Ettingen Parish, Basel-Landschaft, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Ettingen 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 Ettingen (Swiss German: Ettige) is in the district of Arlesheim in the canton of Basel-Landschaft in Switzerland. It is situated in the southern Leimen valley. It includes the haufendorf village (an irregular, unplanned and quite closely packed village, built around a central square) of Ettingen which has become a commuter town for the agglomeration of Basel.

Ettingen (as of 2009) has an area of 6.35 km² (2.45 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 33.4% - agricultural purposes
 * 49.9% - forested
 * 17.2% - settled (buildings or roads)

History
In 1268, Ettingen was first mentioned by the name of Ettingen.

The population history of Ettingen is: 1583 - 30 hearths 1815 - 500 inhabitants 1850 - 654 inhabitants 1860 - 648 inhabitants 1870 - 705 inhabitants 1880 - 778 inhabitants 1888 - 751 inhabitants 1900 - 841 inhabitants 1910 - 1,091 inhabitants 1920 - 1,144 inhabitants 1930 - 1,082 inhabitants 1941 - 1,077 inhabitants 1950 - 1,220 inhabitants 1960 - 1,403 inhabitants 1970 - 2,191 inhabitants 1980 - 4,079 inhabitants 1990 - 4,859 inhabitants 2000 - 4,764 inhabitants 2021 - 5,538 inhabitants

Per the 2000 census:
 * 45.4% belonged to the Roman Catholic Church
 * 31.8% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church
 * 0.55% belonged to an Orthodox church
 * 0.17% belonged to the Christian Catholic Church
 * 2.60% belonged to another Christian church
 * 1.51% belonged to the Islamic faith

In 1525, Ettingen became citizens of Basle and adopted the Reformation around 1530, but around 1590 returned to Catholicism. From 1526 to 1528, Ettingen with Therwil formed a center of Anabaptists. The church of Saints Peter and Paul dates from the 15th and 18th centuries, the choir of 1717. From 1700 until 1802, Ettingen became an extension of the parish of Therwil.

Church Records
Ettingen was part of the parish of Therwil until 1802, when it became an independent parish. For earlier records, see Therwil.

Parish records for Ettingen are available online from the Basel-Landschaft State Archive. The 4 volumes of digitized records include:
 * 1829-1875 Baptisms at Basel-Landschaft State Archive
 * 1847-1875 Marriages at Basel-Landschaft State Archive
 * 1850-1875 Burials at Basel-Landschaft State Archive

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

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Ettingen 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)