Wislikofen Parish, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Wislikofen 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 former municipality of Wislikofen is in the Zurzach district and the Aargau canton. It is located in the lower Tägerbach valley.

Wislikofen (as of 2009) has an area of 3.75 km² (1.45 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 53.3% - agricultural purposes
 * 35.5% - forested
 * 10.7% - settled (buildings or roads)

History
In 1107, Wislikofen was first mentioned by the name of Wiscilinchoven. Wislikofen is in the Zurzach district and the Aargau canton. Since 1899, Mellstorf was included with Wislikofen.

Wislikofen merged into the Zurzach municipality on 1 January 2022. Other municipalities merged include:
 * Bad Zurzach
 * Baldingen
 * Böbikon
 * Kaiserstuhl
 * Rekingen
 * Rietheim
 * Rümikon

The population history of Wislikofen is: 1850 - 291 inhabitants 1900 - 240 inhabitants 1950 - 286 inhabitants 1975 - 280 inhabitants 1980 - 290 inhabitants 1990 - 386 inhabitants 2000 - 346 inhabitants 2010 - 326 inhabitants 2020 - 353 inhabitants 2021 - 353 inhabitants

Per the 2000 census:
 * 64.8% were Roman Catholic
 * 20.1% were Swiss Reformed Church

Wislikofen separated from the parish of Schneisingen. In 1137, the church received the rights of baptism, burial, and complete parochial rights.

Church Records
The parish of Wislikofen was first mentioned in 1143, when it separated from Schneisingen. The parish church is called St. Oswald. It included Böbikon until 1883; it has also included Mellstorf since 1832 and Rümikon since 1857.

The following church records are available onsite in the Probstei Wislikofen office:
 * Baptisms, marriages 1613-1670; burials 1615-1671
 * Baptisms 1670-1766; marriages, burials 1670-1770
 * Baptisms 1766-1839; marriages 1766-1841; burials 1766-1832
 * Marriages 1817-1852
 * Marriages 1853-1875; marriages non-resident citizens 1821-1878
 * Burials 1817-1875
 * Family book 1820-1853
 * Family book Rümikon 1850-1870

The following church records are available onsite in the Zurzach municipal archive:
 * Baptisms 1817-1875

Post-1875 church records are found onsite at the Probstei Wislikofen office.

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

Mellstorf was a separate municipality until 1899, when it became part of Wislikofen. During these censuses, it was enumerated separately. The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Wislikofen and Mellstorf:

Wislikofen

 * 1837 (images 738-740)
 * 1850: Form A (images 775-778)
 * 1850: Form B (image 779)

Mellstorf

 * 1837 (images 698-700)
 * 1850: Form A (images 673-676)
 * 1850: Form B (image 677)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Wislikofen 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 Zürich (GHGZ)