Beurnevésin

Beurnevésin

Beurnevésin is a municipality in the district of Porrentruy in the canton of Jura in Switzerland. The former German name Brischwiler is no longer used today.

Geography

Beurnevésin is located on 422 m above sea level. Level, 10 km north- northeast of the district municipal seat Porrentruy (air line). The farming village extends into the Talniederung the creek Vendline in the north of Ajoie ( German Elsgau ).

The area of ​​5.1 km ² large municipality territory, which includes the corrugated Tafeljura Ajoie, which is crossed by the valley of the Vendline. In the north, the area extends to the wooded heights of Les Toyers (512 m above sea level. M. ) and Le Mont, 530 m above sea level. M. the highest elevation of the community. About this height also runs the border between Switzerland and France. The area is drained by the Vendline to Allaine. From the municipality surface 1997 accounted for 5% on settlements, 38 % of forest and shrubs, 56% to agriculture and about 0.5% was unproductive land.

To Beurnevésin include several individual farms. Neighboring communities of Beurnevésin are Damphreux, Damphreux and Bonfol in the Canton of Jura and Pfetterhouse and Réchésy in France.

Population

With 134 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012) Beurnevésin one of the smaller municipalities in the canton of Jura. Of the 83.4 % inhabitants are French-speaking, 15.9 % and 0.6 % German-speaking Italian-speaking (as of 2000). The population of Beurnevésin amounted in 1850 to 347 residents in 1900 to 248 inhabitants. During the 20th century, a declining trend was recorded in total.

Economy

Beurnevésin is still predominantly agricultural. There are few jobs outside the agricultural sector in the village. Many workers (over 50 %) are therefore commuters and work mainly in the region Porrentruy.

Traffic

The community is located off the major thoroughfares in the border region of the northeastern Ajoie, but each has a border crossing with the French neighboring communities. Through a bus line that runs from Porrentruy via Coeuve and Damphreux after Beurnevésin, the village is served by public transport.

History

First mention is Beurnevésin 1270 as Brunnevisin what is interpreted as near a fountain. The village shared the checkered history of the Ajoie, which first came to the Prince-Bishopric of Basel in 1271. It was under the 16th and 18th century the Meier office Coeuve. Between 1793 and 1815 belonged Beurnevésin 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.

Attractions

Above the village is the church of Saint -Jacques, which belonged to the parish Damphreux to 1802. The church has a late Gothic choir with murals that were created in 1500. The present church dates from the ship in 1829.

In the forest of Les Côtes north of the community is the landmark Trois Puissances that identifies the location that the border triangle of Switzerland, France and Germany ( to the Alsace was during this time ) marked from 1871 to 1920 and from 1940 to 1944.