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Schinznach-Bad is a former
municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the ...
in the district of
Brugg , neighboring_municipalities = Gebenstorf, Habsburg, Hausen, Holderbank, Lupfig, Riniken, Rüfenach, Schinznach, Untersiggenthal, Villigen, Villnachern, Veltheim, Windisch , twintowns = Rottweil (Germany) , website ...
in
canton Canton may refer to: Administrative division terminology * Canton (administrative division), territorial/administrative division in some countries, notably Switzerland * Township (Canada), known as ''canton'' in Canadian French Arts and ente ...
of
Aargau Aargau, more formally the Canton of Aargau (german: Kanton Aargau; rm, Chantun Argovia; french: Canton d'Argovie; it, Canton Argovia), is one of the 26 cantons forming the Swiss Confederation. It is composed of eleven districts and its capit ...
in
Switzerland ). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...
. On 1 January 2020 the municipality of Schinznach-Bad merged into
Brugg , neighboring_municipalities = Gebenstorf, Habsburg, Hausen, Holderbank, Lupfig, Riniken, Rüfenach, Schinznach, Untersiggenthal, Villigen, Villnachern, Veltheim, Windisch , twintowns = Rottweil (Germany) , website ...
.


Geography

Schinznach-Bad has an area, , of . Of this area, or 5.3% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 38.9% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 45.3% is settled (buildings or roads), or 9.5% is either rivers or lakes and or 0.5% is unproductive land.Swiss Federal Statistical Office-Land Use Statistics
2009 data accessed 25 March 2010
Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 3.7% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 15.3% and transportation infrastructure made up 12.1%. while parks, green belts and sports fields made up 13.7%. 37.4% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.6% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 2.6% is used for growing crops and 2.6% is pastures. All the water in the municipality is in rivers and streams.


Coat of arms

The
blazon In heraldry and heraldic vexillology, a blazon is a formal description of a coat of arms, flag or similar emblem, from which the reader can reconstruct the appropriate image. The verb ''to blazon'' means to create such a description. The ...
of the municipal
coat of arms A coat of arms is a heraldic visual design on an escutcheon (i.e., shield), surcoat, or tabard (the latter two being outer garments). The coat of arms on an escutcheon forms the central element of the full heraldic achievement, which in its ...
is ''Azure two Mullets Or and between them in chief a Crescent of the same and in base three barrulets wavy Argent.''


Demographics

Schinznach-Bad has a population () of . , 26.4% of the population are foreign nationals.Statistical Department of Canton Aargau -Bereich 01 -Bevölkerung
accessed 20 January 2010
Over the last 10 years (1997–2007) the population has changed at a rate of -0.5%. Most of the population () speaks German (80.8%), with Serbo-Croatian being second most common ( 5.6%) and Albanian being third ( 2.5%).
accessed 9 April 2010
The age distribution, , in Schinznach-Bad is; 106 children or 8.6% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 150 teenagers or 12.1% are between 10 and 19. Of the adult population, 166 people or 13.4% of the population are between 20 and 29 years old. 150 people or 12.1% are between 30 and 39, 206 people or 16.6% are between 40 and 49, and 191 people or 15.4% are between 50 and 59. The senior population distribution is 126 people or 10.2% of the population are between 60 and 69 years old, 88 people or 7.1% are between 70 and 79, there are 49 people or 4.0% who are between 80 and 89, and there are 7 people or 0.6% who are 90 and older.Statistical Department of Canton Aargau -Bevölkerungsdaten für den Kanton Aargau und die Gemeinden (Archiv)
accessed 20 January 2010
At the same time there were 501 private households (homes and apartments) in the municipality, and an average of 2.5 persons per household. , there were 55 homes with 1 or 2 persons in the household, 250 homes with 3 or 4 persons in the household, and 190 homes with 5 or more persons in the household. The average number of people per household was 2.45 individuals. there were 208 single family homes (or 36.7% of the total) out of a total of 566 homes and apartments.Statistical Department of Canton Aargau
accessed 20 January 2010
There were a total of 6 empty apartments for a 1.1% vacancy rate. , the construction rate of new housing units was 0.8 new units per 1000 residents. In the
2007 federal election This electoral calendar 2007 lists the national/federal direct elections held in 2007 in the de jure and de facto sovereign states and their dependent territories. Referendums are included, although they are not elections. By-elections are not ...
the most popular party was the SVP which received 37.6% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the FDP (20.3%), the SP (14.8%) and the CVP (9%). In Schinznach-Bad about 68.8% of the population (between age 25-64) have completed either non-mandatory upper secondary education or additional higher education (either university or a ''
Fachhochschule A ''Fachhochschule'' (; plural ''Fachhochschulen''), abbreviated FH, is a university of applied sciences (UAS), in other words a German tertiary education institution that provides professional education in many applied sciences and applied art ...
''). Of the school age population (), there are 78 students attending
primary school A primary school (in Ireland, the United Kingdom, Australia, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, and South Africa), junior school (in Australia), elementary school or grade school (in North America and the Philippines) is a school for primary e ...
in the municipality. The historical population is given in the following table:


Sights

The village of Schinznach-Bad is designated as part of the
Inventory of Swiss Heritage Sites The Federal Inventory of Heritage Sites (ISOS) is part of a 1981 Ordinance of the Swiss Federal Council implementing the Federal Law on the Protection of Nature and Cultural Heritage. Sites of national importance Types The types are based on t ...
.ISOS site
accessed 09-Apr-2010


Economy

, Schinznach-Bad had an unemployment rate of 2.89%. , there were 8 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 2 businesses involved in this sector. 152 people are employed in the
secondary sector In macroeconomics, the secondary sector of the economy is an economic sector in the three-sector theory that describes the role of manufacturing. It encompasses industries that produce a finished, usable product or are involved in construc ...
and there are 2 businesses in this sector. 944 people are employed in the
tertiary sector The tertiary sector of the economy, generally known as the service sector, is the third of the three economic sectors in the three-sector model (also known as the economic cycle). The others are the primary sector (raw materials) and the second ...
, with 57 businesses in this sector. there was a total of 666 workers who lived in the municipality. Of these, 493 or about 74.0% of the residents worked outside Schinznach-Bad while 784 people commuted into the municipality for work. There were a total of 957 jobs (of at least 6 hours per week) in the municipality.Statistical Department of Canton Aargau-Bereich 11 Verkehr und Nachrichtenwesen
accessed 21 January 2010
Of the working population, 15.5% used public transportation to get to work, and 50.5% used a private car.


Religion

From the , 349 or 27.7% were
Roman Catholic Roman or Romans most often refers to: * Rome, the capital city of Italy *Ancient Rome, Roman civilization from 8th century BC to 5th century AD * Roman people, the people of ancient Rome *'' Epistle to the Romans'', shortened to ''Romans'', a let ...
, while 509 or 40.5% belonged to the
Swiss Reformed Church The Protestant Church in Switzerland (PCS), (EKS); french: Église évangélique réformée de Suisse (EERS); it, Chiesa evangelica riformata in Svizzera (CERiS); rm, Baselgia evangelica refurmada da la Svizra (BRRS) formerly named Federation o ...
. Of the rest of the population, there were 2 individuals (or about 0.16% of the population) who belonged to the Christian Catholic faith.Statistical Department of Canton Aargau - Aargauer Zahlen 2009
accessed 20 January 2010


References

{{Authority control Former municipalities of Aargau Spa towns in Switzerland