Dottikon Parish, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Dottikon Parish, 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 Dottikon is in the district of Bremgarten in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland. It is located on the edge of the Bünz stream. It includes the linear village of Dottikon.

Dottikon (as of 2006) has an area of 3.9 km² (1.5 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 47.5% - agricultural purposes
 * 22.7% - forested
 * 28.9% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * 0.8% - non-productive (rivers or lakes)

History
In 1179, Dottikon was first mentioned by the name of Totinchon.

The population history of Dottikon is: 1850 - 713 inhabitants 1900 - 722 inhabitants 1950 - 1,321 inhabitants 1970 - 2,462 inhabitants 1990 - 2,955 inhabitants 2000 - 2,969 inhabitants 2020 - 3,932 inhabitants

Per the 2000 census:
 * 52.0% were Roman Catholic
 * 21.2% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church
 * 0.07% belonged to the Christian Catholic Church

A chapel dedicated to Saint Agatha is mentioned in 1426 as a subsidiary of Staufberg. Dottikon raised from Hägglingen after the return to Catholicism in 1531, became a parish in 1867. The current church replaced the chapel, destroyed in 1865. The Protestants are attached to Ammerswil-Dintikon.

Church Records
Dottikon belonged to the parish of Hägglingen until 1867, when its church Johannes der Täufer became an independent parish. See Hägglingen for earlier records.

Original church records are located onsite at the Dottikon parish church office. Microfilm copies of the following church records are available onsite at the Aargau State Archives:
 * Baptisms 1867-1930
 * Marriages 1867-1966
 * Burials 1867-1988

Post-1875 church records, as well as the following church records, are found onsite at the Dottikon parish church office.
 * Family book 1831-1862

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Dottikon:
 * 1837 (images 679-691)
 * 1850: Form A (images 377-393)
 * 1850: Form B (image 394)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Dottikon 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)