Möriken-Wildegg, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Möriken-Wildegg, 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 Möriken-Wildegg is in the district of Lenzburg in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland. It consists of the village of Möriken, Wildegg Castle, the village section of Wildegg (founded in the 18th century), the settlement of Hard and the ferry over the Aare river (replaced in 1870 by a bridge).

Möriken-Wildegg (as of 2009) has an area of 6.6 km² (2.5 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 37.6% - agricultural purposes
 * 35.2% - forested
 * 25.2% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * 1.8% - either rivers or lakes
 * 0.3% - non-productive

History
In 1283, Möriken-Wildegg was first mentioned by the name of de Moerinchon.

The population history of Möriken-Wildegg is: 1764 - 426 inhabitants 1850 - 821 inhabitants 1900 - 1,161 inhabitants 1950 - 2,134 inhabitants 2000 - 3,413 inhabitants 2020 - 4,561 inhabitants

Per the 2000 census:
 * 25.1% belonged to the Roman Catholic Church
 * 56.9% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church
 * 0.15% belonged to the Christian Catholic faith

Religiously, into the 16th century the inhabitants of Möriken-Wildegg were part of the parish of Staufberg. In 1565, they belonged to the Holderbank parish. A chapel consecrated to Saint Antonius was mentioned in the 13th century. It was brought down in 1949 and replaced by a new building. A temporary Catholic church was dedicated in 1951, and a new building dates from 1967.

Church Records
Möriken-Wildegg belongs to the parish of Holderbank. See Holderbank for more information.

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Möriken-Wildegg:
 * 1837 (images 163-178)
 * 1850: Form A (images 237-257)
 * 1850: Form B (images 258-261)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Möriken-Wildegg 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)