Niederdorf, Basel-Landschaft, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Niederdorf, 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 Niederdorf is in the Waldenburg district and the Basel-Landschaft canton. It is located in the Waldenburger and Vorderen Frenken valleys on the old road over the Oberen Hauenstein Pass. The municipality includes the village of Niederdorf and 14 surrounding farm settlements.

Niederdorf (as of 2009) has an area of 4.41 km² (1.70 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 58.3% - agricultural purposes
 * 26.5% - forested
 * 15.0% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * 0.2% - rivers or lakes
 * 0.2% - non-productive

History
In 1345, Niederdorf was first mentioned by the name of Onoltzwil in dem [...] nidern dorff. In 1453, as Niderndorff. Niederdorf is in the Waldenburg district and the Basel-Landschaft canton.

The population history of Niederdorf is: 1497 - 32 inhabitants 1699 - 141 inhabitants 1743 - 171 inhabitants 1850 - 506 inhabitants 1860 - 470 inhabitants 1870 - 442 inhabitants 1880 - 469 inhabitants 1888 - 419 inhabitants 1900 - 488 inhabitants 1910 - 556 inhabitants 1920 - 604 inhabitants 1930 - 622 inhabitants 1941 - 664 inhabitants 1950 - 740 inhabitants 1960 - 1,023 inhabitants 1970 - 1,337 inhabitants 1980 - 1,506 inhabitants 1990 - 1,618 inhabitants 2000 - 1,933 inhabitants 2021 - 1,818 inhabitants

Per the 2000 census:
 * 24.0% were Roman Catholic
 * 50.5% were Swiss Reformed Church
 * 2.07% were Orthodox Church
 * 0.41% were Christian Catholic Church
 * 2.22% were Other Christian Church

After the Reformation, the Saint-Nicolas chapel served the community.

Church Records
Niederdorf belongs to the parish of Waldenburg. For church records, see Waldenburg.

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Niederdorf:
 * 1815 (images 453-461)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Niederdorf 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)