Muhen, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Muhen, 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 Muhen is in the district of Aarau of the canton of Aargau in Switzerland. Muhen is situated in the Aarau district in the lower Suhr valley. It includes the formerly independent villages that have grown together; Ober-, Mittel- and Untermuhen as well as Schwabistal.

Muhen (as of 2006) has an area of 7 km² (2.7 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 42.6% - agricultural purposes
 * 42.2% - forested
 * 15.1% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * 0.1% - non-productive (rivers or lakes)

History
In 1045, Muhen was first mentioned by the name of Mucheim from a 14th-century copy of the original. In 1267, it was mentioned by the name of Mukhein.

The population history of Muhen is: 1764 - 615 inhabitants 1803 - 846 inhabitants 1850 - 1,288 inhabitants 1900 - 1,213 inhabitants 1950 - 2,046 inhabitants 2000 - 3,083 inhabitants 2020 - 3,985 inhabitants

Per the 2000 census:
 * 20.2% belong to the Roman Catholic Church
 * 64.6% belong to the Swiss Reformed Church
 * 0.23% belong to the Christian Catholic faith

Muhen was spiritually divided between the parishes of Schöftland and Suhr (later Oberentfelden). Muhen constructed its own church in 1961.

Church Records
Muhen was split between the parishes of Schöftland and Oberentfelden. See Schöftland and Oberentfelden for more information.

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Muhen:
 * 1837 (images 87-111)
 * 1850: Form A (images 364-394)
 * 1850: Form B (image 396)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Muhen 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)