Füllinsdorf, Basel-Landschaft, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Füllinsdorf, 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 Füllinsdorf is in the district of Liestal in the canton of Basel-Landschaft in Switzerland. The old village was constructed on the hillside above the Ergolz valley.

Füllinsdorf (as of 2009) has an area of 4.61 km² (1.78 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 37.1% - agricultural purposes
 * 32.3% - forested
 * 30.4% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * 0.7% - non-productive (either rivers or lakes)

History
In 825, Füllinsdorf was first mentioned by the name of Firinisvilla. It was also mentioned in 1225-26 as Vilistorf.

The population history of Füllinsdorf is: 1585 - 80 inhabitants 1770 - 256 inhabitants 1850 - 722 inhabitants 1860 - 797 inhabitants 1870 - 879 inhabitants 1880 - 1,068 inhabitants 1888 - 1,022 inhabitants 1900 - 1,051 inhabitants 1910 - 1,082 inhabitants 1920 - 1,073 inhabitants 1930 - 1,153 inhabitants 1941 - 1,054 inhabitants 1950 - 1,258 inhabitants 1960 - 1,723 inhabitants 1970 - 3,104 inhabitants 1980 - 4,005 inhabitants 1990 - 3,989 inhabitants 2000 - 4,164 inhabitants 2021 - 4,653 inhabitants

Per the 2000 census:
 * 25.7% belonged to the Roman Catholic Church
 * 44.1% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church
 * 2.31% belonged to an Orthodox church
 * 0.31% belonged to the Christian Catholic Church
 * 3.41% belonged to another Christian church
 * 0.10% belonged to the Jewish faith
 * 7.73% belonged to the Islamic faith

Füllinsdorf together with Frenkendorf was part of the parish of Munzach. From the Middle Ages to the Reformation, there was a chapel consecrated to St. Gallus in Füllinsdorf. From 1765, Füllinsdorf formed a parish with Frenkendorf. From 1861, it had a chapel and then the church was built in 1975-1976.

Church Records
Füllinsdorf is part of the parish of Frenkendorf. For church records, see Frenkendorf.

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Füllinsdorf:
 * 1815 (images 370-379)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Füllinsdorf 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)