Hölstein, Basel-Landschaft, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Hölstein, 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 Hölstein is in the district of Waldenburg in the canton of Basel-Landschaft in Switzerland. It includes the village of Hölstein, the settlements of Gründen and Holdenweid, and 15 individual farmhouses.

Hölstein (as of 2009) has an area of 6.03 km² (2.33 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 43.3% - agricultural purposes
 * 39.8% - forested
 * 14.8% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * 0.8% - either rivers or lakes
 * 0.2% - non-productive

History
In 1101-03, Hölstein was first mentioned by the name of Hulestein.

The population history of Hölstein is: 1497 - 48 inhabitants 1680 - 210 inhabitants 1774 - 299 inhabitants 1850 - 620 inhabitants 1860 - 561 inhabitants 1870 - 542 inhabitants 1880 - 550 inhabitants 1888 - 558 inhabitants 1900 - 549 inhabitants 1910 - 722 inhabitants 1920 - 787 inhabitants 1930 - 771 inhabitants 1941 - 928 inhabitants 1950 - 957 inhabitants 1960 - 1,187 inhabitants 1970 - 1,343 inhabitants 1980 - 1,480 inhabitants 1990 - 1,916 inhabitants 2000 - 2,071 inhabitants 2021 - 2,573 inhabitants

Per the 2000 census:
 * 19.7% belonged to the Roman Catholic Church
 * 55.0% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church
 * 0.97% belonged to an Orthodox church
 * 0.34% belonged to the Christian Catholic Church
 * 5.50% belonged to another Christian church
 * 4.59% belonged to the Islamic faith

The Sainte-Marguerite church was constructed between 1590 and 1591. Today, Hölstein is part of Bennwil-Lampenberg parish.

Church Records
Hölstein belongs to the parish of Bennwil. For church records, see Bennwil.

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Hölstein:
 * 1815 (images 440-452)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Hölstein 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)