Dürrenäsch, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Dürrenäsch, 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 Dürrenäsch is in the district of Kulm in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland. Dürrenäsch is situated in a saddle between the Seetal and Wynental valleys.

Dürrenäsch (as of 2009) has an area of 5.91 km² (2.28 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 49.6% - agricultural purposes
 * 37.2% - forested
 * 12.9% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * 0.2% - non-productive

History
In 924, Dürrenäsch was first mentioned by the name of Aske inferior.

The population history of Dürrenäsch is: 1764 - 443 inhabitants 1850 - 1,112 inhabitants 1900 - 766 inhabitants 1950 - 878 inhabitants 2000 - 1,115 inhabitants 2020 - 1,329 inhabitants

Per the 2000 census:
 * 10.8% were Roman Catholic
 * 65.8% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church
 * 0.45% belonged to the Christian Catholic Church

The village was part of the Kulm parish until 1614 and since then it has belonged to the Leutwil parish. Particularly tragic events include the great village fire in 1782 and the crash of a Swissair plane in 1963 (80 fatalities).

Church Records
Dürrenäsch has belonged to the parish of Leutwil since 1616; until 1616 it had belonged to the parish of Unterkulm. See Leutwil and Unterkulm for more information.

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Dürrenäsch:
 * 1837 (images 491-503)
 * 1850: Form A (images 602-627)
 * 1850: Form B (images 628-629)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Dürrenäsch 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)