Rix (Jura)
Rix, locally the name Rix - Trébief is common, is a commune in the French department of Jura in the Franche -Comté.
Geography
Rix is about eleven kilometers east of the city Champagnole (air line). The farming community extends in the Jura, a slightly elevated position to the south of the valley of the brook Settière, opposite the hill of Nozeroy.
The area of 5.17 km ² municipal area includes a portion of the French Jura. The northern border is always in the area of the creek Settière flowing through a wide Talniederung to the west, is dammed below Trébief to the pond Etang de la Settière and drains the area over the stream serpentine for Ain. From the creek, the municipality's area extends southward over the flood plain and the gently rising slope of Rix up on the adjacent plateau, the average at 850 m above sea level. M. lies. The area is mainly covered by meadows and pastures. On a hilltop in the hallway Le Mariage is 923 m above sea level. M. reached the highest elevation of Rix.
At Rix includes the villages Rix (775 m above sea level. M. ) and Trébief ( 763 m above sea level. M. ) and the farmstead Le Barbillon. Neighboring communities of Rix Nozeroy and Longcochon in the north, La Latette in the east, and Fraroz Billecul in the south and La Favière in the West.
History
Are first mentioned Rix and Trébief in the 14th century. Since the Middle Ages the village belonged to the dominion Nozeroy. Following a plague epidemic in the early 17th century, they were destroyed in 1639 by troops of Duke Bernhard of Saxe- Weimar. Together with the Franche -Comté they came with the Peace of Nijmegen in 1678 to France. To a field change occurred in 1827, when the previously independent Rix was combined with Trébief.
Population
With 83 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2011) Rix is one of the smallest towns in the Jura. After the population had decreased significantly in the first half of the 20th century (1896 181 persons were still counted ), only small fluctuations were recorded since the early 1970s.
Economy and infrastructure
Rix was until well into the 20th century a predominantly shaped by agriculture, particularly dairy farming and cattle community. Even today, the inhabitants live primarily from this activity. Outside of agriculture and dairy industry, there are few jobs in the village. Some employed persons are also commuters who engage in the surrounding larger towns of their work.
The community is located off the major thoroughfares near a secondary road that leads from Nozeroy after Cerniébaud. Another road connection with Billecul.
Arsure- Arsurette | Bief -du- Fourg | Billecul | Censeau | Cerniébaud | Charency | Communailles -en- Montagne | Conte | Cuvier | Doye | Esserval -Combe | Esserval - Tartre | La Favière | Fraroz | Gillois | La Latette | Longcochon | Mièges | Mignovillard | Molpré | Mournans - Charbonny | Nozeroy | Onglières | Plénise | Plénisette | Rix
- Commune in the department of Jura
- Place in Franche -Comté