Frick Parish, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Frick 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 Frick is in the district of Laufenburg in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland. It is situated at the meeting of the Bözberg, Staffelegg, and Benken Jura passes. It is the main municipality in the Fricktal. It includes the haufendorf village (an irregular, unplanned and quite closely packed village, built around a central square) of Frick.

Frick (as of 2009) has an area of 9.96 km² (3.85 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 46.1% - agricultural purposes
 * 29.3% - forested
 * 24.2% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * 0.6% - either rivers or lakes

History
In 926, Frick was first mentioned by the name of Frichgowe. In 1064, it was mentioned as Fricho.

The population history of Frick is: 1768 - 495 inhabitants 1850 - 1,112 inhabitants 1860 - 950 inhabitants 1870 - 935 inhabitants 1880 - 932 inhabitants 1888 - 874 inhabitants 1900 - 937 inhabitants 1910 - 1,092 inhabitants 1920 - 1,086 inhabitants 1930 - 1,280 inhabitants 1941 - 1,330 inhabitants 1950 - 1,589 inhabitants 1960 - 2,123 inhabitants 1970 - 3,112 inhabitants 1980 - 3,116 inhabitants 1990 - 3,622 inhabitants 2000 - 4,028 inhabitants 2010 - 4,811 inhabitants 2014 - 5,284 inhabitants 2020 - 5,629 inhabitants

Per the 2000 census:
 * 51.2% were Roman Catholic
 * 23.1% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church
 * 0.52% belonged to the Christian Catholic Church

The Church of St. Peter and Paul was probably constructed as a private church for the Counts of Homberg during the High Middle Ages. The village was destroyed along with the church during the Thirty Years War. In the mid-14th century, the church was part of Steinen Convent in Basel. Then, in 1492 it was given to Teutonic Knights at Beuggen. The current baroque church is from 1716, and the reformed church was built in 1910. The reformed parish includes ten municipalities and the parish offices are in Frick and Gipf-Oberfrick. The catholic parish, consisting of Frick and Gipf-Oberfrick, has been an independent parish since 1953.

Church Records
The parish of Frick has existed since the Middle Ages, though the church, St. Peter und Paul, was destroyed in the Thirty Years' War. It included the municipality of Sisseln until 1796 and Gipf-Oberfrick until 1956.

Original church records are located onsite at the Frick municipal archive. Microfilm copies of the following church records are available onsite at the Aargau State Archives:
 * Baptisms 1682-1745; confirmations 1684-1730
 * Baptisms 1746-1784; confirmations 1749-1810
 * Baptisms 1784-1826 (organized by location); confirmations 1830-1841
 * Marriages 1682-1784
 * Marriages 1784-1826 (organized by location)
 * Burials 1683-1784
 * Burials 1784-1825 (organized by location)

The following church records are available onsite in the Frick municipal archive:
 * Baptisms 1817-1850
 * Baptisms 1851-1875
 * Marriages 1817-1852
 * Marriages 1853-1875
 * Marriages non-resident citizens 1817-1875
 * Burials 1817-1875

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

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Frick:
 * 1837 (images 702-719)
 * 1850: Form A (images 322-348)
 * 1850: Form B (images 349-350)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Frick 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 Region Basel (GHGRB)