Ormalingen Parish, Basel-Landschaft, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Ormalingen 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.



Geography
The municipality of Ormalingen is in the Sissach district and the Basel-Landschaft canton. It is located in the upper Ergolz valley on the old road over the Schafmatt pass.

Ormalingen (as of 2009) has an area of 6.94 km² (2.68 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 51.0% - agricultural purposes
 * 37.5% - forested
 * 11.4% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * 0.1% - rivers or lakes

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

The population history of Ormalingen is: 1680 - 413 inhabitants 1798 - 481 inhabitants 1837 - 668 inhabitants 1850 - 783 inhabitants 1860 - 838 inhabitants 1870 - 806 inhabitants 1880 - 878 inhabitants 1888 - 871 inhabitants 1900 - 917 inhabitants 1910 - 885 inhabitants 1920 - 926 inhabitants 1930 - 909 inhabitants 1941 - 786 inhabitants 1950 - 824 inhabitants 1960 - 927 inhabitants 1970 - 1,116 inhabitants 1980 - 1,305 inhabitants 1990 - 1,497 inhabitants 2000 - 1,881 inhabitants 2021 - 2,303 inhabitants

Per the 2000 census:
 * 16.0% were Roman Catholic
 * 66.7% were Swiss Reformed Church
 * 0.48% were Orthodox Church
 * 0.16% were Christian Catholic Church
 * 2.98% were Other Christian Church

Spiritually, Ormalingen belonged to the Gelterkinden parish, then the Buus parish, back again to Gelterkinden parish. Since 1740, Ormalingen formed a new parish with Hemmiken. In 1340, the Saint-Nicolas church was built.

Church Records
Originally part of Gelterkinden. Ormalingen, along with Hemmiken, established an independent parish in 1740. For earlier church records, see Gelterkinden.

Parish records for Ormalingen are available online from the Basel-Landschaft State Archive. The 36 volumes of digitized records include:
 * 1741-1917 Baptisms at Basel-Landschaft State Archive
 * 1741-1941 Marriages at Basel-Landschaft State Archive
 * 1741-1962 Burials at Basel-Landschaft State Archive
 * 1793-1936 Confirmations at Basel-Landschaft State Archive
 * 1741-1910 Family books at Basel-Landschaft State Archive - organized by community

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Ormalingen:
 * 1815 (images 180-194)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Ormalingen 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)