Ittenthal Parish, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Ittenthal 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 Ittenthal is in the Fricktal Region and the Aargau canton. This is the smallest village in the Fricktal and lies in a hollow at the upper end of a small side valley. The valley opens to the north towards the Rhine Valley and is bordered on three sides by the hills of the Tafeljura. These hills include: to the west is the Frickberg (650 m above sea level), to the south is the Moos (622  m above sea level), and to the east is the Schinberg (722  m above sea level). The municipal boundary followed the edge of the terrain where the Frickberg and the Moos rise steeply in the lower area and merged into gently sloping levels in the upper area.

History
In 1297, Ittenthal was first mentioned by the name of Utendal (a copy from the 15th century). It was also mentioned around 1318 as ze Uttendal.

On February 20, 1802, Ittenthal became a municipality in the district of Laufenburg in the canton of Fricktal, which became part of the Helvetic Republic in August; thus Ittenthal had become Swiss. Since March 19, 1803, the municipality was part of the canton of Aargau. Ittenthal merged into the Kaisten municipality on January 1, 2010.

The population history of Ittenthal is: 1803 - 171 inhabitants 1850 - 265 inhabitants 1900 - 217 inhabitants 1930 - 244 inhabitants 1950 - 221 inhabitants 1960 - 196 inhabitants 1970 - 186 inhabitants 1980 - 200 inhabitants 1990 - 213 inhabitants 2000 - 222 inhabitants

Per the 2000 census:
 * 64.4% were Roman Catholic
 * 23.0% were Reformed

In 1706, the chapel Maria and Josef was dedicated. Until 1812, Ittenthal was part of the parish of Kaisten, since then it has been independent.

Church Records
Ittenthal was part of the parish of Laufenburg until 1804, when it was transferred to the newly created parish of Kaisten. In 1812, Ittenthal became an independent parish; its church is St. Maria. For earlier records, see Kaisten (1804-1812) and Laufenburg (before 1804).

Original church records are located onsite at the Kaisten municipal archive. Microfilm copies of the following church records are available onsite at the Aargau State Archives:
 * Baptisms, marriages, burials 1812-1827; confirmations 1830-1853; family book 1831-1858
 * Marriages 1817-1852
 * Marriages 1852-1875

The following church records are only available onsite at the Kaisten municipal archive:
 * Baptisms 1817-1882
 * Burials 1817-1875

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

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Ittenthal:
 * 1837 (images 782-787)
 * 1850: Form A (images 452-458)
 * 1850: Form B (image 459)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Ittenthal 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)