Habsburg, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Habsburg, 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 Habsburg (High Alemannic: Hapschberg) is in the district of Brugg in canton of Aargau in Switzerland. It includes the haufendorf village (an irregular, unplanned and quite closely packed village, built around a central square) of Habsburg below Habsburg Castle. It is situated above the Aare valley, directly east of the Wüpelsbergs, on which the castle is located.

Habsburg (as of 2009) has an area of 2.23 km² (0.86 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 30.0% - agricultural purposes
 * 61.0% - forested
 * 9.0% - settled (buildings or roads)

History
In 1027, Habsburg was first mentioned by the name of Habesbur or Habeburch (from 1114 copy of a document from 1027). In 1114, it was mentioned Hauesborc.

The population history of Habsburg is: 1798 - 98 inhabitants 1850 - 176 inhabitants 1900 - 144 inhabitants 1950 - 133 inhabitants 1960 - 126 inhabitants 1975 - 227 inhabitants 1980 - 254 inhabitants 1990 - 327 inhabitants 2000 - 368 inhabitants 2020 - 428 inhabitants

Per the 2000 census:
 * 23.1% were Roman Catholic
 * 59.8% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church
 * 0.54% belonged to the Christian Catholic Church

Habsburg always belonged to the church after Windisch.

Church Records
Habsburg belongs to the parish of Windisch. See Windisch for more information.

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Windisch:
 * 1837 (images 245-247)
 * 1850: Form A (images 175-179)
 * 1850: Form B (image 180)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Habsburg 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)