Duggingen Parish, Basel-Landschaft, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Duggingen 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 Duggingen is in the district of Laufen in the canton of Basel-Landschaft in Switzerland. It is situated on a terrace above the last ravine of the Birs valley. It includes the linear village of Duggingen.

Duggingen (as of 2009) has an area of 5.87 km² (2.27 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 29.0% - agricultural purposes
 * 57.4% - forested
 * 12.8% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * 1.4% - non-productive (either rivers or lakes)

History
Around 1330, Duggingen was first mentioned by the name of Tuggingen.

The population history of Duggingen is: 1770 - 201 inhabitants 1831 - 268 inhabitants 1850 - 341 inhabitants 1860 - 316 inhabitants 1870 - 419 inhabitants 1880 - 444 inhabitants 1888 - 487 inhabitants 1900 - 539 inhabitants 1910 - 479 inhabitants 1920 - 501 inhabitants 1930 - 534 inhabitants 1941 - 507 inhabitants 1950 - 594 inhabitants 1960 - 620 inhabitants 1970 - 738 inhabitants 1980 - 757 inhabitants 1990 - 868 inhabitants 2000 - 1,162 inhabitants 2021 - 1,550 inhabitants

Per the 2000 census:
 * 43.2% belonged to the Roman Catholic Church
 * 27.1% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church
 * 0.34% belonged to the Christian Catholic Church
 * 4.04% belonged to another Christian church
 * 0.34% belonged to the Jewish faith
 * 0.77% belonged to the Islamic faith

A chapel was constructed in 1735 and the church of Saint-Jean-Baptiste in 1837. Duggingen and Grellingen belonged, until in 1845, to the Catholic parish of Pfeffingen.

Church Records
Duggingen belonged to the parish of Pfeffingen until 1837, when it became an independent parish. For earlier records, see Pfeffingen.

Parish records for Duggingen are available online from the Basel-Landschaft State Archive. The 27 volumes of digitized records include:
 * 1837-1875 Baptisms at Basel-Landschaft State Archive
 * 1836-1875 Marriages at Basel-Landschaft State Archive
 * 1837-1875 Burials at Basel-Landschaft State Archive

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

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Duggingen 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)