Loveresse

Love Resse is a municipality in the administrative district in the canton of Bern Bernese Jura in Switzerland.

Geography

Love Resse is located on 761 m above sea level. M., 11 km west-southwest of the town Moutier (air line). The village is located in a depression on the southern slopes of the Jura chain of Moron, in the Vallée de Tavannes Juralängstal.

The area of 4.6 km ² large municipality area includes a narrow portion of the wide -carrying of the Birs valley basin of the Vallée de Tavannes. To the north the area ( Bois -au-Prince ) extends over the steep wooded slope to the crest of Moron chain where with 1'281 m above sea level. M. the highest point of Loveresse is achieved. On the crest there are extensive Jura high grazing pastures with the typical tall spruce trees that are either individually or in groups. In the south of the municipal area extends beyond the slowly rising slope Plan du Cerneux on the amount of Montoz - chain (up to 1,260 m above sea level. M. ). From the municipality surface 1997 6 % came from settlements, 48 % of forest and shrubs, 45 % to agriculture and slightly less than 1% was unproductive land.

To Loveresse include the eastern part of the hamlet of Moulin -de- Loveresse ( 721 m above sea level. M. ) on the valley floor near the mouth of the Trame in the Birs and several individual farms. Neighboring communities of Loveresse are Reconvilier, Saules, Souboz, Pontenet and Malleray.

Population

With 321 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012) Loveresse one of the smaller communities of the Bernese Jura. Of the 86.2 % inhabitants are French-speaking, 12.9 % German-speaking and Italian-speaking 0.3% (as of 2000). The population of Loveresse amounted in 1850 to 227 residents in 1900 to 383 inhabitants. Then she took up in 1990 from 260 persons; Since then, a significant population increase was recorded again.

Economy

Love Resse is still dominated by agriculture. End of the 19th century also won in Loveresse the watch manufacturing in importance, but could not hold for long. A wood- processing company and a window factory today offer some jobs. Many workers are therefore commuters and work in the industrial towns of the Vallée de Tavannes.

Traffic

The community is conveniently comparatively quite well developed. She can be reached by a spur road from the main road from Delémont to Tavannes. By 2015, the A16 motorway to be built in the Vallée de Tavannes, which will connect the Swiss motorway network with the French motorway network. Loveresse itself is not connected to public transport. The nearest train station is inaugurated on December 16, 1876 the railway from Court to Tavannes is located in Reconvilier (around 1.5 km from Loveresse away).

History

The first written record under the name Loveresce dated to the year 1148. Since 1267 the monastery Bellelay had larger estates in the area of Loveresse. The village was under until the end of the 18th century, the provost Moutier- Grandval. From 1797 to 1815 belonged Loveresse to France and was initially part of the département du Mont- Terrible, which was connected to the 1800 Haut -Rhin. By the decision of the Congress of Vienna, the place came in 1815 to the canton of Bern to the district of Moutier.

Attractions

In the center of Loveresse still be some characteristic farmhouses from the 17th to 19th centuries. The school house with bell tower was built in the style of late classicism. Loveresse does not have its own church, it belonged until 1928 to the parish Tavannes - Chaindon, since the parish Reconvilier.

Personalities

Charles Adrien Wettach (1880-1959), Clown, better known by his pseudonym Grock

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