Hersberg, Basel-Landschaft, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Hersberg, 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 Hersberg is in the district of Liestal in the canton of Basel-Landschaft in Switzerland. It is situated along the drainage divide between the Ergolz, Violenbach, and Talbächli rivers.

Hersberg (as of 2009) has an area of 1.67 km² (0.64 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 37.7% - agricultural purposes
 * 51.5% - forested
 * 12.0% - settled (buildings or roads)

History
In 1226, Hersberg was first mentioned by the name of Herisperch.

The population history of Hersberg is: 1850 - 106 inhabitants 1860 - 81 inhabitants 1870 - 77 inhabitants 1880 - 79 inhabitants 1888 - 92 inhabitants 1900 - 86 inhabitants 1910 - 97 inhabitants 1920 - 109 inhabitants 1930 - 107 inhabitants 1941 - 88 inhabitants 1950 - 108 inhabitants 1960 - 93 inhabitants 1970 - 137 inhabitants 1980 - 234 inhabitants 1990 - 256 inhabitants 2000 - 261 inhabitants 2021 - 356 inhabitants

Per the 2000 census:
 * 20.7% belonged to the Roman Catholic Church
 * 56.3% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church
 * 1.92% belonged to another Christian church
 * 1.15% belonged to the Islamic faith

Hersberg is part of the Arisdorf parish.

Church Records
Hersberg is part of the parish of Arisdorf. For church records, see Arisdorf.

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Hersberg:
 * 1815 (images 386-388)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Hersberg 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)