Fahrwangen, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Fahrwangen, 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 Fahrwangen is in the district of Lenzburg in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland. It is located in the Seetal valley east of the Hallwilersee and borders the canton of Luzern. Fahrwangen is situated at the western foot of the Lindenberg mountain in a depression above the Hallwilersee. It includes the irregular, unplanned, and quite closely packed village of Fahrwangen, built around a central square.

Fahrwangen (as of 2009) has an area of 3.99 km² (1.54 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 56.6% - agricultural purposes
 * 24.8% - forested
 * 17.3% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * 0.3% - either rivers or lakes
 * 0.3% - non-productive

History
In 924, Fahrwangen was first mentioned by the name of Farnowanch.

The population history of Fahrwangen is: 1693 - 260 inhabitants 1798 - 529 inhabitants 1850 - 782 inhabitants 1900 - 1,019 inhabitants 1950 - 1,052 inhabitants 1980 - 1,210 inhabitants 2000 - 1,653 inhabitants 2020 - 2,338 inhabitants

Per the 2000 census:
 * 40.1% were Roman Catholic
 * 37.1% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church

Religiously, it was originally in the parish of Sarmenstorf. Between 1531 and 1817, it was part of the parish of Seengen. It became its own Reformed parish, which included Meisterschwanden after 1817.

Church Records
Fahrwangen has belonged to the parish of Meisterschwanden since 1817; before 1817, it belonged to the parish of Seengen. See Meisterschwanden and Seengen for more information.

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Fahrwangen:
 * 1837 (images 389-400)
 * 1850: Form A (images 94-112)
 * 1850: Form B (image 113)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Fahrwangen 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)