Courrendlin

The " Tour de l' Horloge " in Courrendlin

Courrendlin is a municipality in the district Delémont the canton of Jura in Switzerland. The former German race village name is no longer used today.

Geography

Courrendlin is located on 436 m above sea level. M., 4 km south-east from the cantonal capital Delémont ( straight line ). The scattered village extends on both sides of the Birs, at the output of the narrow valley of Choindez on the southern edge of the basin Dels Berger, a broad valley in the Jura folds. The area of ​​11.1 km ² large municipality area includes a section in the central part of the intensively farmed level of Dels Berger basin. The entire northern part of the municipal area is occupied by the Plaine de Bellevie. In the west, the area extends to the Montchaibeux ( 627 m above sea level. M. ), one isolated in Delémont standing forest hills. In the south, the municipality covers the gorge of Choindez, a typical, worked out of the Birs Jura transverse valley with striking rock walls, which belongs to the system of the Gorges de Moutier. The gorge is flanked to the east by the Rochers du Midi ( 870 m above sea level. M. ) on the Montchemin, on the west by a steep, densely forested mountain in the Forêt de la Cendre (up to 1,000 m above sea level. M. ). This mountain is part of the fold of the Jura chain of Le Mont very south of the municipality extends to the projecting vertically Kalkrippe Roche Saint -Jean. From the municipality surface 1997 13 % came from settlements, 41 % of forest and shrubs, 45 % to agriculture and slightly more than 1% was unproductive land.

To Courrendlin include the industrial estate Choindez (460 m above sea level. M. ) in the gorge of Choindez as well as several individual farms. Neighboring communities of Courrendlin are Vellerat, Châtillon, Rossemaison, Delémont, Courroux and Rebeuvelier in the Canton of Jura and Roches in Canton Bern.

Population

With 2595 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012) Courrendlin one of the great municipalities in the canton of Jura. Of the 88.4 % inhabitants are French-speaking, German-speaking 5.2 % and 1.8 % Italian-speaking (as of 2000). The population of Courrendlin has increased in the second half of the 19th century by almost threefold. After a preliminary peak around 1970, a decline of almost 10 % was recorded during the economic crisis of the 1970s. Since then, there were only small population fluctuations.

Economy

Courrendlin has mid-19th century developed from a farming village to an industrial community. A major employer in the village is the iron work of Von Roll, which was founded in 1843 in Choindez. More jobs are available in the areas of mechanical engineering and plastics production. North of the village in the plane there is a larger gravel mining area, and the exit of the gorge of the Jura limestone is mined in Choindez an important quarry.

Traffic

The community is conveniently moderately well developed. It lies on the busy traffic thoroughfare of Delémont to Moutier. The planned highway or motorway A16, which is to be connected by 2015 both to the Swiss national road network as well as to the French motorway network, is driving around the village and the gorge of Choindez within a 3 km long tunnel to the east. On December 16, 1876, the railway line was Delémont - Moutier opened with a station in Courrendlin, which, however, is now closed.

History

First mention is the place in the year 866 as Rendelana Corte. He was already in the 9th century to the basic property of the Provost Moutier- Grandval. 1179 appeared the first time the present name Courrendlin, in the following period but were also the names Corrandlain or Rellendorf ( 1184 ), the German name race village ( 1285), Corrandelinim ( 1438 ) and Curraldin, Correndlin ( 1461 ) before.

Courrendlin also retained after the Reformation in the Catholic faith. 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 Courrendlin voted in the Juraplebisziten always for the creation of the Canton of Jura. As a border town in the district Moutier Courrendlin decided in the referendum of September 7, 1975 for the Canton of Jura, entered 1976 in the District Delémont over and came up with this on 1 January 1979 at the newly founded Canton Jura.

Attractions

The oldest church in the district Courrendlin is the chapel of Saint-Barthélemy, which stands outside the village. It dates from the 9th century and was rebuilt several times and renovated in 1977. The parish church of Saint- Germain- et- Randoald ( named after two martyrs of the region) was built 1755-58. It contains one of the most beautiful baroque interior of the canton of Jura. In 1923 the tower was severely damaged by a hurricane. For parish Courrendlin also included Rossemaison, Châtillon and Vellerat. In the village center is the Tour de l' Horloge, a late Gothic prison and archive tower with stepped gables, which was built in 1697.