Hausen, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Hausen, 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 Hausen (prior to 2003: Hausen bei Brugg) is in the district of Brugg in canton of Aargau in Switzerland. It includes the former linear village of Hausen bei Brugg.

Hausen (as of 2009) has an area of 3.21 km² (1.24 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 21.8% - agricultural purposes
 * 47.4% - forested
 * 29.6% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * 0.3% - either rivers or lakes

History
In 1254, Hausen was first mentioned by the name of Husen.

The population history of Hausen is: 1764 - 246 inhabitants 1850 - 576 inhabitants 1900 - 540 inhabitants 1950 - 926 inhabitants 1975 - 1,517 inhabitants 1980 - 1,618 inhabitants 1990 - 1,900 inhabitants 2000 - 2,603 inhabitants 2020 - 3,734 inhabitants

Per the 2000 census:
 * 36.7% were Roman Catholic
 * 42.5% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church
 * 0.23% belonged to the Christian Catholic Church

Religiously it belonged to the parish of Windisch until 1978 when the village built its own Reformed Church.

Church Records
Hausen belonged 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 Hausen:
 * 1837 (images 247-255)
 * 1850: Form A (images 181-195)
 * 1850: Form B (images 196-197)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Hausen 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)