Böckten, Basel-Landschaft, Switzerland Genealogy

Guide to Böckten, 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 Böckten is in the district of Sissach in the canton of Basel-Landschaft in Switzerland. It is a strassendorf (Vorderdorf) and heap village (Hinterdorf) in the middle of the Ergolz valley between Sissach and Gelterkinden.

Böckten (as of 2009) has an area of 2.28 km² (0.88 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 43.0% - agricultural purposes
 * 41.7% - forested
 * 14.5% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * 1.3% - either rivers or lakes

History
In 1246, Böckten was first mentioned by the name of Bettinghofen, which became simplified to Bettinchon. It was also mentioned in 1339 as Betkon.

The population history of Böckten is: 1680 - 115 inhabitants 1798 - 236 inhabitants 1850 - 316 inhabitants 1860 - 300 inhabitants 1870 - 292 inhabitants 1880 - 364 inhabitants 1888 - 407 inhabitants 1900 - 393 inhabitants 1910 - 363 inhabitants 1920 - 394 inhabitants 1930 - 376 inhabitants 1941 - 351 inhabitants 1950 - 420 inhabitants 1960 - 539 inhabitants 1970 - 556 inhabitants 1980 - 547 inhabitants 1990 - 704 inhabitants 2000 - 669 inhabitants 2021 - 812 inhabitants

Per the 2000 census:
 * 16.9% belonged to the Roman Catholic Church
 * 58.1% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church
 * 0.30% belonged to an Orthodox church
 * 0.90% belonged to the Christian Catholic Church
 * 3.14% belonged to another Christian church
 * 4.93% belonged to the Islamic faith

Böckten belongs to the Sissach Parish. A Gallus chapel was located here before the Reformation (1528).

Church Records
Böckten 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 Böckten:
 * 1815 (images 75-81)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Böckten 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)