Hunzenschwil, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Hunzenschwil, 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 Hunzenschwil is in the district of Lenzburg in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland. Until the 1940s Hunzenschwil was a linear village, though it has spread along other roads since then.

Hunzenschwil (as of 2009) has an area of 3.26 km² (1.26 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 34.0% - agricultural purposes
 * 24.5% - forested
 * 41.1% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * 0.3% - either rivers or lakes

History
In 1101, Hunzenschwil was first mentioned by the name of Hintziswil. It was mentioned as Hunzeliswilre in 1201.

The population history of Hunzenschwil is: 1764 - 301 inhabitants 1798 - 570 inhabitants 1837 - 810 inhabitants 1850 - 747 inhabitants 1900 - 670 inhabitants 1950 - 925 inhabitants 1980 - 2,219 inhabitants 2000 - 2,575 inhabitants 2010 - 3,201 inhabitants 2020 - 4,209 inhabitants

Per the 2000 census:
 * 25.6% were Roman Catholic
 * 50.7% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church
 * 0.08% belonged to the Christian Catholic Church

Religiously, this area was part of the parish of Suhr, but it has had its own church since 1960.

Church Records
Hunzenschwil belonged to the parish of Suhr until 1960. See Suhr for more information.

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Hunzenschwil:
 * 1837 (images 136-153)
 * 1850: Form A (images 140-158)
 * 1850: Form B (images 159-162)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Hunzenschwil 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)