Magden Parish, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Magden 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 Magden (Swiss German: Magde) is in the district of Rheinfelden in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland. Magden is situated in the Rheinfelden district, in the Fricktal. It includes the haufendorf village (an irregular, unplanned, and quite closely packed village, built around a central square) of Magden and the hamlets of Igligerhof and Deschlikon.

Magden (as of 2009) has an area of 11.01 km² (4.25 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 47.1% - agricultural purposes
 * 41.9% - forested
 * 11.0% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * 0.2% - either rivers or lakes

History
In 804, Magden was first mentioned by the name of in curte Magaduninse.

The population history of Magden is: 1768 - 689 inhabitants 1850 - 1,075 inhabitants 1900 - 894 inhabitants 1950 - 975 inhabitants 1960 - 1,107 inhabitants 2000 - 3,043 inhabitants 2020 - 3,872 inhabitants

Per the 2000 census:
 * 27.5% belonged to the Roman Catholic Church
 * 40.1% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church
 * 12.91% belonged to the Christian Catholic faith

The original village church of St. Martin was built during the Frankish Empire (481-843). The current church was constructed in 1620. In 1806, the church came under the authority of the Canton of Aargau. In 1872, the majority of the villagers adopted the Christian Catholic faith. Then, in 1906 the Christian Catholic congregation took charge over the church. A Catholic church was constructed in 1969 and a Reformed church was constructed in 1976.

Church Records
The parish church, St. Martin, in Magden was built in 1620.

Original church records are located onsite at the Magden Christian Catholic parish church office. Microfilm copies of the following church records are available onsite at the Aargau State Archives:
 * Baptisms 1611-1614, 1618-1682; confirmations 1649-1660
 * Marriages 1611-1651, 1656-1682; burials 1611-1652, 1658-1682
 * Baptisms 1682-1806; confirmations 1684-1765
 * Marriages, burials 1682-1784

The following church records are only available onsite at the Magen municipal archive:
 * Baptisms 1817-1875
 * Marriages 1784-1815
 * Marriages 1817-1852
 * Marriages non-resident citizens 1817-1852
 * Burials 1784-1815
 * Burials 1817-1875

Post-1875 church records, as well as the following church record, are found onsite at the Magden Christian Catholic parish church office.
 * Baptisms 1784-1816

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Magden:
 * 1837 (images 765-786)
 * 1850: Form A (images 141-169)
 * 1850: Form B (images 170-173)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Magden 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 Region Basel (GHGRB)