Hendschiken, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Hendschiken, 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 Hendschiken is in the district of Lenzburg in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland. It is situated in the valley on the left bank of the Bünz. It includes the village of Hendschiken and the hamlets of Bez and Lenzburg. Today there are several distant village parts in the valley on the left bank of the Bünz where the village was once a closed settlement.

Hendschiken (as of 2009) has an area of 3.52 km² (1.36 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 57.4% - agricultural purposes
 * 24.4% - forested
 * 17.6% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * 0.3% - either rivers or lakes

History
In 1160, Hendschiken was first mentioned by the name of Hentschikon.

The population history of Hendschiken is: 1850 - 571 inhabitants 1900 - 594 inhabitants 1950 - 612 inhabitants 2000 - 896 inhabitants 2020 - 1,336 inhabitants

Per the 2000 census:
 * 25.2% were Roman Catholic
 * 58.5% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church

Initially it was part of the Staufberg parish, but in 1565, it was assigned to the Lenzburg parish.

Church Records
Hendschiken belongs to the parish of Lenzburg. See Lenzburg for more information.

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Hendschiken:
 * 1837 (images 124-132)
 * 1850: Form A (images 114-127)
 * 1850: Form B (images 128-129)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Hendschiken 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)