Hirschthal, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Hirschthal, 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 Hirschthal is in the district of Aarau of the canton of Aargau in Switzerland. It is situated in the Aarau district in the mid-Suhr valley.

Hirschthal (as of 2006) has an area of 3.6 km² (1.4 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 34.1% - agricultural purposes
 * 51.5% - forested
 * 14.1% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * 0.3% - non-productive (rivers or lakes)

History
In 924, Hirschthal was first mentioned by the name of Hyrztale.

The population history of Hirschthal is: 1764 - 219 inhabitants 1850 - 581 inhabitants 1900 - 522 inhabitants 1950 - 684 inhabitants 2000 - 1,177 inhabitants 2020 - 1,645 inhabitants

Per the 2000 census:
 * 22.8% were Roman Catholic
 * 60.7% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church
 * 0.34% belonged to the Christian Catholic Church

Hirschthal was part of the Schöftland parish, which was reformed in the mid-16th century. The Catholic section of the population now belongs to the parish of Aarau.

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

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Hirschthal:
 * 1837 (images 225-237)
 * 1850: Form A (images 303-316)
 * 1850: Form B (images 317)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Hirschthal 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)