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 former municipality of Wintersingen is in the Sissach district and the Aargau 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 Aargau 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)