Waldenburg Parish, Basel-Landschaft, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Waldenburg 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 Waldenburg is in the Waldenburg district and the Basel-Landschaft canton. Waldenburg is the capital of the Waldenburg district. It is located in a rocky defile in the Waldenburg valley, on the road to the Haut-Hauenstein pass. The municipality of Waldenburg includes the village of Waldenburg and fourteen estates in the area.

Waldenburg (as of 2009) has an area of 8.3 km² (3.2 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 31.4% - agricultural purposes
 * 62.4% - forested
 * 5.8% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * 0.1% - non-productive

History
In 1244, Waldenburg was first mentioned by the name of Waldinburch and Waldenburch. Waldenburg is in the Waldenburg district and the Basel-Landschaft canton.

The population history of Waldenburg is: 1497 - 107 inhabitants 1698 - 325 inhabitants 1798 - 384 inhabitants 1850 - 756 inhabitants 1860 - 908 inhabitants 1870 - 872 inhabitants 1880 - 870 inhabitants 1888 - 981 inhabitants 1900 - 1,055 inhabitants 1910 - 1,027 inhabitants 1920 - 1,028 inhabitants 1930 - 1,038 inhabitants 1941 - 1,079 inhabitants 1950 - 1,224 inhabitants 1960 - 1,284 inhabitants 1970 - 1,449 inhabitants 1980 - 1,188 inhabitants 1990 - 1,208 inhabitants 2000 - 1,328 inhabitants 2021 - 1,124 inhabitants

Per the 2000 census:
 * 20.7% were Roman Catholic
 * 46.2% were Swiss Reformed Church
 * 2.03% were Orthodox Church
 * 0.83% were Other Christian Church

Spiritually, Waldenburg belonged to the parish of Saint-Pierre d'Onoldswil. In 1834, the grenette was converted into a church.

Church Records
Waldenburg became Reformed during the 1520s. It includes the municipalities of Liedertswil, Niederdorf, and Oberdorf. It also included the municipality of Titterten until 1765. Parish records for Waldenburg are available online from the Basel-Landschaft State Archive. The 63 volumes of digitized records include:
 * 1660-1912 Baptisms at Basel-Landschaft State Archive - organized by location
 * 1660-1941 Marriages at Basel-Landschaft State Archive - with gaps; organized by location
 * 1708-1933 Burials at Basel-Landschaft State Archive - with gaps; organized by location
 * 1660-1929 Confirmations at Basel-Landschaft State Archive
 * 1859-1883 Family books at Basel-Landschaft State Archive - organized by location

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Waldenburg:
 * 1815 (images 521-537)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Waldenburg 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)