Obermumpf Parish, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy



Description: Guide to Obermumpf 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 Obermumpf is in the district of Rheinfelden in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland. The municipality is situated in the Fricktal (Frick river valley). It includes the linear village of Obermumpf.

Obermumpf (as of 2009) has an area of 5.03 km² (1.94 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 52.7% - agricultural purposes
 * 38.2% - forested
 * 9.1% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * 0.2% - either rivers or lakes

History
In 1302-04, Obermumpf was first mentioned by the name of Obermumphier.

The population history of Obermumpf is: 1768 - 267 inhabitants 1850 - 508 inhabitants 1900 - 503 inhabitants 1950 - 595 inhabitants 1990 - 850 inhabitants 2000 - 980 inhabitants 2020 - 1,048 inhabitants

Per the 2000 census:
 * 56.2% belonged to the Roman Catholic Church
 * 16.3% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church
 * 14.08% belonged to the Christian Catholic faith

The Church of St. Peter and Paul, whose patronage rights originally were part of the collegiate church of Säckingen, has a tower from 1494 and a nave from 1738. The original church, from the 8th Century, was constructed on the foundations of a Roman estate. Since 1889, it has been the heart of the Christian Catholic parish of Obermumpf-Wallbach. In 1893-94, a catholic church was built, and was reconstructed in 1962.

Church Records
The parish of Obermumpf was first mentioned in 1494; the parish church is called Peter und Paul.

The following church records are available onsite in the Obermumpf parish church office:
 * Baptisms 1668-1787; marriages 1670-1786; burials 1685-1787; confirmations 1684-1776
 * Baptisms, marriages, burials 1787-1835; confirmations 1791-1865
 * Marriages non-resident citizens 1823-1861

The following church records are available onsite in the Rheinfelden civil registration office:
 * Baptisms 1784-1820
 * Marriages 1817-1855
 * Marriages 1853-1875

The following church records are available onsite in the Obermumpf municipal archive:
 * Baptisms 1817-1875
 * Marriages, 1785-1820; banns 1836-1868
 * Burials 1784-1820
 * Burials 1817-1875

Post-1875 church records are found onsite at the Obermumpf parish church office.

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Obermumpf:
 * 1837 (images 795-802)
 * 1850: Form A (images 242-254)
 * 1850: Form B (image 256)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Obermumpf 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 Region Basel (GHGRB)