Schmiedrued, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Schmiedrued, 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 Schmiedrued is in the district of Kulm in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland. The village is situated in the upper Ruedertal without an actual center. It includes Matt, Schmiedrued, Walde, and Schiltwald as well as hamlets and individual farms.

Schmiedrued (as of 2009) has an area of 8.64 km² (3.34 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 64.2% - agricultural purposes
 * 27.4% - forested
 * 7.8% - settled (buildings or roads)

History
In 1217-1222, Schmiedrued was first mentioned by the name of Ruoda. It was also mentioned in 1618 as Schmidenruod.

The population history of Schmiedrued is: 1764 - 615 inhabitants 1803 - 1016 inhabitants 1850 - 1526 inhabitants 1900 - 968 inhabitants 1950 - 977 inhabitants 1975 - 964 inhabitants 1980 - 911 inhabitants 1990 - 1,016 inhabitants 2000 - 1,230 inhabitants 2020 - 1,160 inhabitants

Per the 2000 census:
 * 17.1% belonged to the Roman Catholic Church
 * 70.1% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church

Schmiedrued is part of the parish of Rued.

Church Records
Schmiedrued belongs to the parish of Rued. See Schlossrued for more information.

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Schmiedrued:
 * 1837 (images 598-615)
 * 1850: Form A (images 205-239)
 * 1850: Form B (images 240-241)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Schmiedrued 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)