Buix

Buix (French [ bɥi ], in the local dialect [( æ) bwɛ ]; German book) is a village and a former municipality in the district of Porrentruy in the canton of Jura in Switzerland.

Geography

Buix is located on 383 m above sea level. M., 8 km north- northwest of the district municipal seat Porrentruy (air line). The farming village extends into the Talniederung the Allaine in the northern Ajoie ( German Elsgau ), near the border with France.

The area of ​​8.2 km ² large former municipal area comprises the central part of the 300 to 400 m wide through by the Allaine Talniederung, in the case of the southwest Buix the Arroyo Grande La Valle opens. On both sides of Allaine Valley reaches the community area on the partially wooded heights of the Jura, in the north to Mont Renaud (506 m above sea level. M. ), in the southwest on the RecET and New Bois ( 543 m above sea level. M. the highest elevation of the community ) and to the south on the Sollery (526 m above sea level. M. ). From the municipality surface 1997 6 % came from settlements, 50 % of forest and woody plants and 44% to agriculture.

To Buix include the north subsequent residential district Sous les Cantons, the. Tafeljura on the plateau south of the New Bois to 511 m above sea M. lying hamlet Le Maira as well as several individual farms. Neighboring communities of Buix were Boncourt in the north, the French Courcelles in the northeast, Montignez in the east, in the southeast Courtemaîche, Bure in the south and Villars -le- Sec ( also in France ) to the west.

Demographics

Source: Historical Dictionary of Switzerland

With 462 inhabitants ( end of 2007) Buix was one of the smaller communities of the Canton of Jura. Of the 95.6 % inhabitants are French-speaking, Spanish-speaking 2.2 % and 1.1 % in German (as of 2000). The population of Buix amounted in 1850 to 453 residents in 1900 to 561 inhabitants. Since 1970 (617 inhabitants) a significant decline in population was recorded.

Economy

Buix is still agricultural. At one optimally exposed to sunlight slopes of Allainetals southeast of Buix vines are planted since 1988 again. Outside the agricultural sector, there are few jobs in the village. Many workers ( over 60 %) are therefore commuters and work primarily in Boncourt or in the region Porrentruy.

Traffic

The former municipality is situated on the main road 6 of Porrentruy via Boncourt to Belfort and Montbéliard in France. The A16 motorway to be 2015 connected to both the Swiss national road network as well as with the French motorway network, is expected in 2012 the municipality cross to the west and relieve Buix from the rain today through traffic. On September 23, 1872, the railway Porrentruy - dent was opened with a station in Buix by the PD.

History

The village appears for the first time in 1136 as a bus in the documents. The village name is derived from the Latin word buxus boxwood ' due, this comes in the surrounding forests are common. The territory was inhabited in Roman times, which could be detected due to the discoveries of the remains of a Roman estate.

Buix told the eventful history of the Ajoie who first came to the Prince-Bishopric of Basel in 1271. The municipal area had both the convent and the monastery Bellelay Lucelle property. The village was under from the 16th to the 18th century, the Meier office Bure. Between 1793 and 1815 Buix 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. The municipality was merged with effect from 1 January 2009 Courtemaîche and Montignez the new community Basse- Allaine.

Attractions

In the village center is the built in 1854 in the style of the late Neoclassicism parish church of Saint -Maurice, whose tower dates from the earlier building from the Middle Ages. The hamlet of Le Maira has preserved typical farmhouses dating from the mid-19th century. Here is the chapel of Saint -Joseph, which was built in 1870. Another chapel, Notre -Dame-du -Sacré - Coeur ( in 1892 ), is in Valoin.