Nusshof, Basel-Landschaft, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Nusshof, 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 Nusshof is in the Sissach district and the Basel-Landschaft canton. Nusshof is a farm village with various houses distributed throughout the surrounding hills.

Nusshof (as of 2009) has an area of 1.72 km² (0.66 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 56.4% - agricultural purposes
 * 40.1% - forested
 * 4.7% - settled (buildings or roads)

History
In 1504, Nusshof was first mentioned by the name of der hof by dem Nussbom. Nusshof is in the Sissach district and the Basel-Landschaft canton.

The population history of Nusshof is: 1699 - 58 inhabitants 1770 - 93 inhabitants 1815 - 135 inhabitants 1850 - 197 inhabitants 1860 - 177 inhabitants 1870 - 195 inhabitants 1880 - 170 inhabitants 1888 - 147 inhabitants 1900 - 162 inhabitants 1910 - 173 inhabitants 1920 - 173 inhabitants 1930 - 185 inhabitants 1941 - 143 inhabitants 1950 - 153 inhabitants 1960 - 147 inhabitants 1970 - 119 inhabitants 1980 - 138 inhabitants 1990 - 161 inhabitants 2000 - 201 inhabitants 2021 - 262 inhabitants

Per the 2000 census:
 * 12.4% were Roman Catholic
 * 64.7% were Swiss Reformed Church
 * 2.99% were Other Christian Church

After the Reformation, Nusshof belonged to the Wintersingen parish.

Church Records
Nusshof belongs to the parish of Wintersingen. For church records, see Wintersingen.

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Nusshof:
 * 1815 (images 485-489)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Nusshof 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)