Ocourt
Ocourt in spring
Ocourt (French [o ( ː ) ku ː ʀ ], in the local dialect [ Okwe ] ) is a village and a former municipality in the district of the Swiss canton of Jura Porrentruy.
Geography
Ocourt is located on 424 m above sea level. M., 7 km south of the district municipal seat Porrentruy (air line). The small village extends into the here 500 m wide Talniederung of the Doubs, the Jura Mountains west of Saint- Ursanne.
The area of 11.6 km ² large former municipal area comprises between two Jura chains deeply incised valley of the Doubs River in the area of the Clos du Doubs with a 200 to 500 m wide flat valley floor. The mostly steep, mostly forested flanks are partially crossed by rock walls. In the south of the territory reached to the chain of the Clos du Doubs (on Lai Gretche 885 m above sea level. M. ). To the north, the community area covered the Lomont and peaked at Les Chainions with 909 m above sea level. M. the highest point of Ocourt. The southern slope of the Jura chain has two deep erosion valleys, the middle is the 790 m high Montagne de Altenvalbert. From the municipality surface 1997 3 % was attributable to settlements, 56 % of forest and woody plants, 39% in agriculture and somewhat less than 2% was unproductive land.
To Ocourt the hamlet of La Motte (425 m above sea level. M. ) included in the Doubs Valley on the border with France, the Mont Hofsiedlungen Urban ( 581 m above sea level. M., on a terrace high above the Doubs) and Altenvalbert (757 m above sea level. M. inlier in the Lomont ) and several individual farms. Neighboring communities of Ocourt were Epiquerez, Seleute, Saint- Ursanne Montmelon Courgenay, Fontenais and Bressaucourt in the Canton of Jura and Montancy in neighboring France.
Population
With 134 inhabitants ( end of 2007) Ocourt was one of the small communities of the Canton of Jura. Of the 77.3 % inhabitants are French-speaking, 22.0 % and 0.8 % in German and Spanish speaking (as of 2000). The population of Ocourt amounted in 1850 to 381 residents in 1900 to 244 inhabitants. Since then, a further significant decrease in population was recorded.
Economy
Ocourt is an embossed through farming village, where the livestock and dairy farming predominate, and there are also fruit growing. The place offers few jobs outside the primary sector. Those workers who are not engaged in agriculture, mainly working in Saint- Ursanne.
Traffic
The community is located far away from the major thoroughfares on a main road that runs from Saint- Ursanne along the river Doubs to Saint -Hippolyte in France. By Postbus course, which runs between Saint- Ursanne and the border at La Motte, Ocourt is connected to public transport.
History
His first mention of the village is in a copy of 1179 a document from the year 1139 as Oscurt. The name is probably a composition of an Old High German personal name, possibly Hoso, Ozo, etc. and rom corte, court, manor, hamlet ', which occurs as a basic word, probably under the Germanic influence, contrary to the typical Romanesque composites word position to the end.
Between 1793 and 1815 Ocourt 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. In 1882 the former, consisting only of individual farms Munizipalgemeinde Montvoie joined the community Ocourt. This in turn was incorporated on January 1, 2009 Epauvillers, Epiquerez, Montenol Montmelon Saint- Ursanne and Seleute the new municipality Clos du Doubs.
Attractions
- Far outside the resort in the Talniederung the Doubs is the parish church of Saint- Valbert, which was built in 1641 and has a painted wooden ceiling from the 17th century.
- On the southern slope of Lomont are the ruins of the castle Montvoie, which was a fief of the Bishopric of Basel. Today there are still originating from the 10th and 11th century remains of the keep and a great hall to see.