Wettingen Parish, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Wettingen 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 former municipality of Wettingen is in the Baden district and the Aargau canton. It is located on the right bank of the Limmat, in the Limmat Valley.

Wettingen (as of 2006) has an area of 10.6 km² (4.1 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 21.6% - agricultural purposes
 * 39.1% - forested
 * 37.6% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * 1.8% - non-productive

History
In 1045, Wettingen was first mentioned by the name of Vuettingun. Wettingen is in the Baden district and the Aargau canton.

The population history of Wettingen is: 1803 - 847 inhabitants 1850 - 1,610 inhabitants 1900 - 3,128 inhabitants 1950 - 11,667 inhabitants 1970 - 19,900 inhabitants 1975 - 19,243 inhabitants 1980 - 18,129 inhabitants 1990 - 17,582 inhabitants 2000 - 17,833 inhabitants 2014 - 20,230 inhabitants 2020 - 21,099 inhabitants

Per the 2000 census:
 * 48.5% were Roman Catholic
 * 26.9% were Swiss Reformed Church
 * 0.22% were Christian Catholic Church

In 1227, the Cistercian abbey was founded. In 1952, the Saint-Antoine church was built.

Church Records
The parish of Wettingen was first mentioned in 1227; the parish church is called St. Sebastian. It included the municipalities of Neuenhof and Killwangen until 1887.

Original church records are located onsite at the Wettingen church parish office. Microfilm copies of the following church records are available onsite at the Aargau State Archives:
 * Baptisms, burials 1651-1735; marriages 1709-1710, 1713-1735; confirmations 1652-1731
 * Baptisms 1735-1841; burials 1831-1840
 * Marriages 1817-1852
 * Marriages 1853-1876
 * Marriages non-citizens 1817-1875
 * Burials 1817-1867
 * Burials 1868-1875
 * Family book Wettingen

The following records, as well as all post-1875 church records, are found onsite at the Wettingen church parish office.
 * Baptisms 1817-1849
 * Baptisms 1850-1875
 * Marriages 1753-1837; burials 1747-1830; confirmations 1753-1917, 1922-1952
 * Banns 1821-1852
 * Family book Killwangen 1821-1848

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Wettingen:
 * 1837 (images 572-588)
 * 1850: Form A (images 185-223)
 * 1850: Form B (image 224)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Wettingen 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)