Thalheim Parish, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Thalheim 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 municipality of Thalheim is in the district of Brugg in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland. It consists of the settlement of Thalheim located at the bottom of a valley and many individual farms.

Thalheim (as of 2009) has an area of 9.91 km² (3.83 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 49.9% - agricultural purposes
 * 43.5% - forested
 * 5.8% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * 0.1% - non-productive (either rivers or lakes)

History
In 1064, Thalheim was first mentioned by the name of Taleheim (copy from the 17th century). In 1179, it was also mentioned by the name of Talheim.

The population history of Thalheim is: 1764 - 461 inhabitants 1850 - 1,117 inhabitants 1900 - 845 inhabitants 1950 - 653 inhabitants 1975 - 551 inhabitants 1980 - 565 inhabitants 1990 - 645 inhabitants 2000 - 758 inhabitants 2020 - 820 inhabitants

Per the 2000 census:
 * 12.6% belonged to the Roman Catholic Church
 * 76.6% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church

The core of the Roman church was consecrated to Peter, the Lordship of Kasteln owned the church property. Thalheim has always had its own parish.

Church Records
The parish of Thalheim was ancient. Thalheim became reformed in the 1520s.

Original church records are located onsite at the Thalheim municipal archive. Microfilm copies of the following church records are available onsite at the Aargau State Archives:
 * Baptisms 1611-1626; marriages 1611-1629; burials 1611-1622
 * Baptisms, marriages 1626-1699; burials 1643-1699
 * Baptisms, marriages, burials 1700-1754; confirmations 1713-1753
 * Baptisms 1755-1764
 * Baptisms 1765-1811
 * Baptisms 1812-1816; baptisms non-resident citizens 1810-1824, 1836-1875
 * Baptisms 1817-1871
 * Marriages 1755-1811
 * Marriages 1812-1816; banns 1817-1852
 * Marriages 1817-1852
 * Marriages 1853-1875
 * Marriages non-resident citizens 1817-1871
 * Burials 1755-1811
 * Burials 1812-1816; burials non-resident citizens 1849-1875
 * Burials 1817-1875

Post-1875 church records, as well as the following church records, are found onsite at the Thalheim parish church office:
 * Confirmations 1755-1811
 * Confirmations 1812-1913
 * Family book, 1812-1818, 1901-1906

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Thalheim:
 * 1837 (images 351-371)
 * 1850: Form A (images 400-427)
 * 1850: Form B (images 428-429)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Thalheim 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)