Rünenberg, Basel-Landschaft, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Rünenberg, 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 Rünenberg is in the Sissach district and the Basel-Landschaft canton. It is located on a high plateau between the Homburger and Eital valleys. The municipality of Rünenberg includes the linear village of Rünenberg.

Rünenberg (as of 2009) has an area of 4.98 km² (1.92 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 55.2% - agricultural purposes
 * 37.8% - forested
 * 6.8% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * 0.2% - rivers or lakes

History
In 1101, Rünenberg was first mentioned by the name of Runachperh. Rünenberg is in the Sissach district and the Basel-Landschaft canton.

The population history of Rünenberg is: 1680 - 173 inhabitants 1743 - 227 inhabitants 1798 - 319 inhabitants 1850 - 516 inhabitants 1860 - 510 inhabitants 1870 - 593 inhabitants 1880 - 594 inhabitants 1888 - 610 inhabitants 1900 - 589 inhabitants 1910 - 588 inhabitants 1920 - 545 inhabitants 1930 - 524 inhabitants 1941 - 498 inhabitants 1950 - 492 inhabitants 1960 - 431 inhabitants 1970 - 434 inhabitants 1980 - 481 inhabitants 1990 - 547 inhabitants 2000 - 705 inhabitants 2021 - 748 inhabitants

Per the 2000 census:
 * 14.6% were Roman Catholic
 * 67.9% were Swiss Reformed Church
 * 0.28% were Christian Catholic Church

Spiritually, Rünenberg has always belonged to the Kilchberg parish. Zeglingen is also part of the parish.

Church Records
Rünenberg is part of the parish of Kilchberg. For church records, see Kilchberg.

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Rünenberg:
 * 1815 (images 228-238)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Rünenberg 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)