Roche-d'Or
Roche- d'Or (French [ ʀɔʃdɔʀ ], in local dialect [(a) ruɛʤ doɛ ]; German gold rock; mlat Rupes Aurea. ) Is a village with castle ruins and a formerly independent municipality in the district of the Swiss canton of Jura Porrentruy. It's Haute- Ajoie since 2009 part of the community.
Geography
Roche- d'Or is located at 842 m above sea level. M., 11 km southwest of the district municipal seat Porrentruy (air line). The small village extends in a promising position on a ridge of the Jura range Lomont, in the southwest of Ajoie ( German Elsgau ).
The area of 3.5 km ² large former municipal area includes a portion of the crest of the Lomont which separates the Ajoie the north by the valley of the Doubs River in the south. The highest point of Roche- d'Or is located on the 927 m high lookout mountain Faux d' Enson. There is an observation tower from which you can overlook the entire region. In the southwest, the area extends in a rapidly for Doubs sloping northern side valley. From the municipality surface 1997 3 % was attributable to settlements, 42 % of forest and woody plants and 55 % to agriculture.
At Roche- d'Or include the farm cluster Vacherie -Dessus (865 m above sea level. M. ) at the level of Lomont as well as several individual farms. Neighboring towns of Roche- d'Or are Réclère, Grand Fontaine, Rocourt and Chevenez in the Canton of Jura and Vaufrey and Glère in neighboring France.
Population
Since the mid-19th century, the population of the town has been greatly reduced:
With 38 inhabitants ( end of 2007) was Roche- d'Or before the merger, the smallest municipality in the canton of Jura. Of the 33 residents in 2000 were 29 ( 87.9 %) and French- four ( 12.1%) in German.
Because of population shrinkage, the school was closed in 1977.
Economy
Roche- d'Or is a coined by farming village, where the livestock and dairy farming predominate. The place offers little jobs outside the primary sector. The few workers who are not engaged in agriculture, mainly working in the region Porrentruy.
Traffic
Roche- d'Or is located off the main roads. From the Canton road that runs from Porrentruy over the border crossing of Damvant to Pont -de- Roide in France, there is up a side road to Roche -d'Or. The village has with the Paratransit Ajoie a modest access to public transport.
History
The place is first mentioned in 1283 as Goldenvels and 1284 as Rozhedor. With the element dt French roche /. Rock is a typical castle name. The Basel Prince-Bishop Heinrich von Isny, who fought with the Count of Montbéliard for possession of the Ajoie let build this year a castle, which became the center of the domain Roche- d'Or. To this rule were the neighboring villages Damvant, Grand Fontaine, Réclère, Chevenez and Fahy. The castle was recaptured in 1425 by the Basel Prince Bishop John IV of Fleckenstein ( 1423-1436 ) of deposit owned by the Count thiébaut VIII of Neuchatel -en- Bourgogne. Thiébaut had refused to him by his uncle, the Prince-Bishop of Basel Humbrecht of Neuchâtel (1399-1418), surrendered the castle and dominion free mountains surrendered again. In response, Prince-Bishop Johann IV occupy not only the castle Spiegelberg by force of arms, but also the other assets pledged by his predecessors to thiébaut castles Roche- d'Or, Saint- Ursanne and Pleujouse.
The castle was destroyed in 1595 by order of the Prince-Bishop Jakob Christoph Blarer (of Wartensee ) because he could not secure enough. Today, the ruins of almost nothing more to see.
From the 16th to the 18th century, the village was under the Office Meier Chevenez. Between 1793 and 1815 Roche d'Or 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, on 1 January 1979 at the newly founded Canton Jura. It was incorporated on January 1, 2009 Chevenez, Damvant and Réclère to the new community Haute- Ajoie.
Attractions
In Roche- d'Or is a small chapel, but the village is part of the parish of Grand Fontaine.