Ennetbaden, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Ennetbaden, 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 Ennetbaden (German: Limmattal) is in the district of Baden in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland It is located in the Limmat Valley on the right bank of the Limmat river. It includes the village of Ennetbaden which is a suburb of Baden.

Ennetbaden (as of 2006) has an area of 2.1 km² (0.81 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 20.9% - agricultural purposes
 * 42.7% - forested
 * 33.6% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * 2.8% - non-productive

History
In 1261-64, Ennetbaden was first mentioned by the name of Alio Badin.

The population history of Ennetbaden is: 1850 - 451 inhabitants 1900 - 997 inhabitants 1910 - 1,387 inhabitants 1930 - 2,223 inhabitants 1950 - 2,566 inhabitants 1975 - 2,712 inhabitants 1980 - 2,534 inhabitants 1990 - 2,915 inhabitants 2000 - 3,019 inhabitants 2020 - 3,486 inhabitants

Per the 2000 census:
 * 40.7% were Roman Catholic
 * 32.5% were Swiss Reformed Church

Until the formation of a separate Catholic Parish in 1966, Ennetbaden was a parish in Baden.

Church Records
Ennetbaden belonged to the parish of Baden until 1966. See Baden for more information.

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Ennetbaden:
 * 1837 (images 433-439)
 * 1850: Form A (images 679-690)
 * 1850: Form B (image 691)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Ennetbaden 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)