Courtedoux

Courtedoux is a municipality in the district of Porrentruy in the canton of Jura in Switzerland. The former German name Ludolf village is no longer used today.

Geography

Courtedoux situated at 470 meters above sea level. M., 2.5 km west-southwest of the district municipal seat Porrentruy (air line). The village is located on a terrace north of Creugenat Valley, in the Ajoie ( German Elsgau ), at the northern foot of the Jura mountains.

The area of 8.1 km ² large municipality territory comprises the southern portion of the wide part of the valley Trockentals of Creux- Genat. The Creugenat is a karst spring which is in the field of Chevenez and only about four to five times per year pours water on average. In the northwest the municipality the gently sloping and partly wooded slope reaches up to the Tabular Jura plateau of Bure. Here is located on the skin du Mont 630 m above sea level. M. the highest point of Courtedoux. From the municipality surface 1997 7 % was attributable to settlements, 39 % of forest and woody plants and 54% to agriculture.

To Courtedoux include several individual farms. Neighboring communities Courtedoux are Porrentruy, Bressaucourt, Chevenez and Bure.

Population

With 740 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012) Courtedoux belongs to the medium-sized municipalities in the canton of Jura. Of the 95.9 % inhabitants are French-speaking, German-speaking 2.4 % and 0.5 % portugiesischsprachig (as of 2000). The population of Courtedoux amounted in 1850 to 499 residents in 1900 to 759 inhabitants. During the 20th century, the population fluctuated always in the range 590-720 people.

Economy

Courtedoux, thanks to the fertile soil in the area dominated by agriculture today. Since the mid-20th century, the village has gradually changed to residential. Outside agriculture, there are some jobs in the local small businesses. But many of the working commuters and work in the near Porrentruy.

Traffic

The community is conveniently comparatively quite well developed. By Creugenat valley the main road leading from Porrentruy to Montbéliard or Pont -de- Roide in France. Through the municipal area is expected to extend the A16 motorway from 2012, which is to be connected by 2015 both to the Swiss national road network as well as to the French motorway network. Courtedoux is served by the postal car price of Porrentruy to Damvant to public transport. 1946 was built the airfield Porrentruy in the valley on the border area of Courtedoux and Porrentruy. He was transferred as airfield Bressaucourt on the amount Echaux at Bressaucourt.

History

The place was already called 814 as Curtis Udulphi owned by the monastery of Saint- Ursanne. The name goes back to the farm of a man with the Germanic names Udulf. 1139 appears the name Curtedul in a document by Pope Innocent II in the 13th century Courtedoux came to the Prince-Bishopric of Basel. From the 16th to the 18th century it was the capital of the eponymous Meier office ( mairie ). During the Thirty Years' War, the village was badly affected. Between 1793 and 1815 Courtedoux 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 -Martin in 1835 newly built. In the village there are several typical farmhouses of the 19th century.

During the preparatory work for the construction of the A16 motorway numerous dinosaur tracks were discovered and exposed at Courtedoux on a limestone slab. These tracks came into being about 150 million years ago when the area on the northern edge of the Tethys Urmittelmeers was populated by dinosaurs.

Gallery

Church of Saint -Martin

School building, community management

Rue du Collège

Dinosaur tracks

Roundabout ( Pruntrut )

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