Spreitenbach Parish, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Spreitenbach 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
Spreitenbach belonged to the Catholic parish of Dietikon until 1861, when it was established as an independent parish. The parish church is called St. Kosmas und Damian. See Dietikon for earlier records.

The following church records, as well as all post-1875 church records, are available onsite in the Spreitenbach Catholic parish church office:
 * Baptisms 1861-1875
 * Marriages 1861-1875
 * Burials 1861-1875

Reformed
Reformed residents of Spreitenbach belonged to the parish of Urdorf until 1940, when it was established as an independent parish. Extracts of baptisms for Spreitenbach and Killwangen from 1817 onward are available onsite at the Spreitenbach parish church office. See Urdorf for more information.

Census
Two different types of censuses were taken in Spreitenbach at different times.

Religious Censuses
See here for article describing the Zürich census records.

Reformed residents of Spreitenbach belonged to the parish of Urdorf. See Urdorf for more information. The following censuses are available for Reformed residents of Spreitenbach:

Residential Censuses
(See here for information regarding Aargau census records.)

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Spreitenbach:
 * 1837 (images 555-565)
 * 1850: Form A (images 154-170)
 * 1850: Form B (image 171)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Spreitenbach 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)