Grellingen Parish, Basel-Landschaft, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Grellingen Parish, 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 Grellingen is in the district of Laufen in the canton of Basel-Landschaft in Switzerland. It includes the linear village of Grellingen in the Birs river valley.

Grellingen (as of 2009) has an area of 3.31 km² (1.28 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 20.8% - agricultural purposes
 * 57.1% - forested
 * 19.3% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * 3.3% - either rivers or lakes

History
In 1274, Grellingen was first mentioned by the name of Grellingen.

The population history of Grellingen is: 1586 - 27 inhabitants 1770 - 205 inhabitants 1850 - 512 inhabitants 1860 - 500 inhabitants 1870 - 815 inhabitants 1880 - 1,032 inhabitants 1888 - 998 inhabitants 1900 - 1,012 inhabitants 1910 - 1,000 inhabitants 1920 - 1,030 inhabitants 1930 - 1,085 inhabitants 1941 - 1,067 inhabitants 1950 - 1,160 inhabitants 1960 - 1,399 inhabitants 1970 - 1,565 inhabitants 1980 - 1,450 inhabitants 1990 - 1,551 inhabitants 2000 - 1,595 inhabitants 2021 - 1,896 inhabitants

Per the 2000 census:
 * 49.2% belonged to the Roman Catholic Church
 * 17.2% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church
 * 1.32% belonged to an Orthodox church
 * 0.19% belonged to the Christian Catholic Church
 * 3.01% belonged to another Christian church
 * 12.16% belonged to the Islamic faith

Grellingen adopted the Reformation from 1529 to 1582. Originally belonging to the Pfeffingen mother church, it established its own parish in 1845. In 1874-1935, Grellingen was united with Duggingen and Nenzlingen. In 1835, the present Saint-Laurent church replaced an 18th-century chapel.

Church Records
Originally Catholic, Grellingen was briefly Protestant from 1529-1582 before it was re-Catholicized. It was established as an independent parish in 1845 from the parish of Pfeffingen. For earlier records, see Pfeffingen and Nenzlingen.

Parish records for Grellingen are available online from the Basel-Landschaft State Archive. The 9 volumes of digitized records include:
 * 1763-1875 Baptisms at Basel-Landschaft State Archive
 * 1838-1875 Marriages at Basel-Landschaft State Archive
 * 1837-1875 Burials at Basel-Landschaft State Archive

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

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Grellingen 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)