Obersiggenthal Parish, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Obersiggenthal 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 municipality of Obersiggenthal is in the Limmat Valley, within the district of Baden, in the canton of Aargau, Switzerland. It is situated between the Siggenberg and the Limmat river. It includes the villages of Nussbaumen, Kirchdorf, and Rieden and the hamlets of Tromsberg, Ebnet, and Hertenstein.

Obersiggenthal (as of 2006) has an area of 8.4 km² (3.2 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 35.6% - agricultural purposes
 * 43.5% - forested
 * 19.6% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * 1.3% - non-productive (rivers or lakes)

History
In 1303-08, Obersiggenthal was first mentioned by the name of Sikental.

The population history of Obersiggenthal is: 1780 - 631 inhabitants 1803 - 755 inhabitants 1850 - 1,183 inhabitants 1900 - 1,504 inhabitants 1950 - 2,856 inhabitants 2000 - 7,561 inhabitants 2020 - 8,661 inhabitants

Per the 2000 census:
 * 46.8% belonged to the Roman Catholic Church
 * 25.5% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church
 * 0.11% belonged to the Christian Catholic faith

The parish church, mentioned in the 12th century, was dedicated to Saints Peter and Paul since the late Middle Ages at least and rebuilt in its present state in 1678. The parish was divided in 1956 between the new parishes of Kirchdorf, Nussbaumen, and Untersiggingen. The Notre-Dame church was constructed in 1949 and the Protestant temple of Nussbaumen in 1985.

Church Records
Located in Obersiggenthal, the parish of Kirchdorf was first mentioned in the ninth century; its parish church is called Peter und Paul. It includes the municipality of Untersiggenthal.

The following church records, as well as all post-1875 church records, are available onsite in the Kirchdorf parish church archive:
 * Baptisms, marriages, burials 1651-1699 (with gaps)
 * Baptisms, marriages, burials 1700-1769; confirmations 1701-1753
 * Baptisms, marriages, burials 1770-1818; confirmations 1780-1797
 * Baptisms, burials 1819-1875; marriages 1819-1845
 * Family book 1872-1917

Original church records are located onsite at the Obersiggenthal municipal archive. Microfilm copies of the following church records are available onsite at the Aargau State Archives:
 * Baptisms 1817-1858
 * Baptisms 1859-1875
 * Marriages 1817-1852
 * Marriages 1853-1875
 * Marriages non-resident citizens 1817-1875
 * Burials 1817-1875

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Obersiggenthal:
 * 1837 (images 527-541)
 * 1850: Form A (images 99-126)
 * 1850: Form B (image 127)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Obersiggenthal 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)