Villmergen Parish, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Villmergen 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 Villmergen is in the Bremgarten district and the Aargau canton. It is located at the crossroads of the roads linking the Bünz valley to the Seetal and the roads linking Lucerne to Brugg. The municipality includes the village of Villmergen and the hamlets of Hembrunn and Hilfikon.

Villmergen (as of 2006) has an area of 10.2 km² (3.9 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 41.6% - agricultural purposes
 * 35.9% - forested
 * 22.3% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * 0.2% - non-productive

History
In 1185, Villmergen was first mentioned by the name of Vilmaringen. Villmergen is in the Bremgarten district and the Aargau canton.

On 1 January 2010, Hilfikon became the Village of Hilfikon in the Municipality of Villmergen when it merged into Villmergen.

The population history of Villmergen is: 1798 - 888 inhabitants 1803 - 998 inhabitants 1854 - 1,594 inhabitants 1900 - 1,785 inhabitants 1930 - 2,707 inhabitants 1950 - 2,812 inhabitants 1960 - 3,232 inhabitants 1970 - 4,222 inhabitants 1975 - 4,401 inhabitants 1980 - 4,079 inhabitants 1990 - 4,641 inhabitants 2000 - 5,078 inhabitants 2020 - 7,668 inhabitants

Per the 2000 census:
 * 63.8% were Roman Catholic
 * 18.8% were Swiss Reformed Church
 * 0.06% were Christian Catholic Church

In 1185, the parish church of Saints Peter and Paul was attested. In 1863, the current neogothic chapel was built. The parish included Büttikon, Hembrunn, and Hilfikon

Church Records
The parish of Villmergen was first mentioned in 1185; the parish church is called St. Peter und Paul. It includes the municipalities of Anglikon (until 1917), Büttikon, and Hilfikon.

The following church records are only available onsite at the Villmergen municipal archive:
 * Baptisms, marriages, burials 1647-1743; confirmations 1654-1742
 * Baptisms, marriages, burials 1744-1823 (organized by location); confirmations 1768-1820
 * Baptisms 1817-1852
 * Baptisms 1853-1875
 * Marriages 1852-1875
 * Burials 1817-1874
 * Burials 1874-1875

Post-1875 church records are found onsite at the Villmergen parish church office: Note: Marriages 1847-1852 are missing.
 * Baptisms, marriages, burials 1824-1847 (organized by location); confirmations 1829-1876, 1882-1902
 * Family book Villmergen, Büttikon, and Hilfikon 1858-1920
 * Family book Anglikon 1858-1913

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Villmergen:
 * 1837 (images 126-141)
 * 1850: Form A (images 654-693)
 * 1850: Form B (image 694)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Villmergen 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)