Rümlingen Parish, Basel-Landschaft, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Rümlingen 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 Rümlingen is in the Sissach district and the Basel-Landschaft canton. It is located in the Homburg valley.

Rümlingen (as of 2009) has an area of 2.28 km² (0.88 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 47.4% - agricultural purposes
 * 40.4% - forested
 * 10.5% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * 1.3% - rivers or lakes

History
In 1358, Rümlingen was first mentioned by the name of Rumelikon. Rümlingen is in the Sissach district and the Basel-Landschaft canton.

The population history of Rümlingen is: 1680 - 121 inhabitants 1798 - 173 inhabitants 1850 - 237 inhabitants 1860 - 264 inhabitants 1870 - 241 inhabitants 1880 - 220 inhabitants 1888 - 219 inhabitants 1900 - 210 inhabitants 1910 - 197 inhabitants 1920 - 197 inhabitants 1930 - 193 inhabitants 1941 - 199 inhabitants 1950 - 219 inhabitants 1960 - 293 inhabitants 1970 - 390 inhabitants 1980 - 328 inhabitants 1990 - 318 inhabitants 2000 - 321 inhabitants 2021 - 444 inhabitants

Per the 2000 census:
 * 13.7% were Roman Catholic
 * 51.7% were Swiss Reformed Church
 * 0.62% were Orthodox Church
 * 5.92% were Other Christian Church

Spiritually, Rümlingen originally belonged to the Sissach parish. In 1501, Rümlingen separated from the Sissach parish to for a new parish with Buckten, Häfelfingen, Känerkinden and Wittinsburg. In 1501, the Saint-Georges parish church was built. In 1669, it was enlarged.

Church Records
Since 1501, Rümlingen has been the location of the parish that includes the municipalities of Buckten, Häfelfingen, Känerkinden, and Wittinsburg. The area became Reformed in the 1520s. Parish records for Rümlingen are available online from the Basel-Landschaft State Archive. The 42 volumes of digitized records include:
 * 1566-1905 Baptisms at Basel-Landschaft State Archive
 * 1558-1917 Marriages at Basel-Landschaft State Archive
 * 1619-1917 Burials at Basel-Landschaft State Archive
 * 1622-1915 Confirmations at Basel-Landschaft State Archive - with gaps
 * 1778-1913 Family books at Basel-Landschaft State Archive - organized by location

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Rümlingen:
 * 1815 (images 222-227)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Rümlingen 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)