Courtemaîche

Courtemaîche (French [ kuʀtəmɛʃ ], in the local dialect [(a) kwɛʧmɛ ː ʧ ] ) is a village and a former municipality in the district of Porrentruy in the canton of Jura in Switzerland.

Geography

Courtemaîche is located on 398 m above sea level. Level, 5 km north- northwest of the district municipal seat Porrentruy (air line). The village is on the western edge of the valley increased slightly the Allaine, in Ajoie ( German Elsgau ).

The area of ​​8.9 km ² large former municipal area comprises the central part of the up to 700 m wide Talniederung the Allaine which is sunk into the Tabular Jura plateaus Ajoie. In the east the area extends to the ridge ( at Les Moncovets 527 meters above sea level. M. ) between the Allaine and Coeuvatte which is consisted mainly by forest. To the west, the municipality's area extended to the height of Bure and reached on the Tcherteau 612 m above sea level. M. the highest point of Courtemaîche. From this height, several small valleys open towards Allaine. From the municipality surface 1997 8 % were settlements, 52 % of forest and shrubs, 38% to agriculture and about 2% was unproductive land, which belongs to the place of arms of Bure.

To Courtemaîche include the left of the Allaine lying houses of the hamlet Grandgourt ( 389 m above sea level. M. ) and several individual farms. Neighboring communities of Courtemaîche were Bure, Buix, Montignez, Damphreux, Coeuve and Courchavon.

Population

With 630 inhabitants ( end of 2007) Courtemaîche belongs to the medium-sized municipalities in the canton of Jura. Of the 93.7% inhabitants are French-speaking, German-speaking 5.1 % and 0.8 % portugiesischsprachig (as of 2000). The population of Courtemaîche amounted in 1850 to 426 residents in 1900 to 680 inhabitants. After peaking in 1910 with 779 residents overall declining trend was recorded in the 20th century.

Economy

Courtemaîche is still agricultural. Since the mid-20th century, some residential areas have been built. Outside of agriculture in our local small businesses ( transmission assembly, Uhrengehäuseschleiferei ) some jobs. But many of the working commuters and work in Porrentruy or in Boncourt.

Traffic

Courtemaîche is located on the busy busy main road of Porrentruy via the border crossing Boncourt to Belfort Montbéliard or in France. If it seems likely the A16 motorway, which is to be connected by 2015 both to the Swiss national road network as well as to the French motorway network, will be opened by Boncourt to Porrentruy in 2012, the village should be relieved of through traffic. On September 23, 1872, the railway Porrentruy - dent was opened with a station in Courtemaîche by the PD. But this is a bit outside of the village on the other side of the valley of the Allaine. From Courtemaîche a railway branch line for military transports to Plaza de Armas of Bure was built, which opened on 19 March 1968.

History

The area of the Allaine Valley, which has numerous large and small caves, was already inhabited during the Neolithic and into the Iron Age. Traces of settlements from this period were found in the caves of La Bame at Courtemaîche.

The village is mentioned several times in the 12th century as Cordemasche / Cordomache / Cordemacha / Cordomasge. The place name is probably a composite of rom corte, court, manor, hamlet 'and a Germanic personal name * Domaska ​​. Courtemaîche told the eventful history of the Ajoie who first came to the Prince-Bishopric of Basel in 1271. The village was under from the 16th to the 18th century, the Meier office Bure. During the Thirty Years' War, the village was pillaged. Between 1793 and 1815 Courtemaîche 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 Buix and Montignez the new community Basse- Allaine.

Attractions

The parish church of Saint- Timothée -et -Saint -Symphorien in 1855 rebuilt in neoclassical style on the site of an earlier building dating from 1627. In the village the typical farms from the 19th century form an architectural unit. The former estate of the de Couthenans family came in 1530. North of the village is the late Gothic chapel of Saint- Symphorien.