Birmenstorf Parish, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Birmenstorf 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 Birmenstorf is in the district of Baden in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland. It is situated in the Baden district, in the valley of the Reuss near its confluence with the Aare and 4 km (2.5 mi) west-south-west from Baden. It includes the village of Birmenstorf and the hamlets of Lindmühle, Muntwil, Müslen, and Oberhard as well as a new housing development.

Birmenstorf (as of 2006) has an area of 7.7 km² (3.0 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 44% - agricultural purposes
 * 36.8% - forested
 * 15.8% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * 3.4% - non-productive (rivers or lakes)

History
In 1146, Birmenstorf was first mentioned by the name of Birbovermesdorf.

The population history of Birmenstorf is: 1799 - 630 inhabitants 1850 - 992 inhabitants 1900 - 919 inhabitants 1950 - 1,197 inhabitants 2000 - 2,313 inhabitants 2020 - 2,962 inhabitants

Per the 2000 census:
 * 47.9% were Roman Catholic
 * 33.1% were Swiss Reformed Church
 * 0.30% were Christian Catholic Church

The church was divided at the Reformation with one-third adopting the new faith. The church was used by both denominations until two new churches were constructed in 1935-36.

Catholic
The Catholic parish, named St. Leodegar, was first mentioned in 1363.

Original church records are located onsite at the Birmenstorf municipal archive. Microfilm copies of the following church records are available onsite at the Aargau State Archives:
 * Birmenstorf: baptisms, marriages 1657-1794; burials 1659-1794; confirmations 1662-1710, 1731-1742, 1780
 * Gebenstorf and Turgi: baptisms, marriages, burials 1657-1794; confirmations 1684-1695

The following church records are only available onsite at the Birmenstorf municipal archive:
 * Birmenstorf: baptisms, marriages, burials 1794-1858; confirmations 1797-1856
 * Gebenstorf and Turgi: baptisms 1794-1859; marriages, burials 1794-1854; confirmations 1797-1856
 * Baptisms 1817-1854
 * Baptisms 1854-1875
 * Marriages 1817-1852
 * Marriages 1853-1875
 * Marriages non-resident citizens 1817-1852
 * Burials 1817-1875

Post-1875 church records, as well as the following church records, are found onsite at the Birmenstorf parish church office.
 * Baptisms 1794-1816; Gebenstorf baptisms 1817-1875
 * Banns 1817-1852
 * Burials 1861-1876
 * Family book 1818-1859

Reformed
About a third of the residents of Birmenstorf were Reformed; they belonged to the parish of Gebenstorf. See Gebenstorf for more information.

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Birmenstorf:
 * 1837 (images 401-411)
 * 1850: Form A (images 602-626)
 * 1850: Form B (image 627)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Birmenstorf 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)