Holziken, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Holziken, 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 Holziken is in the district of Kulm in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland. It is situated in the Kulm district, between the Uerke and the Suhre rivers.

Holziken (as of 2009) has an area of 2.86 km² (1.10 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 43.7% - agricultural purposes
 * 39.5% - forested
 * 15.7% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * 0.3% - either rivers or lakes
 * 1.0% - non-productive

History
In 1306, Holziken was first mentioned by the name of Helzinkon.

The population history of Holziken is: 1653 - 140 inhabitants 1850 - 343 inhabitants 1900 - 372 inhabitants 1950 - 474 inhabitants 1970 - 649 inhabitants 2000 - 1,184 inhabitants 2020 - 1,543 inhabitants

Per the 2000 census:
 * 20.9% were Roman Catholic
 * 60.8% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church

The Reformation was adopted in 1528 (parish of Schöftland).

Church Records
Holziken belongs to the parish of Schöftland. See Schöftland for more information.

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Holziken:
 * 1837 (images 530-535)
 * 1850: Form A (images 686-693)
 * 1850: Form B (image 694)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Holziken prior to 1875:

Related sources
The town's website (in German) can be found here.

Libraries and archives
State Archives of Aargau

Societies
Genealogical-Heraldic Society of Bern (GHGB)