Eggenwil Parish, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Eggenwil 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 municipality of Eggenwil is in the district of Bremgarten in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland. It is situated on a terrace at the foot of the Hasenberg and along the right bank of the Reuss river.

Eggenwil (as of 2006) has an area of 2.5 km² (0.97 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 54.7% - agricultural purposes
 * 27.5% - forested
 * 12.1% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * 5.7% - non-productive (rivers or lakes)

History
In 1160, Eggenwil was first mentioned by the name of Egenwilare in a donation document, the Acta Murensia.

The population history of Eggenwil is: 1850 - 281 inhabitants 1900 - 219 inhabitants 1950 - 270 inhabitants 2000 - 669 inhabitants 2020 - 1,042 inhabitants

Per the 2000 census:
 * 43.2% were Roman Catholic
 * 37.2% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church

The village church, St. Lawrence's Church, was constructed in 1064 and converted into a Swiss Reformed Church in 1529 during the Protestant Reformation. In 1683, the choir was refurbished. Since 1944, the parish of Eggenwil-Widen has existed.

Church Records
The parish of Eggenwil (named St. Laurentius) was first mentioned in 1064. It included the municipality of Widen until 1977.

Original church records are located onsite at the Widen parish church office. Microfilm copies of the following church records are available onsite at the Aargau State Archives:


 * Baptisms 1632-1797; marriages 1631-1797; burials 1625-1797
 * Baptisms 1798-1877; marriages 1798-1855; burials 1798-1855
 * Burials 1817-1877

Post-1875 church records, as well as the following church records, are found onsite at the Widen parish church office.
 * Marriages 1853-1877

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Eggenwil:
 * 1837 (images 70-75)
 * 1850: Form A (images 395-405)
 * 1850: Form B (image 406)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Eggenwil 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)