Giebenach, Basel-Landschaft, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Giebenach, 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 Giebenach is in the district of Liestal in the canton of Basel-Landschaft in Switzerland. It is situated at the junction of the Violen and Arisdorfer streams to the south-east of Augst. It includes the haufendorf village (an irregular, unplanned and quite closely packed village, built around a central square) of Giebenach.

Giebenach (as of 2009) has an area of 1.34 km² (0.52 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 57.5% - agricultural purposes
 * 17.9% - forested
 * 24.6% - settled (buildings or roads)

History
In 1246, Giebenach was first mentioned by the name of in villa Gibenacho.

The population history of Giebenach is: 1850 - 214 inhabitants 1860 - 231 inhabitants 1870 - 239 inhabitants 1880 - 241 inhabitants 1888 - 198 inhabitants 1900 - 237 inhabitants 1910 - 225 inhabitants 1920 - 233 inhabitants 1930 - 212 inhabitants 1941 - 188 inhabitants 1950 - 169 inhabitants 1960 - 180 inhabitants 1970 - 167 inhabitants 1980 - 370 inhabitants 1990 - 627 inhabitants 2000 - 798 inhabitants 2021 - 1,113 inhabitants

Per the 2000 census:
 * 26.8% belonged to the Roman Catholic Church
 * 49.5% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church
 * 0.75% belonged to the Christian Catholic Church
 * 3.13% belonged to another Christian church
 * 0.63% belonged to the Jewish faith
 * 1.00% belonged to the Islamic faith

Originally, Giebenach belonged to Kaiseraugst. From the Reformation in 1529, it formed a church with Arisdorf and Hersberg.

Church Records
Giebenach belongs to the parish of Arisdorf. For church records, see Arisdorf.

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Giebenach:
 * 1815 (images 380-385)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Giebenach 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)