Thürnen, Basel-Landschaft, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Thürnen, 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 Thürnen is in the Sissach district and the Basel-Landschaft canton. It is located at the entrance to the Homburg valley, on the road that leads to the Lower Hauenstein pass.

Thürnen (as of 2009) has an area of 2.25 km² (0.87 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 56.9% - agricultural purposes
 * 25.3% - forested
 * 18.7% - settled (buildings or roads)

History
In 1103, Thürnen was first mentioned by the name of Durnun. Thürnen is in the Sissach district and the Basel-Landschaft canton.

The population history of Thürnen is: 1680 - 81 inhabitants 1698 - 111 inhabitants 1770 - 158 inhabitants 1798 - 175 inhabitants 1850 - 264 inhabitants 1860 - 308 inhabitants 1870 - 320 inhabitants 1880 - 305 inhabitants 1888 - 318 inhabitants 1900 - 347 inhabitants 1910 - 340 inhabitants 1920 - 345 inhabitants 1930 - 374 inhabitants 1941 - 334 inhabitants 1950 - 331 inhabitants 1960 - 437 inhabitants 1970 - 818 inhabitants 1980 - 954 inhabitants 1990 - 1,051 inhabitants 2000 - 1,167 inhabitants 2021 - 1,397 inhabitants

Per the 2000 census:
 * 23.0% were Roman Catholic
 * 61.5% were Swiss Reformed Church
 * 0.17% were Christian Catholic Church
 * 1.54% were other Christian Church

Spiritually, Thürnen belonged to the Sissach parish. From 1896, Thürnen belonged to the Protestant parish of Saint-Jacques. During the Reformation, a chapel dedicated to Saint Blaise was destroyed.

Church Records
Thürnen belongs to the parish of Sissach. For church records, see Sissach.

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Thürnen:
 * 1815 (images 277-283)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Thürnen 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)