Wegenstetten Parish, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Wegenstetten 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 Wegenstetten is in the Rheinfelden district and the Aargau canton. This village street is located in the lower Fricktal.

Wegenstetten (as of 2009) has an area of 7.13 km² (2.75 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 57.6% - agricultural purposes
 * 33.5% - forested
 * 8.3% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * 0.1% - rivers or lakes

History
In 1246, Wegenstetten was first mentioned by the name of Wegosteton. Wegenstetten is in the Rheinfelden district and the Aargau canton.

The population history of Wegenstetten is: 1768 - 480 inhabitants 1850 - 755 inhabitants 1900 - 591 inhabitants 1950 - 600 inhabitants 1975 - 643 inhabitants 1980 - 686 inhabitants 1990 - 863 inhabitants 2000 - 1,009 inhabitants 2020 - 1,040 inhabitants

Per the 2000 census:
 * 61.7% were Roman Catholic
 * 21.5% were Swiss Reformed Church
 * 6.04% were Christian Catholic Church

In 1632, the Saint-Michel church was destroyed and then rebuilt in 1741. Until 1803, Wegenstetten belonged to the Abbey of Säckingen. In 1882, the Catholic-Christian parish was established.

Church Records
The parish of Wegenstetten is ancient. The church parish is called St. Michael. It includes the municipality of Hellikon.

Original church records are located onsite at the Wegenstetten municipal archive. Microfilm copies of the following church records are available onsite at the Aargau State Archives:
 * Baptisms 1639-1752; marriages 1704-1752; burials 1649-1752; confirmations 1690-1750
 * Baptisms 1750-1805; marriages 1750-1784; burials 1750-1816; confirmations 1750-1805, 1810-1865
 * Baptisms Wegenstetten 1784-1843; baptisms Hellikon 1784-1839
 * Baptisms 1817-1875
 * Marriages 1817-1853
 * Marriages 1853-1875
 * Burials 1817-1875

Post-1875 church records are found onsite at the Wegenstetten parish church office. Note: Marriages 1784-1817 are missing.

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Wegenstetten:
 * 1837 (images 668-682)
 * 1850: Form A (images 359-377)
 * 1850: Form B (image 378)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Wegenstetten 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)