Seltisberg, Basel-Landschaft, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Seltisberg, 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 Seltisberg is in the Liestal district and the Basel-Landschaft canton. It is located on a high plateau in the Jura Mountains between the Oris valley and the Hinteren Frenken valley.

Seltisberg (as of 2009) has an area of 3.57 km² (1.38 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 45.7% - agricultural purposes
 * 37.0% - forested
 * 16.0% - settled (buildings or roads)

History
In 1194, Seltisberg was first mentioned by the name of Selboldisberch. Seltisberg is in the Liestal district and the Basel-Landschaft canton.

The population history of Seltisberg is: 1497 - 25 inhabitants 1680 - 150 inhabitants 1850 - 434 inhabitants 1860 - 402 inhabitants 1870 - 409 inhabitants 1880 - 472 inhabitants 1888 - 473 inhabitants 1900 - 410 inhabitants 1910 - 415 inhabitants 1920 - 496 inhabitants 1930 - 484 inhabitants 1941 - 437 inhabitants 1950 - 439 inhabitants 1960 - 506 inhabitants 1970 - 702 inhabitants 1980 - 911 inhabitants 1990 - 1,004 inhabitants 2000 - 1,217 inhabitants 2021 - 1,313 inhabitants

Per the 2000 census:
 * 20.0% were Roman Catholic
 * 62.6% were Swiss Reformed Church
 * 0.25% were Orthodox Church
 * 0.16% were Christian Catholic Church
 * 2.38% were Other Christian Church

Spiritually, Seltisberg belonged to the Sankt Pantaleon parish until the Reformation. It then belonged to the Liestal parish.

Church Records
Seltisberg belongs to the parish of Liestal. For church records, see Liestal.

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Seltisberg:
 * 1815 (images 498-506)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Seltisberg 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)