Kölliken Parish, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Kölliken 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 Kölliken is in the district of Zofingen in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland. The municipality is situated along Kölliker creek on the western edge of the lower Uerkental. It includes the linear village of Kölliken.

Kölliken (as of 2009) has an area of 8.89 km² (3.43 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 32.8% - agricultural purposes
 * 43.3% - forested
 * 22.9% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * 0.2% - either rivers or lakes
 * 0.1% - non-productive

History
In 924, Kölliken was first mentioned by the name of Cholinchove.

The population history of Kölliken is: 1764 - 896 inhabitants 1850 - 1,782 inhabitants 1900 - 2,021 inhabitants 1950 - 2,884 inhabitants 1990 - 3,557 inhabitants 2000 - 3,910 inhabitants 2020 - 4,559 inhabitants

Per the 2000 census:
 * 21.4% belonged to the Roman Catholic Church
 * 59.8% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church
 * 0.15% belonged to the Christian Catholic faith

The first church was built around 1000 with the present church built in 1507. The Reformation was adopted in 1528. Safenwil belonged to the parish of Kölliken from 1616-1865. The Catholic Church dates from 1964.

Church Records
The parish of Kölliken was first mentioned in 1000. It became Reformed in 1528. The municipality of Safenwil belonged to the parish between 1616-1865, when it became an independent parish.

Original church records are located onsite at the Kölliken municipal archive. Microfilm copies of the following church records are available onsite at the Aargau State Archives:
 * Baptisms, marriages 1542-1612
 * Baptisms 1612-1678; marriages, burials 1612-1681
 * Baptisms 1679-1726; marriages, burials 1681-1726; confirmations 1708-1726
 * Baptisms, marriages, burials, confirmations 1727-1751
 * Baptisms 1752-1799
 * Baptisms 1800-1816
 * Baptisms 1815-1816; baptisms non-resident citizens 1800-1875
 * Baptisms 1817-1837
 * Baptisms 1837-1864
 * Baptisms 1864-1875
 * Marriages 1752-1815
 * Marriages 1811-1816
 * Marriages 1817-1852
 * Marriages 1853-1875
 * Marriages, non-resident citizens 1817-1871
 * Burials 1752-1811
 * Burials 1812-1816; burials non-resident citizens 1846-1875
 * Burials 1817-1851
 * Burials 1851-1875
 * Family book, Kölliken and Safenwil 1790-1797
 * Family book, Kölliken and Safenwil 1794-1799
 * Family book, Kölliken and Safenwil 1795-1801
 * Family book, Kölliken and Safenwil 1796-1802
 * Family book, Kölliken and Safenwil 1801-1803
 * Family book, Kölliken and Safenwil 1803-1806
 * Index to baptisms 1693-1806, marriages 1753-1805, burials 1777-1800, confirmations 1748-1801

Post-1875 church records, as well as the following family books, are found onsite at the Kölliken parish church office:
 * Family book, Kölliken 1816
 * Family book, Kölliken 1871

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Kölliken:
 * 1837 (images 39-71)
 * 1850: Form A (images 588-635)
 * 1850: Form B (images 636-638)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Kölliken 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)