Kilchberg Parish, Basel-Landschaft, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Kilchberg 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 Kilchberg is in the district of Sissach in the canton of Basel-Country in Switzerland. It is situated in a high valley along the upper Eital river. It includes the linear village of Kilchberg.

Kilchberg (as of 2009) has an area of 1.59 km² (0.61 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 71.1% - agricultural purposes
 * 20.8% - forested
 * 8.8% - settled (buildings or roads)

History
In 1226, Kilchberg was first mentioned by the name of Chilhperc.

The population history of Kilchberg is: 1497 - 23 inhabitants 1680 - 63 inhabitants 1850 - 100 inhabitants 1860 - 97 inhabitants 1870 - 110 inhabitants 1880 - 133 inhabitants 1888 - 124 inhabitants 1900 - 116 inhabitants 1910 - 127 inhabitants 1920 - 157 inhabitants 1930 - 142 inhabitants 1941 - 126 inhabitants 1950 - 107 inhabitants 1960 - 106 inhabitants 1970 - 90 inhabitants 1980 - 104 inhabitants 1990 - 107 inhabitants 2000 - 109 inhabitants 2021 - 165 inhabitants

Per the 2000 census:
 * 3.7% belonged to the Roman Catholic Church
 * 83.5% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church

Kilchberg is located on the site of a late Frankish estate with its own church (dedicated to Saint Martin), to which the village owes its name. The church is an important neo-Gothic building constructed in 1868 in place of the medieval church. The vicarage was refurbished in the 19th century.

Church Records
The parish of Kilchberg became Protestant during the Reformation. It includes the municipalities of Rünenberg and Zeglingen. Parish records for Kilchberg are available online from the Basel-Landschaft State Archive. The 31 volumes of digitized records include:
 * 1559-1932 Baptisms at Basel-Landschaft State Archive
 * 1559-1951 Marriages at Basel-Landschaft State Archive
 * 1652-1916 Burials at Basel-Landschaft State Archive
 * 1746-1905 Confirmations at Basel-Landschaft State Archive
 * 1739-1918 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 Kilchberg:
 * 1815 (images 150-155)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Kilchberg 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)