Tegerfelden Parish, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Tegerfelden 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 Tegerfelden is in the district of Zurzach in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland. It is located in the Surb river valley on the roads to Döttingen and Bad Zurzach.

Tegerfelden (as of 2009) has an area of 7.11 km² (2.75 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 51.5% - agricultural purposes
 * 37.0% - forested
 * 10.0% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * 0.8% - non-productive (either rivers or lakes)

History
In 851, Tegerfelden was first mentioned by the name of Tegerfelt. In 1150, it was also mentioned by the name of Tegervelt.

The population history of Tegerfelden is: 1799 - 702 inhabitants 1850 - 757 inhabitants 1900 - 577 inhabitants 1950 - 579 inhabitants 1975 - 654 inhabitants 1980 - 678 inhabitants 1990 - 827 inhabitants 2000 - 970 inhabitants 2020 - 1,202 inhabitants

Per the 2000 census:
 * 54.8% belonged to the Roman Catholic
 * 34.7% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church

In 1257, the first chapel is mentioned as belonging to the parish of Zurzach. A newer church was built in 1664. Tegerfelden remained partially reformed after the Reformation.

Catholic
The Catholic parish of Tegerfelden was first mentioned in 1257. After the Reformation, the town was mixed and the parish became Reformed. Catholics belonged to the parish of Unterendingen. See Unterendingen for more information.

Reformed
The Reformed parish included the minority Reformed residents in the municipalities of Baldingen, Endingen, and Unterendingen.

Original church records are located onsite at the Tegerfelden municipal archive. Microfilm copies of the following church records are available onsite at the Aargau State Archives:
 * Baptisms, marriages 1640-1714; burials 1659-1714; confirmations 1692-1714
 * Baptisms, marriages, burials, confirmations 1715-1770
 * Baptisms, marriages, burials 1771-1816; non-resident baptisms, burials 1817-1875; confirmations 1794-1814
 * Baptisms 1817-1875
 * Marriages 1817-1852
 * Marriages 1853-1875
 * Burials 1817-1875

Microfilm and digital copies of the following typescript is available online at FamilySearch (with possible viewing restrictions):
 * Church entries 1771-1816, 1819-1870 (images 4-148)

Post-1875 church records, as well as the following church records, are found onsite at the Surbtal parish church office.
 * Marriages 1815-1852
 * Family book Tegerfelden 1786-1802
 * Family book Oberendingen 1786-1792
 * Family book Unterendingen 1786-1796
 * Family book Baldingen 1819-1849
 * Family book Tegerfelden 1849-1902
 * Family book Unterendingen 1849-1919
 * Family book Baldingen 1849-1908

Church Records
An inventory of the parish records for Canton Aargau can be found here.

Two different types of censuses were taken in Tegerfelden at different times.

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

The following censuses are available for Tegerfelden:

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Tegerfelden:
 * 1837 (images 551-562)
 * 1850: Form A (images 750-768)
 * 1850: Form B (images 769-774)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Tegerfelden 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)