Diepflingen, Basel-Landschaft, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Diepflingen, 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 Diepflingen is in the district of Sissach in the canton of Basel-Landschaft in Switzerland. It is situated on the right side of the Homburger stream on the old road over the lower Hauenstein.

Diepflingen (as of 2009) has an area of 1.44 km² (0.56 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 32.6% - agricultural purposes
 * 52.8% - forested
 * 12.5% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * 0.7% - non-productive (either rivers or lakes)

History
In 1251, Diepflingen was first mentioned by the name of Dyephlinchon.

The population history of Diepflingen is: 1698 - 85 inhabitants 1798 - 188 inhabitants 1850 - 218 inhabitants 1860 - 233 inhabitants 1870 - 239 inhabitants 1880 - 233 inhabitants 1888 - 240 inhabitants 1900 - 230 inhabitants 1910 - 251 inhabitants 1920 - 244 inhabitants 1930 - 183 inhabitants 1941 - 186 inhabitants 1950 - 222 inhabitants 1960 - 266 inhabitants 1970 - 356 inhabitants 1980 - 397 inhabitants 1990 - 431 inhabitants 2000 - 506 inhabitants 2021 - 765 inhabitants

Per the 2000 census:
 * 22.3% belonged to the Roman Catholic Church
 * 57.3% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church
 * 0.79% belonged to the Christian Catholic Church
 * 1.98% belonged to another Christian church
 * 8.50% belonged to the Islamic faith

Religiously, Diepflingen belongs to Sissach.

Church Records
Diepflingen belongs to the parish of Sissach. For records, see Sissach.

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Diepflingen:
 * 1815 (images 91-95)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Diepflingen 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)