Oltingen Parish, Basel-Landschaft, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Oltingen 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 Oltingen is in the Sissach district and the Basel-Landschaft canton. It is located at the foot of the old road over the Schafmatt pass.

Oltingen (as of 2009) has an area of 7.18 km² (2.77 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 59.9% - agricultural purposes
 * 33.8% - forested
 * 5.8% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * 0.3% - non-productive

History
In 1244, Oltingen was first mentioned by the name of Oltingen. Oltingen is in the Sissach district and the Basel-Landschaft canton.

The population history of Oltingen is: 1850 - 563 inhabitants 1860 - 544 inhabitants 1870 - 525 inhabitants 1880 - 518 inhabitants 1888 - 522 inhabitants 1900 - 469 inhabitants 1910 - 450 inhabitants 1920 - 483 inhabitants 1930 - 429 inhabitants 1941 - 440 inhabitants 1950 - 437 inhabitants 1960 - 410 inhabitants 1970 - 329 inhabitants 1980 - 327 inhabitants 1990 - 345 inhabitants 2000 - 405 inhabitants 2021 - 511 inhabitants

Per the 2000 census:
 * 7.7% were Roman Catholic
 * 74.1% were Swiss Reformed Church
 * 0.49% were Christian Catholic Church
 * 0.49% were Other Christian Church

In 1474, the Church of St. Niklaus was built. In 1852, the church was enlarged. In 1528, the Reformation was adopted and the patronage pased to Basel. The parish of Oltingen includes the villages of Wenslingen and Anwil.

Church Records
The parish, first mentioned in 1296, became Reformed in 1528. It includes the municipalities of Anwil and Wenslingen. Parish records for Oltingen are available online from the Basel-Landschaft State Archive. The 37 volumes of digitized records include:
 * 1542-1922 Baptisms at Basel-Landschaft State Archive - partially organized by community
 * 1543-1906 Marriages at Basel-Landschaft State Archive - partially organized by community
 * 1543-1899 Burials at Basel-Landschaft State Archive - partially organized by community
 * 1709-1872 Confirmations at Basel-Landschaft State Archive - partially organized by community
 * 1752-1917 Family books at Basel-Landschaft State Archive - organized by community

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Oltingen:
 * 1815 (images 169-179)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Oltingen 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)