Hemmiken, Basel-Landschaft, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Hemmiken, Basel-Landschaft, 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 Hemmiken is in the district of Sissach in the canton of Basel-Landschaft in Switzerland. It is situated on the right side of a smaller valley off the Ergolz valley. It includes the linear village of Hemmiken.

Hemmiken (as of 2009) has an area of 3.39 km² (1.31 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 70.2% - agricultural purposes
 * 25.4% - forested
 * 5.6% - settled (buildings or roads)

History
In 1255, Hemmiken was first mentioned by the name of Enninchon.

The population history of Hemmiken is: 1850 - 363 inhabitants 1860 - 383 inhabitants 1870 - 365 inhabitants 1880 - 330 inhabitants 1888 - 341 inhabitants 1900 - 335 inhabitants 1910 - 285 inhabitants 1920 - 258 inhabitants 1930 - 223 inhabitants 1941 - 250 inhabitants 1950 - 249 inhabitants 1960 - 238 inhabitants 1970 - 232 inhabitants 1980 - 240 inhabitants 1990 - 263 inhabitants 2000 - 290 inhabitants 2021 - 266 inhabitants

Per the 2000 census:
 * 15.9% belonged to the Roman Catholic Church
 * 70.7% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church
 * 2.07% belonged to the Christian Catholic Church
 * 1.72% belonged to the Islamic faith

Hemmiken is part of Ormalingen parish.

Church Records
Hemmiken belonged to the parish of Buus until 1741, when it was transferred to the newly-created parish of Ormalingen. For church records, see Ormalingen after 1741 and Buus before 1741.

Census
(See here for information regarding Basel-Landschaft census records.)

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Hemmiken:
 * 1815 (images 127-133)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Hemmiken prior to 1875:

Related sources
The town's website (in German) can be found here.

Libraries and archives
State Archives of Basel-Landschaft

Societies
Genealogical-Heraldic Society of Region Basel (GHGRB)