Bremgarten Parish, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Bremgarten 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 Bremgarten is in the Bremgarten district and the Aargau canton. The lower city is located along the banks of the river and the upper city is located on the heights above the Reuss river. Bremgarten is the capital of the Bremgarten district.

Bremgarten (as of 2006) has an area of 11.36 km² (4.39 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 10.1% - agricultural purposes
 * 56.0% - forested
 * 25.6% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * 8.4% - rivers or lakes

History
In 1238, Bremgarten was first mentioned by the name of Bremgarten. Bremgarten is in the Bremgarten district and the Aargau canton.

On 1 January 2014, the municipality of Hermetschwil-Staffeln merged into Bremgarten.

The population history of Bremgarten is: 1803 - 756 inhabitants 1850 - 1,307 inhabitants 1860 - 1,551 inhabitants 1870 - 1,625 inhabitants 1880 - 1,658 inhabitants 1890 - 1,889 inhabitants 1900 - 2,209 inhabitants 1910 - 2,548 inhabitants 1920 - 2,688 inhabitants 1930 - 3,057 inhabitants 1940 - 3,190 inhabitants 1950 - 3,469 inhabitants 1960 - 4,155 inhabitants 1970 - 4,873 inhabitants 1980 - 4,815 inhabitants 1990 - 5,280 inhabitants 2000 - 5,338 inhabitants 2020 - 8,415 inhabitants

Per the 2000 census:
 * 51.0% were Roman Catholic
 * 21.5% were Swiss Reformed Church
 * 0.22% were Christian Catholic Church

In 1645, the Sainte-Anne chapel was built. In 1529, the Reformation was adopted.

Catholic
The parish of Bremgarten, headquarted in the St. Nikolaus church, was first mentioned in 1252.

Original church records are located onsite at the Bremgarten city archive. Microfilm and digital copies of baptisms and marriages through 1866 and burials through 1874 are available online at FamilySearch (with possible viewing restrictions):
 * Baptisms 1580-1717; marriages 1580-1685 (with gaps); burials 1591-1683 (images 6-332)
 * Baptisms, marriages 1718-1866; burials 1718-1874; confirmations 1723-1856 (images 335-672)
 * Baptisms 1817-1875
 * Marriages 1817-1852
 * Marriages 1853-1875
 * Marriages non-resident citizens 1817-1875
 * Burials 1817-1875
 * Jahrzeit book, 15th-16th centuries

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

Reformed
A Reformed parish was established in 1874 for the congregation that dated back to 1845.

Original church records are located onsite at the Bremgarten city archive. Microfilm copies of the following church records are available onsite at the Aargau State Archives:
 * Baptisms 1846-1875
 * Marriages 1846-1852
 * Marriages 1853-1875
 * Marriages, non-resident citizens 1847-1871
 * Burials 1846-1875

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

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Bremgarten:
 * 1837 (images 631-645)
 * 1850: Form A (images 334-367)
 * 1850: Form B (image 368)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Bremgarten 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)