Leutwil Parish, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Leutwil 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 municipality of Leutwil is in the district of Kulm in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland. Leutwil is located on a northern spur of the Reinacher Homberg mountain. It includes the village of Leutwil itself, and the hamlet of Wampfle. Wampfle is in the Wynental valley while the rest of the municipality is in the Seetal valley.

Leutwil (as of 2009) has an area of 3.75 km² (1.45 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 50.7% - agricultural purposes
 * 38.7% - forested
 * 10.9% - settled (buildings or roads)

History
In 1273, Leutwil was first mentioned by the name of Lutwile.

The population history of Leutwil is: 1653 - 225 inhabitants 1850 - 790 inhabitants 1900 - 599 inhabitants 1950 - 533 inhabitants 2000 - 662 inhabitants 2020 - 745 inhabitants

Per the 2000 census:
 * 13.7% belonged to the Roman Catholic Church
 * 72.4% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church

The village church was first attested in 1273. In 1528, the Protestant Reformation was adopted by the village. In 1616, the Leutwil-Dürrenäsch parish was established.

Church Records
The parish of Leutwil was established in 1616. It includes the municipality of Dürrenäsch as well as the upper part of Boniswil.

Original church records are located onsite at the Leutwil municipal archive. Microfilm copies of the following church records are available onsite at the Aargau State Archives:
 * Baptisms 1573-1654; marriages 1573-1643; burials 1606-1647
 * Baptisms 1688-1743; marriages, burials 1657-1743
 * Baptisms, marriages, burials 1744-1775; confirmations 1759-1775
 * Baptisms 1776-1808
 * Baptisms 1808-1816
 * Baptisms 1817-1852
 * Baptisms 1853-1875
 * Baptisms, non-resident citizens 1750-1777
 * Marriages 1776-1814
 * Marriages 1817-1852
 * Marriages 1853-1875
 * Burials 1776-1816
 * Burials 1817-1875
 * Confirmations 1814-1894
 * Family book, Leutwil, Boniswil, and Dürrenäsch 1814-1824
 * Family book, Leutwil 1832-1907
 * Family book, Dürrenäsch 1832-1906
 * Family book, Dürrenäsch and Leutwil 1845-1911

The following church records are only available onsite at the Leutwil municipal archive:
 * Baptisms, non-resident citizens 1784-1875
 * Marriages 1817-1852
 * Marriages, non-citizen residents 1817-1874
 * Confirmations 1776-1814

Post-1875 church records are found onsite at the Leutwil parish church office.

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Leutwil:
 * 1837 (images 538-546)
 * 1850: Form A (images 12-30)
 * 1850: Form B (image 31)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Leutwil 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)