Ederswiler

St. Anne's Chapel

Ederswiler is a municipality in the district of Delémont the canton of Jura in Switzerland.

Geography

Ederswiler is located on 553 m above sea level. M., 7 km north from the cantonal capital Delsberg (air line). The farming village located in the northern Jura near the border with France, in a basin at the evil Bach.

The area of ​​3.3 km ² large municipality area includes the valley of the evil stream, which drains north to La Petite (French Lucelle ). In the south and southeast, the municipality (M. 858 m above sea level. ) And rabbits Schell ( M. 870 m above sea level. ) Extends to the rolling hills of a mountain, the western boundary is the outcrop of the Lobbergs ( 771 m above sea level. M. ), and in the north are enthroned above the village, the Jurakalkfelsen the halls ( 693 m above sea level. M. ). From the municipality surface 1997 4 % came from settlements, 42 % of forest and woody plants and 54% to agriculture.

To Ederswiler include several individual farms. Neighboring communities of Ederswiler are Pleigne and Movelier in the Canton of Jura and Rye Castle in the canton of Basel-Landschaft.

Population

With 119 inhabitants ( as at 31 December 2012) is one Ederswiler to the small municipalities of the canton of Jura. It is the only German -speaking community in Canton. Of the residents, 84.5 % are in German, 10.1% French-speaking and Spanish-speaking 2.3% (as of 2000). Until 1635 they spoke French in place. In the 17th century the plague depopulated the village; then settled down in German colonists. Due to its remoteness Ederswiler is a church that had to accept a loss of population in the last decades. The population of Ederswiler amounted in 1850 to 219 residents in 1900 to 124 inhabitants. During the 20th century, the population fluctuated always in the range 110-170 people.

Economy

Ederswiler is heavily agricultural today; more than 50 % of the workforce are employed in the first sector. The remaining workers are employed mainly abroad. Every year, hosts an international motocross race in the community.

Traffic

Ederswiler is off the major thoroughfares; the regional road that leads through the village, connecting Delsberg with the French Ferrette / Pfirt in Alsace. The village is through the postal bus lines Delsberg - Roggenburg connected to public transport - Rye Castle and running. With the latter Ederswiler is integrated as a single community in the Jurassic Tarifverbund Northwestern Switzerland.

History

First mention is Ederswiler 1323 as Ernswilre. The village belonged to the parish of Rye, who stood under the bishop of Basel. This gave the parish from 1389 to 1454 the Counts of Thierstein as a fief. Between 1793 and 1815 Ederswiler 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 in 1815 the place came to the Canton of Bern.

In the Juraplebisziten to Ederswiler decided against the creation of the canton of Jura in 1974. However, the community had no common border with the Laufental, so that they do not like all border communities could determine their own membership Canton. January 1, 1979, therefore, was necessarily the transition from the canton of Bern at the newly created Canton of Jura. On it was written a long time an area Abtausch for Debate: Ederswiler should switch back to the Canton of Bern, while the municipality Vellerat which the connection to the Canton of Jura on the same grounds had been denied, should belong to the new canton of Jura. As the population of the Laufen 1990, however, spoke for the conversion to the canton of Basel -Landschaft, Ederswiler would have had no common borders with Bernese communities more. A new change of canton of Ederswiler is no longer up for discussion since that time.

Attractions

In the village of Santa Anna Chapel, which was built in 1857 stands.