Egliswil, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Egliswil, 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 and village of Egliswil is in the district of Lenzburg in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland. It is situated in a depression on the right edge of the lower Seetal valley. The larger village of Seon is 2 km distant with the small Aabach river forming part of the boundary between the municipalities. The municipality includes the haufendorf village (an irregular, unplanned and quite closely packed village, built around a central square) of Egliswil surrounded by some agricultural land and forest. The village center features the Gemeindehaus (the municipality's headquarters), a primary school, and a church.

Egliswil (as of 2009) has an area of 6.29 km² (2.43 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 52.1% - agricultural purposes
 * 39.7% - forested
 * 8.3% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * 0.3% - either rivers or lakes
 * 0.2% - non-productive

History
In 924, Egliswil was first mentioned by the name of Egirichiswilare.

The population history of Egliswil is: 1850 - 1,146 inhabitants 1900 - 849 inhabitants 1950 - 706 inhabitants 1980 - 722 inhabitants 1990 - 900 inhabitants 2000 - 1,210 inhabitants 2010 - 1,318 inhabitants 2020 - 1,484 inhabitants

Per the 2000 census:
 * 17.7% were Roman Catholic
 * 68.0% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church

The Roman hall church, with a church tower from the 16th century, was part of the church in Seengen.

Church Records
Egliswil belongs to the parish of Seengen. See Seengen for more information.

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Egliswil:
 * 1837 (images 368-389)
 * 1850: Form A (images 62-90)
 * 1850: Form B (images 91-93)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Egliswil 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)