Buus Parish, Basel-Landschaft, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Buus 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 Buus is in the district of Sissach in the canton of Basel-Landschaft in Switzerland. It is situated in a depression on the north foot of Farnsberg mountain. It includes the haufendorf village (an irregular, unplanned and quite closely packed village, built around a central square) of Buus.

Buus (as of 2009) has an area of 8.85 km² (3.42 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 64.5% - agricultural purposes
 * 28.5% - forested
 * 7.2% - settled (buildings or roads)

History
In 1273, Buus was first mentioned by the name of Bus.

The population history of Buus is: 1497 - 57 inhabitants 1699 - 360 inhabitants 1774 - 385 inhabitants 1850 - 613 inhabitants 1860 - 647 inhabitants 1870 - 683 inhabitants 1880 - 600 inhabitants 1888 - 585 inhabitants 1900 - 611 inhabitants 1910 - 711 inhabitants 1920 - 725 inhabitants 1930 - 674 inhabitants 1941 - 635 inhabitants 1950 - 676 inhabitants 1960 - 674 inhabitants 1970 - 666 inhabitants 1980 - 723 inhabitants 1990 - 731 inhabitants 2000 - 909 inhabitants 2021 - 1,110 inhabitants

Per the 2000 census:
 * 13.4% belonged to the Roman Catholic Church
 * 69.6% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church
 * 0.55% belonged to an Orthodox church
 * 1.10% belonged to the Christian Catholic Church
 * 1.10% belonged to another Christian church
 * 2.53% belonged to the Islamic faith

The Saint-Michel church, attested in 1273, depended on an estate which belonged, with the right of patronage, to the commandery of the Teutonic knights of Beuggen, from the 14th century to 1805. The parish of Buus consisted of Hemmiken and Ormalingen until the Reformation (1529) and Maisprach from 1535 to 1939.

Church Records
The parish church of St. Michael in Buus was first mentioned in 1273. The area became Reformed in 1529. The parish included the municipality of Maisprach until 1935; Hemmiken was part of the parish until 1741.

Parish records for Buus are available online from the Basel-Landschaft State Archive. The 21 volumes of digitized records include:
 * 1559-1908 Baptisms at Basel-Landschaft State Archive
 * 1593-1875 Marriages at Basel-Landschaft State Archive - with gaps
 * 1642-1890 Baptisms at Basel-Landschaft State Archive - with gaps
 * 1809-1930 Family books at Basel-Landschaft State Archive - organized by community

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Buus:
 * 1815 (images 346-359)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Buus 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)