Staffelbach, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Staffelbach, 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 Staffelbach is in the district of Zofingen in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland. It is located DETAILS. OTHERDETAILS

Staffelbach (as of 2009) has an area of 8.94 km² (3.45 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 53.4% - agricultural purposes
 * 39.1% - forested
 * 7.0% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * 0.6% - either rivers or lakes

History
In DATE, Staffelbach was first mentioned by the name of NAME.

The population history of Staffelbach is: 1700 - NUMBER inhabitants 1750 - NUMBER inhabitants 1800 - NUMBER inhabitants 1850 - NUMBER inhabitants 1860 - NUMBER inhabitants 1870 - NUMBER inhabitants 1880 - NUMBER inhabitants 1890 - NUMBER inhabitants 1900 - NUMBER inhabitants 1910 - NUMBER inhabitants 1920 - NUMBER inhabitants 1930 - NUMBER inhabitants 1940 - NUMBER inhabitants 1950 - NUMBER inhabitants 1960 - NUMBER inhabitants 1970 - NUMBER inhabitants 1980 - NUMBER inhabitants 1990 - NUMBER inhabitants 2000 - NUMBER inhabitants 2010 - NUMBER inhabitants 2014 - NUMBER inhabitants 2018 - NUMBER inhabitants 2020 - NUMBER inhabitants

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

In DATE, CHURCHDETAILS Until DATE, CHURCHDETAILS OTHERDETAILS

Church Records
Staffelbach belongs to the parish of Schöftland. See Schöftland for more information.

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

Wittwil was a separate municipality until 1901, when it became part of Staffelbach. During these censuses, it was enumerated separately. The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Staffelbach and Wittwil:

Staffelbach

 * 1837 (images 159-177)
 * 1850: Form A (images 138-158)
 * 1850: Form B (image 159)

Wittwil

 * 1837 (images 177-188)
 * 1850: Form A (images 257-270)
 * 1850: Form B (image 271)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Staffelbach 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)