Känerkinden, Basel-Landschaft, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Känerkinden, 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 Känerkinden is in the district of Sissach in the canton of Basel-Landschaft in Switzerland. It is situated in a small depression in the Jura Mountains between the Diegter valley and the Homburger valley.

Känerkinden (as of 2009) has an area of 1.48 km² (0.57 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 68.2% - agricultural purposes
 * 13.5% - forested
 * 15.5% - settled (buildings or roads)

History
In 1359, Känerkinden was first mentioned by the name of Kennichingen.

The population history of Känerkinden is: 1680 - 92 inhabitants 1698 - 107 inhabitants 1770 - 142 inhabitants 1850 - 190 inhabitants 1860 - 209 inhabitants 1870 - 180 inhabitants 1880 - 203 inhabitants 1888 - 190 inhabitants 1900 - 199 inhabitants 1910 - 195 inhabitants 1920 - 201 inhabitants 1930 - 204 inhabitants 1941 - 207 inhabitants 1950 - 211 inhabitants 1960 - 219 inhabitants 1970 - 255 inhabitants 1980 - 301 inhabitants 1990 - 395 inhabitants 2000 - 484 inhabitants 2021 - 527 inhabitants

Per the 2000 census:
 * 19.0% belonged to the Roman Catholic Church
 * 63.2% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church
 * 0.41% belonged to an Orthodox church
 * 0.41% belonged to the Christian Catholic Church
 * 2.07% belonged to another Christian church
 * 2.89% belonged to the Islamic faith

Känerkinden was part of the Rümlingen parish.

Church Records
Känerkinden belongs to 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 Känerkinden:
 * 1815 (images 144-149)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Känerkinden 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)