Laufen Parish, Basel-Landschaft, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Laufen Parish, 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.

Church Records
The parish church in Laufen was first mentioned in 1265. The area became Protestant during the Reformation in 1525, but it was re-Catholicized in 1588. Laufen included the municipalities of Dittingen, Grellingen, Nenzlingen, and Röschenz until 1802; Wahlen until 1839, and Zwingen until 1906.

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

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Laufen 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)