Baldingen, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Baldingen, 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 Baldingen is in the Zurzach district and the Aargau canton. It is located on a high plateau in Studenland, between the Surbtal and the Rhine. It includes the communities of Unterbaldingen (elevation 460 m (1,510 ft)) on the east slope of the hill and Oberbaldingen (elevation 559 m (1,834 ft)) on the crest of Mount Spornegg. Neighboring municipalities are Rekingen to the north, Unterendingen to the south, Böbikon to the east, Lengnau to the south-east, and Tegerfelden to the west.

Baldingen (as of 2009) has an area of 2.83 km² (1.09 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 56.9% - agricultural purposes
 * 31.1% - forested
 * 11.3% - settled (buildings or roads)

History
In 1317, Baldingen was first mentioned by the name of Baldingen. Baldingen is in the Zurzach district and the Aargau canton.

Baldingen merged into the Zurzach municipality on 1 January 2022. Other municipalities merged include:
 * Bad Zurzach
 * Böbikon
 * Kaiserstuhl
 * Rekingen
 * Rietheim
 * Rümikon
 * Wislikofen

The population history of Baldingen is: 1799 - 236 inhabitants 1850 - 336 inhabitants 1900 - 183 inhabitants 1950 - 182 inhabitants 1980 - 144 inhabitants 2000 - 249 inhabitants 2010 - 291 inhabitants 2020 - 267 inhabitants 2021 - 267 inhabitants

Per the 2000 census:
 * 48.6% were Roman Catholic
 * 30.1% were Swiss Reformed Church

Until 1883, Baldingen belonged to the St. Verene parish in Zurzach. In 1883, Baldingen joined with Böbikon to form their own parish. In 1898, the parish church of St. Agatha was built.

Church Records
Baldingen belonged to the parish of Zurzach until 1883, when its parish church St. Agatha became independent. Some earlier records were kept separately. See Zurzach for more information.

Original church records are located onsite at the Baldingen parish church office. Microfilm copies of the following church records are available onsite at the Aargau State Archives:
 * Baptisms 1647-1787; marriagers 1718-1786; burials 1716-1808; confirmations 1707-1753
 * Baptisms 1716-1840; marriages 1718-1836; burials 1716-1835; confirmations 1797-1865

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

Post-1875 church records are found onsite at the Baldingen parish church office.

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Baldingen:
 * 1837 (images 534-538)
 * 1850: Form A (images 378-385)
 * 1850: Form B (image 386)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Baldingen 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)