Longemaison

Longemaison is a commune in the French department Doubs in the Franche -Comté.

Geography

Longemaison is located on 855 m above sea level, 10 km southeast of Valdahon and about 36 km east-southeast of the city of Besançon ( straight line ). The scattered settlement extends in the Jura, on a plateau at the northern foot of Mont Chaumont, south of the Bay of Avoudrey.

The area of ​​9.63 km ² municipal area includes a portion of the French Jura. The main part of the area is occupied by a weakly in relief Jura plateau, which is on average 820 m. It is characterized by several parallel, and mostly forested terrain ridges and intervening troughs or sinks that are partially vermoort and otherwise have pasture. The plateau has no above-ground rivers, because the rainwater seeps into the karst underground. To the south, the municipality's area covers the wide ridge of Mont Chaumont, on the with 1092 m the highest elevation reached by Longemaison. This ridge forms an anticlinal folds of the Jura and is oriented southwest-northeast direction according to the strike of the mountains in this region. The summit area is covered by pastures.

To Longemaison include various hamlets and numerous individual farms, including:

• Le Vernois (830 m) on the plateau at the northern foot of Mont Chaumont
• Montarmeux (785 m) on the plateau north of the village

Neighboring communities of Longemaison are Avoudrey in the north, Flangebouche in the east, Gilley and Arc- sous- Cicon in the south and Passonfontaine in the West.

History

The area of Longemaison formerly belonged to Avoudrey. After the French Revolution the scattered farms at the foot of Mont Chaumont were separated from Avoudrey and formed the community Longemaison in 1792. Its name from the community of La Longue Pachthof Maison. Since 1998 Longemaison is a member of the 44- villages municipal association Communauté de communes du Pays de Pierre Fontaine - Vercel.

By January 1, 2009 there was a change in the membership of the district municipality. So far, belonging to the district Besançon, all municipalities in the canton came to the district Pontarlier.

Attractions

The village church of Longemaison was built in 1829 on the site of an earlier chapel.

Population

With 137 inhabitants ( 1 January 2011) Longemaison is one of the smallest municipalities of the department of Doubs. After the population had decreased significantly in the first half of the 20th century (1881 304 persons were still counted ), only small fluctuations were recorded since the early 1980s.

Economy and infrastructure

Longemaison was until well into the 20th century a predominantly by agriculture ( dairy farming and animal husbandry, farming ) and forestry embossed village. Even today, the inhabitants live on the merits of the activity in the first sector. Outside of the primary sector, there are few jobs in the village. Some employed persons are also commuters who engage in the surrounding larger towns of their work.

The village is located off the major thoroughfares on a secondary road that leads from Avoudrey by Gilley. Further road links exist with Arc- sous- Cicon, Passonfontaine and Orchamps -Vennes. Longemaison has a station on the railway from Besancon to Le Locle.