Wenslingen, Basel-Landschaft, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Wenslingen, 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 Wenslingen is in the Sissach district and the Basel-Landschaft canton. It is located on a high plateau of the southern tabular Jura, between the Eibach valley to the southwest and the Ergolz valley to the northeast.

Wenslingen (as of 2009) has an area of 5.91 km² (2.28 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 62.3% - agricultural purposes
 * 29.9% - forested
 * 6.6% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * 0.2% - rivers or lakes

History
In 1280, Wenslingen was first mentioned by the name of Wenslingen. Wenslingen is in the Sissach district and the Basel-Landschaft canton.

The population history of Wenslingen is: 1497 - 71 inhabitants 1699 - 233 inhabitants 1743 - 246 inhabitants 1798 - 377 inhabitants 1850 - 615 inhabitants 1860 - 636 inhabitants 1870 - 632 inhabitants 1880 - 619 inhabitants 1888 - 625 inhabitants 1900 - 603 inhabitants 1910 - 555 inhabitants 1920 - 521 inhabitants 1930 - 505 inhabitants 1941 - 495 inhabitants 1950 - 496 inhabitants 1960 - 496 inhabitants 1970 - 486 inhabitants 1980 - 505 inhabitants 1990 - 613 inhabitants 2000 - 655 inhabitants 2021 - 699 inhabitants

Per the 2000 census:
 * 10.7% were Roman Catholic
 * 71.5% were Swiss Reformed Church
 * 5.04% were Other Christian Church

Spiritually, Wenslingen belonged to the Oltingen parish.

Church Records
Wenslingen belongs to the parish of Oltingen. For church records, see Oltingen.

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Wenslingen:
 * 1815 (images 284-294)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Wenslingen 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)