Le Bémont
Le Bémont
Le Bémont (JU ) is a municipality in the district Franches- Montagnes in the canton of Jura in Switzerland.
Geography
Le Bémont is located on 982 m above sea level. M., 1.5 km northeast of the district municipal seat Saignelégier (air line). The former street line village stretches along a sloping hillside to the southeast on the Jura plateau of the mountains free (French Freiberge ).
The area of 11.6 km ² large municipality area includes a portion of the gently undulating plateau of the Jura plateau on which boggy, usually above ground endorheic valleys with peaks of limestone alternate. The northern limit is close to the steep drop to the Doubs Valley. To the south, the area of Le Bémont extends over vast grazing areas and the level of Le Haut Bémont ( 1,070 m above sea level. M. ) to the nature reserve of Etang Royes. Near the courtyards of Les Rouges- Terres is with 1'075 meters above sea level. M. reached the highest point of the municipality. From the municipality surface 1997 4 % came from settlements, 26 % of forest and shrubs, 69% to agriculture and about 1% was unproductive land.
At Le Bémont includes the hamlet of La Bosse ( 949 m above sea level. M. in a depression in the north of the village ), Les Communances (950 m above sea level. M. ) and Les Cufattes ( 962 m above sea level. M. ) in the valley southeast of Le Bémont, Les Rouges- Terres ( 1,010 m above sea level. M. ) on the subsequent level, as well as several individual farms. Neighboring communities of Le Bémont are Saignelégier, Les Enfers and Montfaucon in the Canton of Jura and Tramelan in Canton Bern.
Population
With 319 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012) Le Bémont one of the smaller municipalities in the canton of Jura. Of the 97.4 % inhabitants are French-speaking and German-speaking 2.3 % (as of 2000). Since the second half of the 19th century, the population of Le Bémont has halved (1870 were 718 inhabitants, 1910 or 522 inhabitants counted ).
Economy
Le Bémont is a predominantly dominantly agricultural village with a lot of pastureland and major horse breeding. Outside the primary sector but few jobs in the local small businesses are available. Many workers are therefore commuters.
Traffic
The municipality is situated on the main street of Delémont to La Chaux -de-Fonds. On 21 May 1904, the railway line of the Chemins de fer du Jura Glovelier opened with a station in Le Bémont to Saignelégier.
History
His first mention of the village is 1330 as Le Belmont. It belonged to the manor free mountains covered by the prince-bishops of Basel. Between 1793 and 1815 Le Bémont 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
On pasture north of the hamlet of La Bosse is an 1898 in the Gothic Revival style newly built chapel, dedicated to the nun Jeanne Froidevaux. Ecclesiastical However, Le Bémont was dependent to 1629 of Montfaucon and since then Saignelégier. Also worth seeing are the whitewashed farmhouses typical of the high Jura with large roof surface. The uniform townscape of La Bosse counts with the dating from the 17th to 19th century farmhouses to the most beautiful of the canton of Jura.
Pictures
Hamlet of La Bosse
The Chemins de fer train du Jura in Le Bémont