Asuel
Asuel (French [ azɥɛl ], in the local dialect [ ezɥe ]; German hare Castle ) is a village and a former municipality in the district of Porrentruy in the canton of Jura in Switzerland.
Geography
Asuel is located on 569 m above sea level. M., 11 km east of the district municipal seat Porrentruy (air line). The former street line village extends into a valley and in the south adjacent constriction of Asuel - Bach, in the Baroche, the eastern part of the Ajoie ( German Elsgau ) in the Jura.
The area of 10.1 km ² large former municipal area comprises the northern part of the headwaters of the Asuel Brook, on the west by Chaumont ( 753 m above sea level. M. ), to the east of the heights Grande Roche ( 851 m above sea level. M. ), Le Gy ( 880 m above sea level. M. ) and Les Ordons is surrounded. On the slope of the Ordons is 940 m above sea level. M. reached the highest point of the municipality. To the south, the territory extends over the crest of the Les- Rangiers chain with the heights of Montgremay (939 m above sea level. M. ) and Roche au Vilain (850 m above sea level. M. ) to the valley of the Doubs. About the Pass of Rangiers, which forms an important transition from the cantonal capital Delémont to Porrentruy, the watershed between the basins of the Rhine and Rhone runs. From the municipality surface 1997 accounted for 5% on settlements, 51 % of forest and shrubs and 44% to agriculture.
To Asuel include the hamlet of La Malcôte ( 661 m above sea level. M. ) and Rangiers ( 856 m above sea level. M. ) on the pass road from Rangiers, La Caquerelle (830 m above sea level. M. ) on the crest of Mont- Russelin chain as well as numerous individual farms. Neighboring communities of Asuel were Pleujouse, Fregiécourt, Cornol Montmelon Saint- Ursanne, Boécourt and Bourrignon.
Population
With 186 inhabitants ( end of 2007) Asuel was one of the small communities of the Canton of Jura. Of the 90.7 % inhabitants are French-speaking, German-speaking 7.9 % and 1.4 % Italian-speaking (as of 2000). Since 1870 (then 462 inhabitants), the population of Asuel has halved.
Economy
Asuel is still agricultural. Outside the agricultural sector there are jobs in the local small businesses. Many workers (over 50 %) are, however, commuters and work mainly in the region Porrentruy. On the southern slopes of Chaumont is a large quarry.
Traffic
Asuel is off the major thoroughfares, but is easily accessible by main road either from Les- Rangiers Pass or from Ajoie from. Through a bus line that runs from Porrentruy to Asuel, the village is served by public transport.
History
His first mentioned in 1136 as the village Asuel. The church belonged to the rule Asuel whose castle bunny castle stood since the 11th century on an isolated rocky hill that overlooks the village at 100 meters. 1374 rabbits castle was destroyed on the orders of the Prince Bishop of Basel, but later rebuilt. The family of the lords of Asuel went out to 1480th Asuel under stood from the 16th to the 18th century, the office Meier all. Between 1793 and 1815 belonged Asuel 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, the place came in 1815 to the canton of Bern and on 1 January 1979 at the newly founded Canton Jura. The municipality was merged with effect from 1 January 2009 Charmoille, Fregiécourt, Miécourt and Pleujouse the new municipality of La Baroche.
Gender Hasenburg
The Barons of rabbit castle had its headquarters in Asuel. A descendant of the family of hares castle is Adrian von Bubenberg. This was at the Battle of Murten commander against the Burgundians ( 1476 ).
The Online Family Trees from Hans Ulrich Hasenburg:
Junker Hans Ulrich July Hasenburg, † 9 1386 Battle of Sempach; ∞ Countess Verena von Thierstein † for 1417th
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Junker Hans von Rosenegg; ∞ Joan of rabbit castle.
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Heinrich von Bubenberg † around 1464; ∞ 1420 Anne of Rosenegg, † 1482nd
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Knights of Adrian I. Bubenberg * to 1434 † August 1479; ∞ Countess Jakobea of Aarberg, † 1470th
Attractions
The parish church of Saint- Etienne was built in 1839, which Asuel, which belonged to the parish Charmoille before, was ecclesiastically independent. From the hare castle, which was built in the 11th century by the barons of rabbit castle and abandoned in the 16th century, today is still the ruins to see. At the height of La Caquerelle is a chapel.