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 consists of 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: 1700 - NUMBER inhabitants 1750 - NUMBER inhabitants 1800 - NUMBER inhabitants 1850 - NUMBER inhabitants 1860 - NUMBER inhabitants 1870 - NUMBER inhabitants 1880 - NUMBER inhabitants 1890 - NUMBER inhabitants 1900 - NUMBER inhabitants 1910 - NUMBER inhabitants 1920 - NUMBER inhabitants 1930 - NUMBER inhabitants 1940 - NUMBER inhabitants 1950 - NUMBER inhabitants 1960 - NUMBER inhabitants 1970 - NUMBER inhabitants 1980 - NUMBER inhabitants 1990 - NUMBER inhabitants 2000 - NUMBER inhabitants 2010 - NUMBER inhabitants 2014 - NUMBER inhabitants 2018 - NUMBER inhabitants 2020 - NUMBER 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

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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)