Montignez
Montignez (French [ mɔtiɲe ], in the local dialect [(a) mũtɲe ] ) is a village and a former municipality in the district of the Swiss canton of Jura Porrentruy.
Geography
Montignez is located on 421 m above sea level. M., 8 km north of the district municipal seat Porrentruy (air line). The farming village extends in a wide valley on the Tabular Jura plateau east of Allainetals, in the extreme north of the Ajoie ( German Elsgau ) on the border with France.
The area of 5.9 km ² large former municipal area comprises the central part of the basin of the Trockentals Montignez, which opens out to the creek Coeuvatte. In the north, the area extends to the eastern slopes of Mont Renaud, in the east to the height Les Genavrires and in the south to the amount of Chênois, on 485 m above sea level. M. the highest point of Montignez is. To the southwest, the municipality's area extended over the forest height Les Réchennes to the Talniederung the Allaine. From the municipality surface 1997 4 % came from settlements, 38 % of forest and woody plants and 58 % to agriculture.
To Montignez include lying to the right of Allaine parts of the hamlet Grandgourt ( 389 m above sea level. M. ) and several individual farms. Neighboring communities of Montignez are Buix, Courtemaîche, Damphreux and Damphreux in the Canton of Jura and Courcelles in neighboring France.
Population
With 243 inhabitants ( end of 2007) Montignez was one of the small communities of the Canton of Jura. Of the 91.2 % inhabitants are French-speaking, German-speaking 6.8 % and 0.8 % portugiesischsprachig (as of 2000). The population of Montignez amounted in 1850 to 357 residents in 1900 to 318 inhabitants. During the 20th century, a declining trend was recorded in total.
Economy
Montignez is still characterized predominantly agricultural thanks to the fertile lands in the area. Some jobs are available in precision workshops as well as in the local small businesses. But many of the working commuters and work in Boncourt or in the region Porrentruy.
Traffic
The former municipality is situated on the main road that leads from Buix along the northern boundary of the Ajoie after Damphreux and Beurnevésin. By Postbus course, which runs in Buix and Montignez between the station, the village is served by public transport.
History
Already in the year 731 or 732 of the village was first mentioned: Actum Montaniaco vico. Around 1170 the place name appears as Mont Teignei, 1189 as Montegnez; he goes back -akos/-acum on a derivative of the Latin personal name Montanius with the Celtic Ortsnamensuffix. Montignez was with the Priory of Grandgourt owned by the monastery Bellelay. It told the eventful history of the Ajoie who first came to the Prince-Bishopric of Basel in 1271. From the 16th to the 18th century, the village was under the Office Meier Coeuve. Between 1793 and 1815 Montignez 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 incorporated on January 1, 2009 Buix and Courtemaîche the new community Basse- Allaine.
Attractions
The parish church of Saint -Martin has a late Gothic choir. The church was extensively restored in 1778 and has a bell tower which was built in 1868 in a mixture of styles of Neoclassicism and Gothic Revival. The three altars were transferred here from the Priory Grandgourt and submitted by Jean -Pierre Breton ( 1738). In the center numerous farmhouses of the 19th century as well as some half-timbered houses are preserved in the Alsatian style.