Itingen, Basel-Landschaft, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Itingen, 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 Itingen is in the district of Sissach in the canton of Basel-Landschaft in Switzerland. It is situated in the mid-Ergolz valley. The old village center is situated perpendicular to the old cantonal road and to the left of the Basel-Olten rail line.

Itingen (as of 2009) has an area of 3.14 km² (1.21 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 28.7% - agricultural purposes
 * 47.1% - forested
 * 23.9% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * 0.3% - non-productive

History
In 1226, Itingen was first mentioned by the name of Utingen. It was mentioned again in 1454 as Uetingen.

The population history of Itingen is: 1680 - 161 inhabitants 1743 - 211 inhabitants 1798 - 275 inhabitants 1850 - 500 inhabitants 1860 - 520 inhabitants 1870 - 513 inhabitants 1880 - 528 inhabitants 1888 - 547 inhabitants 1900 - 559 inhabitants 1910 - 581 inhabitants 1920 - 571 inhabitants 1930 - 529 inhabitants 1941 - 544 inhabitants 1950 - 644 inhabitants 1960 - 882 inhabitants 1970 - 1,083 inhabitants 1980 - 1,114 inhabitants 1990 - 1,414 inhabitants 2000 - 1,618 inhabitants 2021 - 2,216 inhabitants

Per the 2000 census:
 * 25.0% belonged to the Roman Catholic Church
 * 54.9% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church
 * 0.93% belonged to an Orthodox church
 * 0.25% belonged to the Christian Catholic Church
 * 1.36% belonged to another Christian church
 * 0.19% belonged to the Jewish faith
 * 4.94% belonged to the Islamic faith

Before the Reformation, Itingen owned a chapel, but it has always been part of Sissach ecclesiastically.

Church Records
Itingen 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 Itingen:
 * 1815 (images 134-143)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Itingen 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)