Bergdietikon, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Bergdietikon, 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 Bergdietikon (German: Limmattal) is in the Baden district and the Aargau canton. It is located in the Limmat Valley on the southwest slope of the Heitersberg. It includes of the farm settlements of Baltenswil, Bernold, Gwinden, Herrenberg, Kindhausen and Schönenberg.

Bergdietikon (as of 2006) has an area of 6.0 km² (2.3 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 54.6% - agricultural purposes
 * 27.3% - forested
 * 16.8% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * 1.3% - non-productive

History
From 1798 to 1802, Bergdietikon was mentioned by the name of Munizipalgemeinde ob Dietikon. From 1803 to 1840 as Berggemeinde Dietikon. Bergdietikon (German: Limmattal) is in the Baden district and the Aargau canton. Bergdietikon was originally part of the municipality of Dietikon and the short lived canton of Baden. In 1803, the Canton of Baden was discontinued and the Dietikon municipality was split.

The population history of Bergdietikon is: 1850 - 491 inhabitants 1900 - 466	 inhabitants 1950 - 514	 inhabitants 1970 - 1,077 inhabitants 2000 - 2,256 inhabitants 2010 - 2,348 inhabitants 2020 - 2,909 inhabitants

Per the 2000 census:
 * 33.8% were Roman Catholic
 * 49.2% were Swiss Reformed Church
 * 0.18% were Christian Catholic Church

Since 1984, there has been a Protestant parish. In 1961, a church in Bergdietikon was built at the center of the village.

Catholic
Originally part of the parish of Dietikon, Bergdietikon has belonged to the parish of Berikon since 1861. See Berikon and Dietikon for more information.

Reformed
Reformed residents of Bergdietikon belonged to the parish of Urdorf until 1940. See Urdorf for more information.

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Bergdietikon:
 * 1837 (images 394-401)
 * 1850: Form A (images 587-600)
 * 1850: Form B (image 601)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Bergdietikon 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)