Gipf-Oberfrick, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Gipf-Oberfrick, 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 Gipf-Oberfrick is in the district of Laufenburg in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland. It is situated in the Laufenburg district, in the upper Fricktal (Frick river valley). It includes the villages of Gipf and Oberfrick.

Gipf-Oberfrick (as of 2009) has an area of 10.18 km² (3.93 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 49.1% - agricultural purposes
 * 40.7% - forested
 * 10.1% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * 0.3% - either rivers or lakes

History
In 1259, Gipf was first mentioned by the name of Cubibe. It was mentioned as Gipff in 1276, and in 1278 as Guffpha. In 1288, Oberfrick was first mentioned by the name of Obiren Vrieche.

The population history of Gipf-Oberfrick is: 1768 - 588 inhabitants 1850 - 1,050 inhabitants 1900 - 851 inhabitants 1950 - 954 inhabitants 2000 - 2,808 inhabitants 2020 - 3,731 inhabitants

Per the 2000 census:
 * 54.4% were Roman Catholic
 * 29.3% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church
 * 0.53% belonged to the Christian Catholic Church

Gipf and Frick were consolidated in one parish, until 1953, when an independent Gipf-Oberfrick parish was created. St. Wendelin's chapel was constructed in 1708, and a parish church was built in 1968–70.

Church Records
Gipf-Oberfrick belonged to the parish of Frick until 1953. See Frick for more information.

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Gipf-Oberfrick:
 * 1837 (images 736-755)
 * 1850: Form A (images 377-402)
 * 1850: Form B (images 403-404)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Gipf-Oberfrick 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)