Rietheim, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Rietheim, 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 Rietheim is in the Zurzach district and the Aargau canton. It is located on the north-east edge of the Achenberg and reaches to the Rhine river. It includes the haufendorf village (an unplanned and packed village built around a central square) of Rietheim.

Rietheim (as of 2009) has an area of 3.93 km² (1.52 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 46.6% - agricultural purposes
 * 39.4% - forested
 * 8.4% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * 4.8% - rivers or lakes
 * 0.8% - non-productive

History
In 1239, Rietheim was first mentioned by the name of Riethein. Rietheim is in the Zurzach district and the Aargau canton.

Rietheim merged into the Zurzach municipality on 1 January 2022. Other municipalities merged include:
 * Bad Zurzach
 * Baldingen
 * Böbikon
 * Kaiserstuhl
 * Rekingen
 * Rümikon
 * Wislikofen

The population history of Rietheim is: 1850 - 439 inhabitants 1900 - 288 inhabitants 1950 - 356 inhabitants 1980 - 425 inhabitants 1990 - 426 inhabitants 2000 - 565 inhabitants 2010 - 728 inhabitants 2020 - 726 inhabitants 2021 - 735 inhabitants

Per the 2000 census:
 * 44.8% were Roman Catholic
 * 31.7% were Swiss Reformed Church

The Reformation was adopted by the majority of the inhabitants of Rietheim. The Catholics belonged to the Sainte-Vérène parish in Zurzach.

Church Records
Rietheim belongs to the Reformed parish of Zurzach. See Zurzach for more information.

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Rietheim:
 * 1837 (images 714-719)
 * 1850: Form A (images 700-710)
 * 1850: Form B (images 711-712)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Rietheim prior to 1875:

Related sources
The town's website (in German) can be found here.

Libraries and archives
State Archives of Aargau

Societies
Central Swiss Society for Family History (ZGF)