Freienwil, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Freienwil, 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 Freienwil is in the district of Baden in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland. The village is located in the eastern edge of the Siggenbergs in a valley between the Limmat and the Surb valleys.

Freienwil (as of 2006) has an area of 4 km² (1.5 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 52.6% - agricultural purposes
 * 38.5% - forested
 * 8.9% - settled (buildings or roads)

History
Around 1227–1234, Freienwil was first mentioned by the name of Friginwillare.

The population history of Freienwil is: 1799 - 280 inhabitants 1850 - 506 inhabitants 1900 - 370 inhabitants 1950 - 416 inhabitants 1975 - 495 inhabitants 1980 - 508 inhabitants 1990 - 647 inhabitants 2000 - 753 inhabitants 2020 - 1,110 inhabitants

Per the 2000 census:
 * 55.1% were Roman Catholic
 * 27.4% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church

The Catholics (who have had a chapel since 1648, refurbished in 1925) are part of the parish of Lengnau, the Protestants to that of Baden.

Church Records
Freienwil belongs to the parish of Lengnau. See Lengnau for more information.

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Freienwil:
 * 1837 (images 451-457)
 * 1850: Form A (images 711-723)
 * 1850: Form B (image 724)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Freienwil 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)