Bellikon, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Bellikon, 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 Bellikon is in the district of Baden in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland. It is situated on the southwest slope of the Heitersberg, separated by the Reuss and Limmat valleys. It includes the villages of Bellikon and Hausen.

Bellikon (as of 2006) has an area of 5 km² (1.9 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 61.4% - agricultural purposes
 * 29.3% - forested
 * 9.3% - settled (buildings or roads)

History
Bellikon was first mentioned on October 11, 1064, in the foundation charter of Muri Abbey, though it was first individually mentioned in the 12th Century as Pellikon.

The population history of Bellikon is: 1850 - 440 inhabitants 1900 - 377 inhabitants 1950 - 434 inhabitants 2000 - 1,303 inhabitants 2003 - 1,436 inhabitants 2020 - 1,544 inhabitants

Per the 2000 census:
 * 49.3% were Roman Catholic
 * 29.2% were Swiss Reformed Church

The catholic Bellikon were members of the church in Oberrohrdorf. In 1925, Bellikon became an independent parish. Church was built in 1854-55 and was replaced by a church center in 1977.

Church Records
Bellikon belonged to the parish of Oberrohrdorf until 1925. See Oberrohrdorf for more information.

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Bellikon (including the village of Hausen):
 * 1837 (images 390-394)
 * 1850: Form A (images 573-585)
 * 1850: Form B (image 586)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Bellikon 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)