach den Zwangseinbürgerungen)" (the Igis citizen families as they stood in 1854), entry Hegnauer (viewed 27 September 2026): "ein Herkunftsname von Hegnau, Gemeinde Volketswil, Bezirk Uster". ↩
52. "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418–1996," database, FamilySearch, baptism of Joannes Hegnoren, 6 August 1548, Fehraltorf, Zürich; father Jacob Hegnoren. FamilySearch record 6F8H-S3SK; and baptism of Margaretha Hegnorer, 2 March 1550, Fehraltorf; father Jacob Hegnorer. FamilySearch record 6F84-R1JR (index entries; the images have not been seen). ↩