Lausen Parish, Basel-Landschaft, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Lausen 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 Lausen is in the district of Liestal in the canton of Basel-Landschaft in Switzerland. It is situated in the mid-Ergolz valley, south-east of Liestal.

Lausen (as of 2009) has an area of 5.56 km² (2.15 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 23.6% - agricultural purposes
 * 50.5% - forested
 * 25.0% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * 0.5% - either rivers or lakes
 * 0.4% - non-productive

History
In 1275, Lausen was first mentioned by the name of in villa et banno Langenso.

The population history of Lausen is: 1850 - 804 inhabitants 1860 - 743 inhabitants 1870 - 815 inhabitants 1880 - 879 inhabitants 1888 - 918 inhabitants 1900 - 1,020 inhabitants 1910 - 1,049 inhabitants 1920 - 1,108 inhabitants 1930 - 1,373 inhabitants 1941 - 1,502 inhabitants 1950 - 1,733 inhabitants 1960 - 2,715 inhabitants 1970 - 2,886 inhabitants 1980 - 3,478 inhabitants 1990 - 4,289 inhabitants 2000 - 4,645 inhabitants 2021 - 5,588 inhabitants

Per the 2000 census:
 * 26.7% belonged to the Roman Catholic Church
 * 47.9% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church
 * 1.36% belonged to an Orthodox church
 * 0.09% belonged to the Christian Catholic Church
 * 2.82% belonged to another Christian church
 * 7.34% belonged to the Islamic faith

The parish church was built in the 11th century on the site of the 6th century funerary chapel and dedicated to Saint Nicolas. It was then replaced in the middle of the 15th century by a new construction with significant frescoes in the late Gothic style.

Church Records
The church in Lausen was first mentioned in the 11th century. It became Reformed during the 1520s. Parish records for Lausen are available online from the Basel-Landschaft State Archive. The 25 volumes of digitized records include:
 * 1577-1938 Baptisms at Basel-Landschaft State Archive
 * 1542-1917 Marriages at Basel-Landschaft State Archive - with gaps
 * 1631-1900 Burials at Basel-Landschaft State Archive - with gaps
 * 1739-1900 Confirmations at Basel-Landschaft State Archive - with gaps
 * 1727-1916 Baptisms at Basel-Landschaft State Archive

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Lausen:
 * 1815 (images 389-406)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Lausen 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)