Tecknau, Basel-Landschaft, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Tecknau, 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 Tecknau is in the Sissach district and the Basel-Landschaft canton.

Tecknau (as of 2009) has an area of 2.35 km² (0.91 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 24.7% - agricultural purposes
 * 58.7% - forested
 * 16.6% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * 1.3% - river or lakes

History
In 1294, Tecknau was first mentioned by the name of Tekenowe. Tecknau is in the Sissach district and the Basel-Landschaft canton.

The population history of Tecknau is: 1497 - 23 inhabitants 1680 - 75 inhabitants 1774 - 96 inhabitants 1850 - 138 inhabitants 1860 - 140 inhabitants 1870 - 173 inhabitants 1880 - 150 inhabitants 1888 - 151 inhabitants 1900 - 139 inhabitants 1910 - 115 inhabitants 1920 - 323 inhabitants 1930 - 352 inhabitants 1941 - 358 inhabitants 1950 - 425 inhabitants 1960 - 525 inhabitants 1970 - 643 inhabitants 1980 - 674 inhabitants 1990 - 652 inhabitants 2000 - 850 inhabitants 2021 - 822 inhabitants

Per the 2000 census:
 * 18.5% were Roman Catholic
 * 48.8% were Swiss Reformed Church
 * 1.76% were Orthodox Church
 * 0.24% were Christian Catholic Church
 * 2.24% were Other Christian Church

Spiritually, Tecknau belonged to the Gelterkinden parish.

Church Records
Tecknau belongs to the parish of Gelterkinden. For church records, see Gelterkinden.

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Tecknau:
 * 1815 (images 273-276)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Tecknau 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)