Baden Parish, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Baden 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.



Catholic
The Catholic parish in Baden, called Mariä Himmelfahrt, was first mentioned in 1241. It includes the former municipality of Dättwil, and included the municipality of Ennetbaden until 1966.

The following records are available onsite at the Baden city archive:
 * Baptisms 1573-1632; marriages 1586-1631; burials 1586-1632 (all with gaps)
 * Baptisms, marriages, burials 1632-1723; confirmations 1642-1772 (with gaps)
 * Baptisms 1724-1814
 * Baptisms 1817-1875
 * Marriages 1724-1835
 * Marriages 1817-1852
 * Marriages 1853-1875
 * Marriages non-resident citizens 1817-1875
 * Burials 1724-1837
 * Burials 1817-1875

Post-1875 church records, as well as the following church records, are found onsite at the Baden Mariä Himmelfahrt parish church office.
 * Baptisms 1787-1795
 * Baptisms 1805-1811
 * Baptisms 1812-1817
 * Baptisms 1815-1837
 * Baptisms 1817-1818
 * Baptisms 1819-1826
 * Baptisms 1826-1847
 * Baptisms 1848-1862
 * Baptisms 1863-1880
 * Baptisms non-resident citizens 1684-1831
 * Family book 1710-1761
 * Family book 1745-1862
 * Family book 1814-1836
 * Family book 1815-1870

Reformed
The Reformed church in Baden was built in 1714. The following records are available onsite at the Baden city archive:
 * Baptisms 1714-1791; marriages 1721-1791; burials 1724-1791; confirmations 1753-1790
 * Baptisms, burials 1792-1816; confirmations 1792-1875
 * Baptisms 1817-1875
 * Marriages 1792-1816
 * Marriages 1817-1852
 * Marriages 1853-1875
 * Marriages, non-resident citizens 1817-1850
 * Marriages, non-resident citizens 1851-1865
 * Marriages, non-resident citizens 1866-1875
 * Burials 1817-1875

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

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

Dättwil was a separate municipality until 1962, when it became part of Baden. During these censuses, it was enumerated separately. The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Baden and Dättwil:

Baden

 * 1837 (images 368-390)
 * 1850: Form A (images 502-570)
 * 1850: Form B (images 571-572)

Dättwil

 * 1837 (images 417-421)
 * 1850: Form A (images 638-648)
 * 1850: Form B (image 649)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Baden 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 Zürich (GHGZ)