Brunegg, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Brunegg, 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 Brunegg is in the district of Lenzburg in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland. The municipality is situated in the Lenzburg district, on the southern edge of the Birrfeld. It includes the Haufendorf village (an irregular, unplanned and quite closely packed village, built around a central square) of Brunegg and Brunegg Castle on a ridge of the nearby Kestenberg mountain.

Brunegg (as of 2009) has an area of 1.56 km² (0.60 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 41.7% - agricultural purposes
 * 25.6% - forested
 * 29.5% - settled (buildings or roads)

History
In the first half of the 12th century, Brunegg was first mentioned by the name of Bruneco. In 1273, it was mentioned as Brunegge.

The population history of Brunegg is: 1798 - 180 inhabitants 1850 - 277 inhabitants 1870 - 305 inhabitants 1900 - 244 inhabitants 1920 - 224 inhabitants 1950 - 297 inhabitants 2020 - 866 inhabitants

Per the 2000 census:
 * 23.8% were Roman Catholic
 * 59.7% were Swiss Reformed Church

Originally it belonged to the Windisch parish, though since 1526 it has been part of the Birr parish. In 1967, Brunegg adopted the Reformed Church.

Church Records
Brunegg belongs to the parish of Birr. See Birr for more information.

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Brunegg:
 * 1837 (images 226-230)
 * 1850: Form A (images 36-42)
 * 1850: Form B (image 43)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Birrhard 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 Bern (GHGB)