Häfelfingen, Basel-Landschaft, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Häfelfingen, 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 Häfelfingen is in the district of Sissach in the canton of Basel-Landschaft in Switzerland. It is situated in a side valley off the Homburger valley. It includes the village of Häfelfingen and eleven scattered houses or small settlements.

Häfelfingen (as of 2009) has an area of 3.96 km² (1.53 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 58.6% - agricultural purposes
 * 34.6% - forested
 * 6.3% - settled (buildings or roads)

History
In 1358, Häfelfingen was first mentioned by the name of Hevelingen.

The population history of Häfelfingen is: 1770 - 150 inhabitants 1774 - 132 inhabitants 1833 - 322 inhabitants 1850 - 309 inhabitants 1860 - 317 inhabitants 1870 - 305 inhabitants 1880 - 286 inhabitants 1888 - 324 inhabitants 1900 - 273 inhabitants 1910 - 280 inhabitants 1920 - 283 inhabitants 1930 - 245 inhabitants 1941 - 245 inhabitants 1950 - 225 inhabitants 1960 - 204 inhabitants 1970 - 232 inhabitants 1980 - 219 inhabitants 1990 - 239 inhabitants 2000 - 268 inhabitants 2021 - 256 inhabitants

Per the 2000 census:
 * 7.1% belonged to the Roman Catholic Church
 * 66.8% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church
 * 4.48% belonged to an Orthodox church
 * 5.60% belonged to another Christian church
 * 1.87% belonged to the Islamic faith

Häfelfingen belongs to the parish of Rümlingen.

Church Records
Häfelfingen is part of the parish of Rümlingen. For church records, see Rümlingen.

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Häfelfingen:
 * 1815 (images 121-126)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Häfelfingen 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)