Brislach Parish, Basel-Landschaft, Switzerland Genealogy

Guide to Brislach 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 Brislach is in the district of Laufen and the canton of Basel-Landschaft in Switzerland. It includes the linear village of Brislach on the Birstal-Passwang road.

Brislach (as of 2009) has an area of 9.39 km² (3.63 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 52.8% - agricultural purposes
 * 37.8% - forested
 * 8.5% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * 0.6% - non-productive (either rivers or lakes)

History
In 1144, Brislach was first mentioned by the name of Brislacho.

The population history of Brislach is: 1630 - 205 inhabitants 1771 - 375 inhabitants 1850 - 442 inhabitants 1860 - 413 inhabitants 1870 - 401 inhabitants 1880 - 402 inhabitants 1888 - 369 inhabitants 1900 - 424 inhabitants 1910 - 478 inhabitants 1920 - 451 inhabitants 1930 - 507 inhabitants 1941 - 507 inhabitants 1950 - 615 inhabitants 1960 - 722 inhabitants 1970 - 829 inhabitants 1980 - 864 inhabitants 1990 - 1062 inhabitants 2000 - 1392 inhabitants 2021 - 1,722 inhabitants

Per the 2000 census:
 * 70.6% belonged to the Roman Catholic Church
 * 15.1% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church
 * 0.14% belonged to an Orthodox church
 * 1.36% belonged to another Christian church
 * 1.65% belonged to the Islamic faith

Brislach originally was part of the parish of Rohr. It adopted the Reformation in 1529-80. In 1803, Brislach became an independent parish and constructed the Church of St. Peter. From 1874 to 1935, Brislach parish was united with Wahlen.

Church Records
Brislach was part of the Catholic parish of Rohr; the area was briefly Protestant between 1529-1580. In 1803, Brislach became an independent parish. See Rohr for earlier records.

Parish records for Brislach are available online from the Basel-Landschaft State Archive. The 3 volumes of digitized records include:


 * 1806-1875 Baptisms at Basel-Landschaft State Archive
 * 1806-1875 Marriages at Basel-Landschaft State Archive
 * 1806-1875 Burials at Basel-Landschaft State Archive
 * 1806-1864 Confirmations at Basel-Landschaft State Archive

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

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Brislach 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)