Oberbözberg, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Oberbözberg, 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 Oberbözberg is in the Brugg district and the Aargau canton. It is located on one of the three medieval Bözberg routes which led from Effingen in a northeasterly direction to the river crossing points in the lower Aare valley. The municipality includes the linear village of Oberbözberg and the hamlet of Ueberthal and scattered farms.

Oberbözberg (as of 2009) has an area of 5.45 km² (2.10 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 50.5% - agricultural purposes
 * 44.0% - forested
 * 4.8% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * 0.4% - rivers or lakes

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

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

The population history of Oberbözberg is: 1764 - 283 inhabitants 1880 - 336 inhabitants 1900 - 283 inhabitants 1950 - 264 inhabitants 2000 - 534 inhabitants 2011 - 499 inhabitants

Per the 2000 census:
 * 28.7% were Roman Catholic
 * 56.9% were Swiss Reformed Church

The parish church of Bözberg-Mönthal is in Unterbözberg.

Church Records
Oberbözberg belongs to the parish of Bözberg, located in Unterbözberg. See Unterbözberg for more information.

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 Effingen 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)