Turgi, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Turgi, 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 Turgi is in the district of Baden in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland. It is located in the Limmat Valley. Wil and the industrial village of Turgi were both part of the municipality of Gebenstorf until 1884.

Turgi (as of 2006) has an area of 1.5 km² (0.58 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 17.6% - agricultural purposes
 * 35.9% - forested
 * 42.5% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * 3.9% - non-productive (rivers or lakes)

History
In 1281, Turgi was first mentioned by the name of Turge.

Until 1884, Wil and the industrial village of Turgi were both part of the municipality of Gebenstorf.

The population history of Turgi is: 1888 - 645 inhabitants 1900 - 877 inhabitants 1950 - 1,642 inhabitants 1975 - 2,702 inhabitants 1980 - 2,638 inhabitants 1990 - 2,616 inhabitants 2000 - 2,446 inhabitants 2020 - 2,963 inhabitants

Per the 2000 census:
 * 43.5% belong to the Roman Catholic Church
 * 24.4% belong to the Swiss Reformed Church
 * 0.13% belong to the Christian Catholic faith

The Catholic parish of Gebenstorf-Turgi has existed since 1911; a section of Turgi was formed within it in 1950. Since 1958, a pastor of the Protestant parish of Birmenstorf-Gebenstorf-Turgi has officiated at Turgi.

Church Records
Turgi belongs to the parish of Gebenstorf. See Gebenstorf for more information.

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

Turgi was established as a municipality in 1884. Earlier censuses were enumerated with Gebenstorf. See Gebenstorf for more information.

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Turgi 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)