Münchwilen, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Münchwilen, 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 Münchwilen is in the district of Laufenburg in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland. The municipality is situated on a terrace between Sisslerfeld and the Jura mountains. It includes the linear village of Münchwilen.

Münchwilen (as of 2009) has an area of 2.46 km² (0.95 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 40.2% - agricultural purposes
 * 31.7% - forested
 * 28.5% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * 0.4% - either rivers or lakes

History
In 1303-08, Münchwilen was first mentioned by the name of Munchwille.

The population history of Münchwilen is: 1768 - 105 inhabitants 1850 - 227 inhabitants 1900 - 246 inhabitants 1950 - 295 inhabitants 2000 - 587 inhabitants 2020 - 1,007 inhabitants

Per the 2000 census:
 * 59.1% belonged to the Roman Catholic Church
 * 28.8% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church
 * 1.36% belonged to the Christian Catholic faith

Since the Middle Ages, the village church has been part of the Eiken parish. The Chapel of St. Ursulahas has Roman components, was originally owned by the St. Martin monastery in Rheinfelden and was a small hermitage until 1791.

Church Records
Münchwilen belongs to the parish of Eiken. See Eiken for more information.

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Münchwilen:
 * 1837 (images 809-813)
 * 1850: Form A (images 524-529)
 * 1850: Form B (image 530)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Münchwilen 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 Region Basel (GHGRB)