Châtillon, Canton of Jura
Châtillon is a municipality in the district Delémont the canton of Jura in Switzerland. The former German Kastel name is no longer used today.
Geography
Châtillon is situated at 523 m above sea level. M., 4 km south of the cantonal capital of Delémont ( straight line ). The former street line village extends east of the creek Le Bie on a sloping north slope on the southern edge of the Dels Berger basin.
The area of 5.3 km ² large municipality area has only a small share of the intensively farmed level of Dels Berger basin. It ranges from Montchaibeux in the north, a 627 m high, isolated in the basin standing forest hill, down to the south adjacent Jura mountains of Le Mont, which belongs to the system of Mont- Raimeux chain. Over the crest of this chain, the cantonal border between the Jura and Bern runs. The highest point of the municipality lies at 1,129 m above sea level. M. on the Felskrete the Côte des Porcs. On the northern slope of the Jura chain is located in the municipality a typical Ausräumungskessel ( Halbklus ), flanked by two mountain leftover bodies from hard rock strata. The village stream Bie drains the area to Sorne. From the municipality surface 1997 accounted for 5% of settlements, 52 % of forest and shrubs, 42 % to agriculture and less than 1 % was unproductive land.
At Châtillon include several individual farms. Neighboring communities of Châtillon are Soulce, Courtetelle, Rossemaison, Courrendlin and Vellerat in the Canton of Jura and Roches and Moutier in the Canton of Bern.
Population
With 452 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012) Châtillon is one of the smaller communities of the Canton of Jura. Of the 96.3 % inhabitants are French-speaking, German-speaking 2.7 % and 0.5 % Italian-speaking (as of 2000). The population of Châtillon amounted in 1850 to 193 residents in 1900 to 221 inhabitants. During the 20th century, a clearly increasing trend was recorded in total.
Economy
The community is still heavily agricultural, but has developed in the second half of the 20th century to the living village. There are few jobs outside the agricultural sector in the village. Many workers ( about 70 %) are therefore commuters and work mainly in the region Delémont.
Traffic
Châtillon is situated away from thoroughfares, but it still has a pretty good transport links. A bus service operates from the railway station, 4 km away from Delémont Châtillon. The connection to the 1998, this section of the A16 motorway from Delémont to Porrentruy to be connected by 2015 both to the Swiss national road network as well as to the French motorway network is also within a long journey just 4 km away.
History
The village is as Chastellun 1148 in a document by Pope Eugene III. first mentioned. Châtillon belonged to the provost Moutier- Grandval and retained even after the Reformation, the Catholic faith at. From 1797 to 1815 it 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 to the district of Moutier. The residents of Châtillon voted in the Juraplebisziten always for the creation of the Canton of Jura. As a border town in the district Moutier Châtillon decided in the referendum of September 7, 1975 for the Canton of Jura, came 1976 on the District Delémont and came up with this on 1 January 1979 at the newly founded Canton Jura.
Attractions
Since the Middle Ages belonged to Châtillon parish Courrendlin. 1817, the Chapel of the Assumption was built in the village; it contains a rich interior was renovated in 1985. Outside the resort there is a more than 1000 year old oak tree, the Chêne des Bosses.
As a special customs of Châtillon is the Easter tradition Les Caquiats to mention a children's parade with buzz.