Baden Parish, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Baden Parish, Aargau, Switzerland, ancestry, family history, and genealogy: birth records, marriage records, death records, parish census, civil census, family history, area history, and military records.



Catholic
The Catholic parish was first mentioned in 1241. It includes the former municipality of Dättwil, and included the municipality of Ennetbaden until 1966.

Reformed
The Reformed church in Baden was built in 1714.

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

Dättwil was a separate municipality until 1962, when it became part of Baden. During these censuses, it was enumerated separately. The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Baden and Dättwil:

Baden

 * 1837 (images 368-390)
 * 1850: Form A (images 502-570)
 * 1850: Form B (images 571-572)

Dättwil

 * 1837 (images 417-421)
 * 1850: Form A (images 638-648)
 * 1850: Form B (image 649)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Baden prior to 1875:

Related sources
The town's website (in German) can be found here.

Libraries and archives
State Archives of Aargau

Societies
Genealogical-Heraldic Society of Zürich (GHGZ)