Wohlen Parish, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Wohlen 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.

Church Records
The parish of Wohlen was first established in 1518. It was Reformed between 1529-1531; Wohlen was Recatholicized in 1531.

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

Anglikon was a separate municipality until 1014, when it became part of Wohlen. During these censuses, it was enumerated separately. The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Wohlen and Anglikon:

Wohlen

 * 1837 (images 75-102)

Anglikon

 * 1837 (images 651-658)
 * 1850: Form A (images 294-305)
 * 1850: Form B (image 306)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Wohlen 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)