Liedertswil, Basel-Landschaft, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Liedertswil, 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 Liedertswil (Swiss German: Tschoppehof) is in the Waldenburg district and the Basel-Landschaft canton. It is located at the entrance to the Waldenburger valley into the Reigoldswiler valley.

Liedertswil (as of 2009) has an area of 1.94 km² (0.75 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 37.1% - agricultural purposes
 * 58.2% - forested
 * 5.2% - settled (buildings or roads)

History
In 1194, Liedertswil was first mentioned by the name of Liedirwilre. Liedertswil is in the Waldenburg district and the Basel-Landschaft canton.

The population history of Liedertswil is: 1680 - 63 inhabitants 1834 - 122 inhabitants 1850 - 153 inhabitants 1860 - 138 inhabitants 1870 - 147 inhabitants 1880 - 134 inhabitants 1888 - 137 inhabitants 1900 - 133 inhabitants 1910 - 110 inhabitants 1920 - 103 inhabitants 1930 - 97 inhabitants 1941 - 83 inhabitants 1950 - 86 inhabitants 1960 - 99 inhabitants 1970 - 95 inhabitants 1980 - 134 inhabitants 1990 - 143 inhabitants 2000 - 151 inhabitants 2021 - 154 inhabitants

Per the 2000 census:
 * 9.3% were Roman Catholic
 * 74.8% were Swiss Reformed Church

Spiritually, Liedertswil has always belonged to the Saint-Pierre parish located in the Valley of Waldenburg.

Church Records
Liedertswil belongs to the parish of Waldenburg. For church records, see Waldenburg.

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Liedertswil:
 * 1815 (images 436-439)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Liedertswil 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)