Tenniken Parish, Basel-Landschaft, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Tenniken 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 Tenniken is in the Sissach district and the Basel-Landschaft canton. It is located on the right bank of the Diegtertal.

Tenniken (as of 2009) has an area of 4.66 km² (1.80 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 47.9% - agricultural purposes
 * 41.2% - forested
 * 11.4% - settled (buildings or roads)

History
In 1226, Tenniken was first mentioned. Tenniken is in the Sissach district and the Basel-Landschaft canton.

The population history of Tenniken is: 1699 - 165 inhabitants 1774 - 241 inhabitants 1815 - 291 inhabitants 1850 - 432 inhabitants 1860 - 454 inhabitants 1870 - 440 inhabitants 1880 - 429 inhabitants 1888 - 414 inhabitants 1900 - 425 inhabitants 1910 - 410 inhabitants 1920 - 393 inhabitants 1930 - 386 inhabitants 1941 - 387 inhabitants 1950 - 445 inhabitants 1960 - 447 inhabitants 1970 - 512 inhabitants 1980 - 668 inhabitants 1990 - 828 inhabitants 2000 - 900 inhabitants 2021 - 929 inhabitants

Per the 2000 census:
 * 13.4% were Roman Catholic
 * 64.8% were Swiss Reformed Church
 * 0.22% were Orthodox Church
 * 0.22% were Christian Catholic Church
 * 3.78% were other Christian Church

In 1435, the Church of Our Lady was first mentioned. In 1529, the Tenniken parish was built. In 1830, Zunzgen belonged to the Tenniken parish.

Church Records
Tenniken has been an independent parish since the Reformation in 1529. The municipality of Zunzgen was transferred to Tenniken in 1830.

Parish records for Tenniken are available online from the Basel-Landschaft State Archive. The 37 volumes of digitized records include:
 * 1578-1922 Baptisms at Basel-Landschaft State Archive
 * 1579-1919 Marriages at Basel-Landschaft State Archive- with gaps
 * 1730-1947 Burials at Basel-Landschaft State Archive - with gaps
 * 1766-1889 Confirmations at Basel-Landschaft State Archive - with gaps
 * 1708-1911 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 Tenniken:
 * 1815 (images 512-520)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Tenniken 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)