Stetten, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Stetten, 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 Stetten is in the district of Baden in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland. It is situated at the western foot of the Heitersberg on the Reuss. It consists of the village of the same name and the hamlet of Eichhof.

Stetten (as of 2006) has an area of 4.4 km² (1.7 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 50.2% - agricultural purposes
 * 27.7% - forested
 * 16.7% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * 5.4% - non-productive (rivers or lakes)

History
In 1255, Stetten was first mentioned by the name of Szczecin.

The population history of Stetten is: 1850 - 498 inhabitants 1900 - 429 inhabitants 1950 - 510 inhabitants 1975 - 960 inhabitants 1980 - 972 inhabitants 1990 - 1,407 inhabitants 2000 - 1,587 inhabitants 2020 - 2,224 inhabitants

Per the 2000 census:
 * 53.7% belonged to the Roman Catholic Church
 * 25.5% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church

Stetten did not adopt the Reformation and was cared for spiritually by the branch chapel belonging to the parish of Rohrdorf. In 1881-84, the church of St. Vinzenz was constructed. In 1888, Stetten became an independent parish.

Church Records
Stetten belonged to the parish of Oberrohrdorf until 1888. See Oberrohrdorf for more information.

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Stetten:
 * 1837 (images 565-572)
 * 1850: Form A (images 172-183)
 * 1850: Form B (image 184)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Stetten 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)