Strengelbach, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Strengelbach, 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 Strengelbach is in the district of Zofingen in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland. The village is located on the western edge of the lower Wiggertal, on the Zofingen-Kloster St. Urban-Langenthal road.

Strengelbach (as of 2009) has an area of 6.01 km² (2.32 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 31.8% - agricultural purposes
 * 44.6% - forested
 * 23.0% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * 0.8% - non-productive (either rivers or lakes)

History
In 1263, Strengelbach was first mentioned by the name of Strengelbach.

The population history of Strengelbach is: 1764 - 604 inhabitants 1850 - 1284 inhabitants 1900 - 1346 inhabitants 1950 - 2439 inhabitants 1975 - 4,024 inhabitants 1980 - 3,750 inhabitants 1990 - 3,941 inhabitants 2000 - 4,174 inhabitants 2020 - 4,859 inhabitants

Per the 2000 census:
 * 32.1% were Roman Catholic Church
 * 49.8% were Swiss Reformed Church
 * 0.23% were Christian Catholic faith

In the Middle Ages, the St. Ulrich chapel was located on the road to the St. Urban monastery, which Bern had demolished after the Reformation. Since 1965, there has been a Catholic church in the village. In 1968, the Reformed Church was built.

Church Records
Strengelbach belonged to the parish of Zofingen until 1968, when it became an independent parish. See Zofingen for more information.

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Strengelbach:
 * 1837 (images 371-396)
 * 1850: Form A (images 160-191)
 * 1850: Form B (image 192)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Strengelbach 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)