Wintersingen Parish, Basel-Landschaft, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Wintersingen 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 Wintersingen is in the Sissach district and the Basel-Landschaft canton. It is located in a basin formed by the Wintersingerbach, north of the Kienberg.

Wintersingen (as of 2009) has an area of 6.95 km² (2.68 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 57.6% - agricultural purposes
 * 34.5% - forested
 * 6.9% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * 0.1% - rivers or lakes
 * 0.4% - non-productive

History
In 1213, Wintersingen was first mentioned by the name of vvintersingin. Wintersingen is in the Sissach district and the Basel-Landschaft canton.

The population history of Wintersingen is: 1497 - 71 inhabitants 1699 - 343 inhabitants 1743 - 434 inhabitants 1798 - 424 inhabitants 1850 - 575 inhabitants 1860 - 552 inhabitants 1870 - 580 inhabitants 1880 - 521 inhabitants 1888 - 535 inhabitants 1900 - 567 inhabitants 1910 - 548 inhabitants 1920 - 545 inhabitants 1930 - 480 inhabitants 1941 - 458 inhabitants 1950 - 492 inhabitants 1960 - 486 inhabitants 1970 - 502 inhabitants 1980 - 441 inhabitants 1990 - 486 inhabitants 2000 - 588 inhabitants 2021 - 637 inhabitants

Per the 2000 census:
 * 10.9% were Roman Catholic
 * 72.3% were Swiss Reformed Church
 * 0.34% were Orthodox Church
 * 0.68% were Christian Catholic Church
 * 0.51% were other Christian Church

Wintersingen formed the parish with Nusshof.

Church Records
Wintersingen has been a Reformed parish since the 1520s. It includes the municipality of Nusshof. Parish records for Wintersingen are available online from the Basel-Landschaft State Archive. The 22 volumes of digitized records include:
 * 1563-1911 Baptisms at Basel-Landschaft State Archive
 * 1630-1920 Marriages at Basel-Landschaft State Archive - with gaps
 * 1630-1915 Burials at Basel-Landschaft State Archive - with gaps
 * 1630-1909 Confirmations at Basel-Landschaft State Archive - with gaps
 * 1769-1912 Family books at Basel-Landschaft State Archive - organized by location

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Wintersingen:
 * 1815 (images 507-522)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Wintersingen 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)