Holderbank Parish, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Holderbank 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 Holderbank is in the district of Lenzburg in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland. It includes the linear village of Holderbank and the hamlet of Kernenberg (also known as Heilanstalt).

Holderbank (as of 2009) has an area of 2.32 km² (0.90 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 19.0% - agricultural purposes
 * 36.2% - forested
 * 30.6% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * 6.9% - either rivers or lakes
 * 7.3% - non-productive

History
In 1259, Holderbank was first mentioned by the name of in Halderwange, though this is from a 14th Century copy of the original. Around 1273, it was mentioned as de Halderwanch.

The population history of Holderbank is: 1764 - 155 inhabitants 1850 - 281 inhabitants 1900 - 303 inhabitants 1950 - 622 inhabitants 2000 - 804 inhabitants 2020 - 1,408 inhabitants

Per the 2000 census:
 * 28.7% were Roman Catholic
 * 48.3% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church

The parish church in Holderbank is attested for the first time in 1275. It served as a burial place for the Twingherren of Wildegg. After the Reformation was adopted in 1565, the villages of Möriken and Wildegg became part of the Holderbank parish. In 1701-02, the current church was built by Samuel Jenner.

Church Records
The parish of Holderbank was first mentioned in 1275. It became Reformed in 1528. Holderbank includes the municipality of Möriken-Wildegg.

Original church records are located onsite at the Holderbank municipal archive. Microfilm copies of the following church records are available onsite at the Aargau State Archives:
 * Baptisms 1577-1623; marriages 1577-1608; burials 1620-1627
 * Baptisms, marriages, burials 1628-1733
 * Baptisms, burials 1733-1769
 * Baptisms 1770-1799; burials 1770-1800
 * Baptisms 1800-1816; baptisms non-resident citizens 1812-1875
 * Baptisms 1817-1870
 * Baptisms 1870-1875
 * Marriages 1733-1817; confirmations 1733-1836
 * Marriages 1817-1852
 * Marriages 1853-1875
 * Marriages non-resident citizens 1817-1875
 * Burials 1817-1875
 * Family book, Möriken and Holderbank 1810-1819
 * Family book, Möriken and Holderbank 1853-1919

The following church records are only available onsite at the Holderbank municipal archive:
 * Family book, Möriken and Holderbank 1795-1811

Post-1875 church records are found onsite at the Holderbank-Möriken-Wildegg parish church office.

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Holderbank:
 * 1837 (images 132-136)
 * 1850: Form A (images 130-137)
 * 1850: Form B (images 138-139)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Holderbank 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)