Spreitenbach Parish, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Spreitenbach 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 Spreitenbach (High Alemannic: Spräitebach) is in the district of Baden in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland. It is situated between Baden and Zurich. It consists of the clustered village of Spreitenbach at the foot of the Heitersberg, the hamlet of Heitersberg and extensive settlement and industrial areas in the Limmat plain.

Spreitenbach (as of 2006) has an area of 8.6 km² (3.3 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 27.8% - agricultural purposes
 * 35.3% - forested
 * 35.5% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * 1.4% - non-productive (rivers or lakes)

History
In 1111-24, Spreitenbach was first mentioned by the name of Spreitinbach.

The population history of Spreitenbach is: 1780 - 383 inhabitants 1850 - 669 inhabitants 1900 - 913 inhabitants 1930 - 1,064 inhabitants 1950 - 1,173 inhabitants 1960 - 1,964 inhabitants 1970 - 5,978 inhabitants 1980 - 7,198 inhabitants 1990 - 8,315 inhabitants 2000 - 9,127 inhabitants 2007 - 10,268 inhabitants 2020 - 12,126 inhabitants

Per the 2000 census:
 * 40.0% were Roman Catholic
 * 20.4% were Reformed
 * 7.9% were Orthodox
 * 14.7% were Muslim

Spreitenbach was subject to a church in Dietikon. The chapel mentioned in the 12th century was used after the Reformation by both denominations. Catholics were in the majority and Wettingen instituted in 1798 a vicar to serve them (separation from Dietikon). Their parish was built in 1861 and the Saints-Cosme-et-Damien church built in 1903. The church returned to the Reformed Church (since 1940 Kirchgem. S.-Killwangen-Bergdietikon).

Catholic
Spreitenbach belonged to the Catholic parish of Dietikon until 1861, when it was established as an independent parish. The parish church is called St. Kosmas und Damian. See Dietikon for earlier records.

The following church records, as well as all post-1875 church records, are available onsite in the Spreitenbach Catholic parish church office:
 * Baptisms 1861-1875
 * Marriages 1861-1875
 * Burials 1861-1875

Reformed
Reformed residents of Spreitenbach belonged to the parish of Urdorf until 1940, when it was established as an independent parish. Extracts of baptisms for Spreitenbach and Killwangen from 1817 onward are available onsite at the Spreitenbach parish church office. See Urdorf for more information.

Census
Two different types of censuses were taken in Spreitenbach at different times.

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

Reformed residents of Spreitenbach belonged to the parish of Urdorf. See Urdorf for more information. The following censuses are available for Reformed residents of Spreitenbach:

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Spreitenbach:
 * 1837 (images 555-565)
 * 1850: Form A (images 154-170)
 * 1850: Form B (image 171)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Spreitenbach 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)