Bressaucourt

Bressaucourt was a municipality in the district of Porrentruy in the canton of Jura in Switzerland. On January 1, 2013, it merged with Fontenais.

Geography

Bressaucourt is located on 536 m above sea level. M., 4 km south-west of the district municipal seat Porrentruy (air line). The former street line village extends on a knoll on the northern slope of the Jura range Lomont in Ajoie ( German Elsgau ), near the border with France.

The area of ​​9.5 km ² large municipality area comprises the north, the Talniederung the village of Bach's Bressaucourt and the gently rising slope of Dos Chalembert and Echaux. The western boundary is the dry valley of Combe Vaillay. In the south, the area reaches the densely forested northern slope of the Lomont in the Ajoie northern chain of the Jura Mountains, and reaches up to 910 m above sea level with Les Laives. M. the highest elevation of the community. Bressaucourt situated in the basin of the Allaine. From the municipality surface 1997 4 % related to settlements, 54 % of forest and woody plants and 42% to agriculture.

To Bressaucourt include several individual farms. Neighboring communities of Bressaucourt are Haute- Ajoie, Courtedoux, Porrentruy, Fontenais and Clos du Doubs in the Canton of Jura and Montancy in neighboring France.

Population

With 426 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012) Bressaucourt one of the smaller municipalities in the canton of Jura. Of the 89.5% inhabitants are French-speaking, German-speaking 7.8 % and 0.5 % Italian-speaking (as of 2000). The population of Bressaucourt amounted in 1850 to 410 residents in 1900 to 506 inhabitants. During the 20th century to 1980 (350 inhabitants), a declining trend was recorded. Since then, the population increased again slightly.

Economy

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

Traffic

The community is located off the major thoroughfares and is only accessible by a spur road from Porrentruy ago. In 2005, the exit Porrentruy - ouest on the A16 motorway was connected to this road, which is to be connected to both the 2015 Swiss national road network as well as with the French motorway network. By bus to Porrentruy Bressaucourt is connected to public transport. On 1 July 2011, the regional airport Bressaucourt opened with a 800 meter runway, which replaces the adjacent airfield Porrentruy.

History

The cave Bame aux Pirotas was already inhabited in the La Tène period and in the late Bronze Age. First mention is the village in 1139 as Bersalcurt in a document by Pope Innocent II, who confirmed to the monastery of Saint- Ursanne land in Bressaucourt. Later the names Bresacorth ( 1177 ), Brusacort ( 1290 ), Brisaucourt ( 1312), Prisacourt ( 1492) and Brisalcourt appear. The origin of the name is disputed, due either to the Germanic personal name Brisolf or the Burgundian name Bersiwald.

Bressaucourt told the eventful history of the Ajoie who first came to the Prince-Bishopric of Basel in 1271. It was under the 16th and 18th century the Meier office Chevenez. Between 1793 and 1815 Bressaucourt 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, the place came in 1815 to the canton of Bern and on 1 January 1979 at the newly founded Canton Jura.

Attractions

The small village is dominated by the imposing neo-Romanesque building of the parish church of Saint- Etienne, built in 1893-94 in line with the parish church of Notre- Dame d' Auteuil.

Pictures of Bressaucourt

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