Metadata: Church and Year Books of the Canton of Aargau
Collection
- Country:
- Switzerland
- Holding institution:
- State Archive of Aargau
- Holding institution (official language):
- Staatsarchiv Aargau
- Postal address:
- Entfelderstrasse 22, CH-5001 Aarau
- Phone number:
- +41 62 835 12 90
- Email:
- staatsarchiv@ag.ch
- Reference number:
- KI
- Title:
- Church and Year Books of the Canton of Aargau
- Title (official language):
- Kirchen- und Jahrzeitbücher des Kantons Aargau
- Date(s):
- 1200/1900
- Language:
- Latin
- Extent:
- 331 microfilms
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The collection contains the canton’s Catholic church books from about 1200 to 1900. The most interesting note from a Jewish point of view relates to the Rheinfelden district. It is an entry on the baptism of a Jew in Rheinfelden from 1591. [KI/01 Rheinfelden 01]
- Archival history:
- As in most other regions of Christian Europe, the Catholic Church in Switzerland was for a long time responsible for the baptismal registers. The originals of these documents are to be found in the respective community archives. This collection probably came into the possession of the State Archive during the 20th century.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- After the foundation of the Canton of Aargau in 1803, the Registrar of the State Chancellery in Aarau was responsible for organising and archiving the files produced by the new legislative and executive authorities. In the early years, these were housed in one of the lower rooms of the old town hall, which had been made available to the cantonal government by the Helvetic authorities. In the 1820s the archive moved to the new government building in the front suburb. In 1959, the State Archive and the Cantonal Library moved into a new building designed especially for them. The organisational separation of the two institutions in 1967 was also spatially completed in 1998 when the State Archive moved to the new Buchenhof administration building. The move to the new building brought about a marked improvement in internal operational processes. The archive users have a modern and purpose-oriented working environment in the Buchenhof.
- Access points: locations:
- Rheinfelden
- Subject terms:
- Conversion to Christianity
- Finding aids:
- An online finding aid is available, although the information is often rudimentary.
- Links to finding aids:
- https://www.ag.ch/staatsarchiv/suche/suchinfo.aspx
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Hohenems
- Author of the description:
- Severin Holzknecht; Jewish Museum of Hohenems; 2020
