Pleujouse
Pleujouse (French [ pløʒuz ], in local dialect [ piəʤu ː z]; German Plützhusen / Flash Oberhausen) is a village and a former municipality in the district of the Swiss canton of Jura Porrentruy.
Geography
Pleujouse is located at 580 m above sea level. M., 11 km east of the district main town Porrentruy (air line). The farming village extends in an eastern tributary of the Asuel brook in the Baroche, in the eastern Ajoie ( German Elsgau ) at the foot of the Jura mountains.
The area of only just 1.8 km ² large former municipal area comprises the Vale of Pleujouse surrounded by wooded Jura mountains: in the north of La Chaux (701 m asl. ), To the east Les Aidjolats and ( 787 m asl. ) south, the Grande Roche ( 825 m above sea level. M. the highest elevation of Pleujouse ). About the hilly terrain of Les Grande Roche Aidjolats and the watershed between the basins of the Rhine and Rhone runs. The municipal area is drained westward to Allaine. From the municipality surface 1997 3 % was attributable to settlements, 69 % of forest and woody plants and 28% to agriculture.
To Pleujouse include several individual farms. Neighboring communities of Pleujouse were Charmoille, Fregiécourt, Asuel, Bourrignon and Pleigne.
Population
With 91 inhabitants ( end of 2007) Pleujouse belonged before the congregation fusion of the smallest municipalities in the canton of Jura. Of the 91.3 % inhabitants are French-speaking, German-speaking 7.5 % and 1.2 % rätoromanischsprachig (as of 2000). The population of Pleujouse amounted in 1850 to 239 residents in 1900 to 135 inhabitants. During the 20th century, the population increased to 1990 it further decreased to 76 people. Since then, a slightly increasing trend was recorded.
Economy
Pleujouse is still mainly by agriculture, particularly fruit growing, embossed village. Even the local small business offers some jobs. However, many of the working population commuters and work in the region Porrentruy.
Traffic
Pleujouse is off the major thoroughfares on the main road of Fregiécourt after Asuel with the resort center can be reached by a spur road. By Postbus course, which runs between Porrentruy and Asuel, Pleujouse is connected to public transport.
History
The name of the village appears several times in the 12th century as a designation of origin: 1105 Lutfrido de Pluiusa; 1136 Huzone de Pluvioso; 1161 Phylippus de Pluuiosa; 1173 Gerardus de Pluiose miles ... miles Peter de Pluiose. This name comes from the Latin word pluviosus, - a,-um, rainy ' and will refer either to frequent rainy weather, or the swelling in the rain stream, along which the village is situated. 1292 is a German name Nùwenburc ( h) is, which is later replaced by Germanized forms of borrowed French name: early 14th century Plujusen; 1441 Blutzhusen, genant Nuwenburg.
Pleujouse told the eventful history of the Ajoie who came to the Prince-Bishopric of Basel in 1271. The village was under the 16th and 18th century the office Meier all. Between 1793 and 1815 Pleujouse 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 community came in 1815 to the canton of Bern and on 1 January 1979 at the newly founded Canton Jura. It was merged into the new municipality of La Baroche on 1 January 2009 with Asuel, Charmoille, Fregiécourt and Miécourt.
Attractions
On a rocky promontory above the village is the castle, built around 1100 by the Lords of Pleujouse. In addition to the circular walls of the round keep one of the oldest still existing facilities. The massive residential building dates from the 15th century; It was started in 1980 by a fire, but was restored since then. Pleujouse is part of the parish Charmoille and does not have its own church.