Lampenberg, Basel-Landschaft, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Lampenberg, 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 Lampenberg is in the district of Waldenburg in the canton of Basel-Landschaft in Switzerland. It is situated in a depression between the Vorderen and Hinteren Frenke. It consists of the village of Lampenberg.

Lampenberg (as of 2009) has an area of 3.99 km² (1.54 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 54.6% - agricultural purposes
 * 39.1% - forested
 * 7.3% - settled (buildings or roads)

History
In 1226, Lampenberg was first mentioned by the name of Lampenberc.

The population history of Lampenberg is: 1680 - 178 inhabitants 1834 - 338 inhabitants 1850 - 401 inhabitants 1860 - 364 inhabitants 1870 - 375 inhabitants 1880 - 354 inhabitants 1888 - 338 inhabitants 1900 - 338 inhabitants 1910 - 300 inhabitants 1920 - 332 inhabitants 1930 - 309 inhabitants 1941 - 296 inhabitants 1950 - 318 inhabitants 1960 - 328 inhabitants 1970 - 307 inhabitants 1980 - 386 inhabitants 1990 - 443 inhabitants 2000 - 441 inhabitants 2021 - 522 inhabitants

Per the 2000 census:
 * 16.1% belonged to the Roman Catholic Church
 * 71.0% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church
 * 4.76% belonged to another Christian church

Lampenberg was part of the parish of St. Peter in Oberdorf until the Reformation in 1529. Since 1535, it has created a parish with Bennwil and Hölstein. The Verena chapel, attested to as early as the 13th century, was transformed into a residential building in 1532.

Church Records
Lampenberg is part of the parish of Bennwil. For church records, see Bennwil.

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Lampenberg:
 * 1815 (images 418-425)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Lampenberg 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)