Remetschwil, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Remetschwil, 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 Remetschwil is in the district of Baden in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland. It is situated on the south-west flank of the Heitersberg. It includes the village of Remetschwil and the hamlets of Busslingen in the Reuss valley and Sennhof on the Heitersberg.

Remetschwil (as of 2006) has an area of 3.9 km² (1.5 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 59.2% - agricultural purposes
 * 24.2% - forested
 * 16.4% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * 0.3% - non-productive (rivers or lakes)

History
In 1184, Remetschwil was first mentioned by the name of Reimiswilare.

In 1854, the independent municipality of Remetschwil was created when Rohrdorf split into Niederrohrdorf, Oberrohrdorf, and Remetschwil.

The population history of Remetschwil is: 1780 - 221 inhabitants 1803 - 290 inhabitants 1860 - 575 inhabitants 1900 - 482 inhabitants 1950 - 490 inhabitants 2000 - 1,759 inhabitants 2020 - 2,023 inhabitants

Per the 2000 census:
 * 47.2% belonged to the Roman Catholic
 * 32.3% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church
 * 0.34% belonged to the Christian Catholic faith

Remetschwil was part of the parish of Rohrdorf, which Heinrich von Sellenbüren gave to the monasteries of Muri and Murbach in 1097. The Dominican convent in Oetenbach, eliminated in 1525, had large possessions in Remetschwil, which was reformed in 1528-31 and was part of the parish of Oberrohrdorf.

Church Records
Remetschwil belongs to the parish of Oberrohrdorf. See Oberrohrdorf for more information.

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

Remetschwil became an independent municipality in 1854. In 1837 and 1850, it was enumerated with Rohrdorf. See Rohrdorf for census information.

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Remetschwil prior to 1875:

Related sources
The town's website (in German) can be found here.

Libraries and archives
State Archives of Aargau

Societies
Central Swiss Society for Family History (ZGF)