Roggenburg, Switzerland

Rye Castle (French rye Bourg ) is a municipality in the district of Laufen in the canton of Basel -Country in Switzerland.

Geography

Rye Castle, the westernmost municipality in the canton, is situated on 566 m above sea level. M. and 8 km north of Delémont, the capital of the canton of Jura (air line). The farming village extends on a north-facing slope above the Lützeltal, in the hills of the northern Jura.

The area of ​​6.7 km ² large municipality area includes a portion of the northern Jura folds. The northern boundary follows the whole length of the La Petite, which also forms the border between Switzerland and France at the same time. From Lützeltal the municipal area extends south to the Rieji ( 693 m above sea level. M. ), the mountain of the village, as well as the hares Schell, the 855 m above sea level. M. figures as the highest point of the municipality. The western border is the evil Bach. The area of Rye Castle is drained by the Luetzel east to the Birs. From the municipality surface 1997 3 % was attributable to settlements, 47 % of forest and woody plants and 50 % to agriculture.

At Rye Castle include the hamlet sawmill (491 m above sea level. M., in Lützeltal ) and the east of evil Bach of houses of Neumühlestrasse (French Moulin -Neuf ) and numerous individual farms. Rogge castle is actually an exclave of the canton of Basel-Land, it is connected only by a point with the rest of the canton area. Neighboring communities of Rye Castle are Pleigne, Ederswiler, Movelier and Soyhières in the canton of Jura, Huggerwald in the Canton of Solothurn and Kiffis in France.

Population

With 285 inhabitants ( Error: Invalid time ) Rye Castle is one of the smallest municipalities in the canton of Basel-Landschaft. Of the residents 94.0 % are German, 3.0% French-speaking and Italian-speaking 0.4 % (as of 2000).

Economy

The community is still predominantly agricultural. There are few jobs outside the agricultural sector in the village. Many workers ( over 60 %) are therefore commuters. Every year is Roggenburg venue of an international motocross race.

Traffic

The community is located far away from the major thoroughfares. The main access is from the street through the Lützeltal that leads, however, over French territory. Rye Castle is one hand tied by a postal car course of running, on the other hand by a Delémont via Movelier to public transport.

History

The municipality's territory remains of a Roman watch tower and coins were found dating from Roman times. His first mention of the village is 1207 Rokinberc. The name derives from the Latin word rogus ( pyre pyre ). Rye Castle belonged to the Counts of Thierstein 1454 and went over to the Prince-Bishopric of Basel. The plague was looking Rye Castle in the 17th century home so that a large part of the population became extinct. German -speaking inhabitants were then to Rye Castle and replace the French language. Between 1793 and 1815 it belonged to France and was initially part of the Département du Mont- Terrible, associated from 1800 with the Department of Haut -Rhin. By the decision of the Congress of Vienna in 1815 the place came to the Canton Berne District Delémont.

As a German -speaking congregation to Rye Castle spoke in the Juraplebisziten of each against the creation of the canton of Jura. Because rye castle was a border village in the district Delémont, it came to enjoy the self-determination of the Canton of membership in contrast to the neighboring municipality Ederswiler. The residents voted on September 7, 1975 to remain in the Canton of Bern, and the congregation drew 1976 for the district of Laufen, which formed a Bernese exclave since the founding of the Canton of Jura on January 1, 1979.

Also in the referendums on the accession of the district Running to the Canton of Basel -Landschaft 1983 and 1989 Rye Castle was to remain part of the canton of Bern, but was relatively scarce outvoted in the second vote from the rest of the district. During the conversion process Rye Castle called 1992 again the Bern cantonal affiliation. But there was provided in the connection modalities no self -determination of the individual congregations, took place on 1 January 1994, the conversion to the canton of Basel -Landschaft.

Coat of arms

Origin and meaning are unknown. The coat of arms appears at the beginning of the 20th century and is believed in 1944 by the community. It is emblazoned as follows: "In silver on a green Dreienberg an upright black ram with red horns and claws. "

Attractions

Since the 12th century there is a church in Rye Castle. The present parish church of St. Martin was built in 1635 in late Gothic style and Baroque style in the 18th century. Belongs to the parish of Rye Castle even today the Jurassic Ederswiler.