Unterbözberg Parish, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Unterbözberg 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 Unterbözberg is in the Brugg district and the Aargau canton. It is located on the Bözberg Pass road. The municipality of Unterbözberg includes the village of Ursprung, the hamlets of Kirchbözberg, Egenwil, Alt Stalden and Neu Stalden, the housing estate of Hafen and isolated farms.

Unterbözberg (as of 2009) has an area of 6.12 km² (2.36 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 53.6% - agricultural purposes
 * 37.9% - forested
 * 9.6% - settled (buildings or roads)

History
In 1189, Unterbözberg was first mentioned by the name of Bozeberch. Until 1873, the municipality of Unterbözberg was part of Bözberg, which split into Oberbözberg and Unterbözberg. Unterbözberg is in the Brugg district and the Aargau canton.

Unterbözberg merged into the Bözberg municipality on 1 January 2013. Other municipalities merged include:
 * Gallenkirch
 * Linn
 * Oberbözberg

The population history of Unterbözberg is: 1764 - 344 inhabitants 1880 - 505 inhabitants 1900 - 410 inhabitants 1950 - 492 inhabitants 1975 - 625 inhabitants 1980 - 608 inhabitants 1990 - 674 inhabitants 2000 - 754 inhabitants 2011 - 735 inhabitants

Per the 2000 census:
 * 28.4% were Roman Catholic
 * 55.7% were Swiss Reformed Church
 * 0.53% were Christian Catholic Church

In the 11th century, the Saint-Michel church was mentioned. In 1528, the chapel at the top of the pass was abolished. The Catholics belonged to the Brugg parish.

Church Records
The parish of Bözberg, located in Unterbözberg, was first mentioned in the eleventh century; in 1528 it became a Reformed parish. It includes the municipalities of Gallenkirch, Linn (since 1649), and Oberbözberg.

Original church records are located onsite at the Bözberg municipal archive. Microfilm copies of the following church records are available onsite at the Aargau State Archives:
 * Baptisms, marriages, burials 1558-1622
 * Baptisms 1623-1722; marriages 1622-1752; burials 1622-1668
 * Baptisms 1723-1751; cburials 1734-1751; confirmations 1732-1750
 * Baptisms 1751-1815
 * Baptisms 1816; baptisms non-resident citizens 1816-1875
 * Marriages 1751-1816; marriage banns 1817-1852
 * Marriages 1817-1852
 * Burials 1751-1816
 * Burials 1817-1875

The following church records are only located onsite at the Bözberg municipal archive.
 * Baptisms 1817-1875
 * Baptisms 1876-1901
 * Marriages 1853-1875
 * Marriages non-resident citizens 1817-1862
 * Bözberg families 1558-1870 (genealogical work)

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

Before 1873, Oberbözberg and Unterbözberg formed a single municipality, Bözberg. The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Bözberg:
 * 1837 (images 203-216)
 * 1850: Form A (images 65-94)
 * 1850: Form B (image 95)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Unterbözberg 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 Bern (GHGB)