Wölflinswil Parish, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Wölflinswil 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 former municipality of Wölflinswil is in the Laufenburg district and the Aargau canton. It is located in the upper Fricktal.

Wölflinswil (as of 2009) has an area of 9.51 km² (3.67 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 62.3% - agricultural purposes
 * 31.0% - forested
 * 6.4% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * 0.1% - rivers or lakes

History
In 1226, Wölflinswil was first mentioned by the name of Wilere. In 1302 as Wulviswile. Wölflinswil is in the Laufenburg district and the Aargau canton.

Until 1803, Wölflinswil was united with Oberhof and the hamlet of Benken.

The population history of Wölflinswil is: 1768 - 498 inhabitants 1850 - 739 inhabitants 1900 - 656 inhabitants 1950 - 641 inhabitants 1975 - 739 inhabitants 1980 - 753 inhabitants 1990 - 739 inhabitants 2000 - 810 inhabitants 2020 - 1,033 inhabitants

Per the 2000 census:
 * 67.5% were Roman Catholic
 * 17.6% were Swiss Reformed Church

In the 10th century, the first church was built.

Church Records
The parish of Wölflinswil was first mentioned in the tenth century; the parish church is called St. Mauritius. It includes the municipality of Oberhof.

Original church records are located onsite at the Wölflinswil municipal archive. Microfilm copies of the following church record is available onsite at the Aargau State Archives:
 * Baptisms 1584-1747; marriages 1683-1747; burials 1674-1747; confirmations 1675-1712

The following church records are only available onsite at the Wölflinswil municipal archive:
 * Baptisms 1586-1647, 1662-1663
 * Baptisms 1748-1784; confirmations 1750-1865
 * Baptisms Wölflinswil 1785-1829; baptisms Oberhof 1785-1816
 * Baptisms 1817-1875
 * Marriages 1587-1653, 1666-1683
 * Marriages Wölflinswil 1785-1829; marriages Oberhof 1785-1825; marriages 1829-1846
 * Marriages 1817-1852
 * Marriages 1853-1875
 * Marriages non-resident citizens 1833-1873
 * Burials Wölflinswil 1748-1830; burials Oberhof 1786-1816
 * Burials 1817-1875

Post-1875 church records, as well as the following church records, are found onsite at the Wölflinswil parish church office:
 * Marriages 1748-1784; confirmations 1876-1947
 * Family book 1834-1863

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Wölflinswil:
 * 1837 (images 94-104)
 * 1850: Form A (images 670-687)
 * 1850: Form B (image 688)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Wölflinswil 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)