Bözen Parish, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Bözen 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.



Geography
The former municipality of Bözen (Romansh: Bulsaun / Italian: Bolzano) is in the Brugg district and the Aargau canton. It is located on the slopes of the Bözberg. The municipality includes the linear village of Bözen.

Bözen (as of 2006) has an area of 3.95 km² (1.53 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 66.1% - agricultural purposes
 * 21.8% - forested
 * 11.1% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * 0.3% - non-productive

History
In 1284, Bözen was first mentioned by the name of Boze. Bözen (Romansh: Bulsaun / Italian: Bolzano) is in the Brugg district and the Aargau canton.

Bözen merged into the Böztal municipality on 1 January 2022. Other municipalities merged include:
 * Effingen
 * Elfingen
 * Hornussen

The population history of Bözen is: 1764 - 361 inhabitants 1850 - 539 inhabitants 1900 - 376 inhabitants 1941 - 347 inhabitants 1950 - 383 inhabitants 1980 - 372 inhabitants 2000 - 657 inhabitants 2010 - 685 inhabitants 2020 - 804 inhabitants

Per the 2000 census:
 * 20.9% were Roman Catholic
 * 58.3% were Swiss Reformed Church
 * 0.30% were Christian Catholic Church

In 1381, chapel of Bözen was first mentioned. Bözen originally belonged to the Elfingen parish. In 1600, the parish was transferred to Bözen.

Church Records
The parish of Bözen was established in 1600. It includes the municipalities of Effingen and Elfingen, as well as Densbüren (until 1642) and Linn (until 1649). Original church records are located onsite at the Böztal municipal archive. Microfilm copies of the following church records are available onsite at the Aargau State Archives:
 * Baptisms, marriages 1562-1604
 * Baptisms, marriages 1604-1685; burials 1604-1629, 1644, 1668-1669
 * Baptisms, marriages 1685-1757; burials 1704-1757; confirmations 1731-1751
 * Baptisms 1751-1814; baptisms non-resident citizens 1819-1827
 * Baptisms 1815-1875
 * Marriages 1731-1816; banns 1817-1852
 * Marriages 1817-1852
 * Marriages 1853-1875
 * Marriages, non-resident citizens 1817-1875
 * Burials 1750-1816
 * Burials 1817-1875

Post-1875 church records are found onsite at the Bözen parish church office, as well as the following volume:
 * Family book, Bözen, Effingen, Elfingen 1757-1826

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Bözen:
 * 1837 (images 216-226)
 * 1850: Form A (images 96-109)
 * 1850: Form B (images 110-111)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Bözen 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 Bern (GHGB)