Veltheim Parish, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Veltheim 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 Veltheim is in the Brugg district and the Aargau canton. It is located on the left bank of the Aar and at the outlet of the Schenkenberg valley. The municipality includes the village of Veltheim, part of the Au hamlet, and the Wildenstein castle.

Veltheim (as of 2009) has an area of 5.24 km² (2.02 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 47.5% - agricultural purposes
 * 32.3% - forested
 * 15.5% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * 3.4% - river or lakes
 * 0.6% - non-productive

History
In 1261, Veltheim was first mentioned by the name of Velthein. Veltheim is in the Brugg district and the Aargau canton.

The population history of Veltheim is: 1764 - 353 inhabitants 1850 - 637 inhabitants 1900 - 565 inhabitants 1950 - 686 inhabitants 1975 - 1,044 inhabitants 1980 - 1,014 inhabitants 1990 - 1,219 inhabitants 2000 - 1,379 inhabitants 2020 - 1,526 inhabitants

Per the 2000 census:
 * 25.4% were Roman Catholic
 * 55.0% were Swiss Reformed Church
 * 0.15% were Christian Catholic Church

In 1760, the church of Saint-Jean-Baptiste was replaced with a smaller chapel.

Church Records
The parish of Veltheim was first mentioned in the 11th century. It became Reformed in the 1520s. It includes the municipality of Oberflachs.

Original church records are located onsite at the Veltheim municipal archive. Microfilm copies of the following church records are available onsite at the Aargau State Archives:
 * Baptisms 1582-1600; marriages 1582-1600; burials 1598-1600
 * Baptisms 1629-1680; marriages 1647-1680; burials 1646-1880
 * Baptisms, marriages 1681-1721; burials 1686-1720; confirmations 1694-1696, 1702-1720
 * Baptisms, marriages 1721-17991
 * Baptisms 1791-1816; baptisms non-resident citizens 1817-1875
 * Baptisms 1817-1872
 * Baptisms 1873-1875
 * Marriages 1791-1816; banns 1816-1853
 * Marriages 1817-1852
 * Marriages 1852-1875
 * Marriages, non-resident citizens 1817-1873
 * Burials 1721-1799; confirmations 1725-1804
 * Burials 1800-1816
 * Burials 1817-1875

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

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Veltheim:
 * 1837 (images 375-387)
 * 1850: Form A (images 437-452)
 * 1850: Form B (image 453)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Veltheim 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)