Mellikon, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Mellikon, 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 Mellikon is in the district of Zurzach in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland. The municipality is situated in the Zurzach district, in a small valley east of the Nurren river in the Rhine valley. It includes the haufendorf village (an irregular, unplanned, and quite closely packed village, built around a central square) of Mellikon.

Mellikon (as of 2009) has an area of 2.71 km² (1.05 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 27.3% - agricultural purposes
 * 50.2% - forested
 * 17.7% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * 4.1% - either rivers or lakes

History
In 1113, Mellikon was first mentioned by the name of Meliken.

The population history of Mellikon is: 1850 - 199 inhabitants 1900 - 143 inhabitants 1950 - 220 inhabitants 1980 - 197 inhabitants 1990 - 240 inhabitants 2000 - 257 inhabitants 2020 - 228 inhabitants

Per the 2000 census:
 * 47.1% belonged to the Roman Catholic Church
 * 33.5% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church

During the Protestant Reformation, the majority of the population in Mellikon adopted the new religion. The Reformed members were part of the parish of Zurzach, while the Catholic members belonged to the Catholic parish of Zurzach. In 1645, Jost von Roll from Uri constructed a mansion and Catholic chapel in Mellikon which still serves as a place of worship and cemetery for the von Roll family.

Church Records
Mostly Reformed, Mellikon belongs to the parish of Zurzach. See Zurzach for more information.

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Mellikon:
 * 1837 (images 694-698)
 * 1850: Form A (images 667-671)
 * 1850: Form B (image 672)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Mellikon 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)