Bure, Switzerland
Bure is a municipality in the district Pruntrut of the canton of Jura in Switzerland. The former German name Burnen is no longer used today.
Geography
Bure is at 587 m above sea level. Level, 6 km north- west of the district municipal seat Pruntrut (air line). The farming village extends on the Tabular Jura plateau of the western Ajoie ( German Elsgau ), near the border with France.
The area of 13.7 km ² large municipality territory comprises the open, gently undulating plateau of the Ajoie west of Allaine Valley. The highest point of the municipality is located on the skin Mont ( 633 m above sea level. M. ). The west of the municipality take a larger forest areas (Le Rondat and Bois de Bure ). To the north reduces the landscape to the trough of the Trockentals Grande Valley. From the municipality surface 1997 9 % came from settlements, 29 % of forest and shrubs, 52 % to agriculture and almost 10% was unproductive land, which belongs to the place of arms of Bure.
Bure belong to the hamlet of Le Paradis, 618 m above sea level. M. on a hill on the border with France, and a number of individual farms. Neighboring communities of Bure are Basse- Allaine, Courchavon, Porrentruy, Courtedoux, Haute- Ajoie and Fahy in the Canton of Jura and Croix and Villars- le -Sec in neighboring France.
Population
With 677 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012) Bure belongs to the medium-sized municipalities in the canton of Jura. Of the 98.0% inhabitants are French-speaking, German-speaking 1.9 % and 0.1 % Italian-speaking (as of 2000). The population of Bure amounted in 1850 to 798 inhabitants, 1900 to 607 inhabitants. During the 20th century, the population fluctuated always in the range 560-680 people.
Economy
Bure, thanks to the fertile soil in the area is still agricultural. 1968, the army parade ground Bure was opened, decor was hotly debated before. The military systems today offer numerous residents a workplace so that the emigration trend was largely stopped. In addition, there are still some jobs in the local small businesses.
Traffic
The community is located off the main roads. As part of the construction of the A16, to be 2015 connected to both the Swiss national road network as well as with the French motorway network, is expected by 2012 just north of Bure established a connection point. The village itself and the amount of Bure be crossed within a 3 km long tunnel. Bure is connected by a postal car course, which runs from Porrentruy to Fahy to public transport.
While there is a railway line from Courtemaîche after Bure, which connects the place of arms of Bure with the railway line Delémont - dent on this route but can not find a public transportation instead.
History
For the first time the village is mentioned in 1139 as bures in a document by Pope Innocent II, who confirmed the monastery of Saint- Ursanne property in Bure. In the following period the names citizens, Burn ( 1236 ) and Burris ( 1461 ) to appear. Bure shared the checkered history of the Ajoie who first came to the Prince-Bishopric of Basel in 1271. The village was from the 16th to the 18th century capital of the eponymous Meier office ( mairie ). During the Thirty Years' War, the village was affected. Between 1793 and 1815 Bure 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 parish church of Saint -Armand mainly derives from the period 1681 to 1683, but still owns the tower of the former building of 1454th The main altar from 1733 is a work of Breton brothers from Boncourt. South of the church is adjacent to the former rectory, built in 1749. In the hamlet Le Paradis is the built in 1860 and renovated in 1971 votive chapel Notre- Dame-des- Ermites.