Killwangen, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Killwangen, 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 Killwangen is in the district of Baden in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland. The town is located in the Limmat valley between Baden and Zürich. Killwangen is situated on the south side of the Limmat river, within easy walking distance of the Heitersberg. The elevation of the Limmat at Killwangen is 385 m (1,263 ft). The highest spot in Killwangen is the Sennenberg ridge at 702 m (2,303 ft). Bordering towns are Wurenlos to the North, Spreitenbach to the east, Neuenhof to the West and Oberrohrdorf to the south.

Killwangen (as of 2006) has an area of 2.4 km² (0.93 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 27.6% - agricultural purposes
 * 50.6% - forested
 * 19.3% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * 2.5% - non-productive (rivers or lakes)

History
In 1227, Killwangen was first mentioned by the name of Chullewangen.

The population history of Killwangen is: 1778 - 90 inhabitants 1850 - 182 inhabitants 1900 - 306 inhabitants 1950 - 597 inhabitants 1975 - 961 inhabitants 1980 - 1,044 inhabitants 1990 - 1,310 inhabitants 2000 - 1,377 inhabitants 2010 - 1,820 inhabitants 2015 - 1,961 inhabitants 2020 - 2,051 inhabitants

Per the 2000 census:
 * 48.4% were Roman Catholic
 * 30.1% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church
 * 0.36% belonged to the Christian Catholic Church

It belonged, most likely until the Reformation, to the large parish of Dietikon, whose patronage had been with the Wettingen monastery since 1310. The abbot later assigned it to the district of the village of Wettingen. In 1887, it was part of the new Neuenhof parish, and since 1955 it has been an independent Catholic parish. A chapel prior to that of St. Viktor is mentioned around 1370. In 1951-52, was the construction of the Catholic Church with vicarage.

Church Records
Killwangen belonged to the parish of Wettingen until 1887. See Wettingen for more information.

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Killwangen:
 * 1837 (images 473-477)
 * 1850: Form A (images 769-773)
 * 1850: Form B (image 774)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Killwangen 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)