Ammerswil Parish, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Ammerswil 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 Ammerswil is in the Lenzburg district and the Aargau canton. It is located in a side valley between the valleys of See and Bünz.

Ammerswil (as of 2009) has an area of 3.19 km² (1.23 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 33.2% - agricultural purposes
 * 58.0% - forested
 * 9.1% - settled (buildings or roads)

History
In 924, Ammerswil was first mentioned by the name of Onpretiswilare. In 1306 as Ombrechtzwile. Ammerswil is in the Lenzburg district and the Aargau canton.

The population history of Ammerswil is: 1650 - 100 inhabitants 1798 - 208 inhabitants 1850 - 295 inhabitants 1860 - 312 inhabitants 1900 - 332 inhabitants 1930 - 326 inhabitants 1950 - 298 inhabitants 1960 - 327 inhabitants 1970 - 345 inhabitants 1980 - 317 inhabitants 1990 - 421 inhabitants 2000 - 609 inhabitants 2020 - 735 inhabitants

Per the 2000 census:
 * 26.4% were Roman Catholic
 * 59.6% were Swiss Reformed Church

In 1640, the Hall church was enlarged. In 1783, the Classicist rectory was built.

Church Records
The parish of Ammerswil was established in 1640. It includes the municipality of Dintikon, and included the southern part of Othmarsingen until 1873.

Original church records are located onsite at the Dottikon municipal archive. Microfilm copies of the following church records are available onsite at the Aargau State Archives:
 * Baptisms, burials 1588-1612; marriages 1588-1615
 * Baptisms 1611-1665
 * Baptisms 1666-1737; marriages 1688-1742; burials 1691-1719
 * Baptisms 1738-1752; marriages 1742-1752
 * Baptisms 1752-1800
 * Baptisms 1807-1817
 * Baptisms 1817-1864
 * Baptisms 1864-1875
 * Marriages 1752-1800
 * Marriages 1801-1853
 * Marriages 1817-1852
 * Marriages 1853-1875
 * Marriages, non-resident citizens 1817-1875
 * Burials 1720-1752; confirmations 1731-1751
 * Burials 1752-1800
 * Burials 1801-1818

The following church records are only available onsite at the Dottikon municipal archive:
 * Baptisms 1876-1925
 * Marriages 1876-1912
 * Marriages 1914-1950
 * Burials 1817-1875
 * Burials 1876-1980
 * Confirmations 1752-1907

Post-1875 church records are found onsite at the Dottikon parish church office.

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Ammerswil:
 * 1837 (images 343-347)
 * 1850: Form A (images 11-19)
 * 1850: Form B (image 20)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Ammerswil 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)