Sorvilier

Sorvilier: Birs and train station

Sorvilier is a municipality in the administrative district in the canton of Bern Bernese Jura in Switzerland. The former German name Surbelen is no longer used today.

Geography

Sorvilier is located on 681 m above sea level. M., 7 km south-west of the town Moutier (air line). The village extends into the Talniederung the Birs on both sides of the river, in the basin of Jura latitudinal Vallée de Tavannes.

The area of ​​7.0 km ² large municipality area includes a portion of the eastern part of the Vallée de Tavannes. From the valley floor of the Birs, the area extends northward over the height of Golat (778 m above sea level. M. ) in the Seitentälchen the stream of Champoz and up to the southern slopes of the north adjoining the Jura mountains of Mont Girod (up to 910 m above sea level. M. ). To the south Sorvilier extends over the steep slope of the Forêt de l' Envers on the broad crest of the Montoz chain on with 1'300 m above sea level. M. the highest point of the municipality is reached. Here there is an extensive Jura mountain meadows with the typical tall spruce trees that are either individually or in groups. From the municipality surface 1997 4 % came from settlements, 49 % of forest and shrubs, 46 % to agriculture and slightly less than 1% was unproductive land.

To Sorvilier include several individual farms, including those on the Montoz ( Montagne de Sorvilier ). Neighboring communities of Sorvilier are Bévilard, Champoz, Court, Romont and Pery.

Population

With 262 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012) Sorvilier one of the small communities of the Bernese Jura. Of the 90.4 % inhabitants are French-speaking, German-speaking 7.0 % and 1.1 % speak Albanian (as of 2000). The population of Sorvilier amounted in 1850 to 316 residents in 1900 to 438 inhabitants. Since 1930 (453 inhabitants), a significant decrease was recorded in total.

Economy

Sorvilier is still dominantly agricultural village, where dairy farming and livestock predominate, in the valley there are some farming. In the late 18th century settled in Sorvilier some farms the watch industry down. Today, there are some local small businesses. However, many of the working population commuters and work in the industrial towns of the Vallée de Tavannes.

Traffic

The community is conveniently moderately well developed. It lies on the busy busy main road Delémont to Tavannes. By 2015, the A16 motorway to be built in the Vallée de Tavannes, which will connect the Swiss motorway network with the French motorway network. On December 16, 1876, the railway line was inaugurated by Court to Tavannes, with a railway station in Sorvilier.

History

The first written mention of the village under the name Soruruillier goes back to the year 1148. Numerous other spellings appear in the following period: Sororviler ( 1179 ), Sororvilier ( 1308), Syrenvilier ( 1329 ), Survelier ( 1439) and 1461 for the first time Sorvilier. The place name derives from the Latin villa Sororum (village of the sisters ). The pin Moutier- Grandval that Bellelay Abbey and the Bishopric of Basel possessed estates in Sorvilier. The village was under since the 12th century, the provost Moutier- Grandval. From 1797 to 1815 belonged Sorvilier to France and was initially part of the département du Mont- Terrible, which was connected to the 1800 Haut -Rhin. By the decision of the Congress of Vienna, the place came in 1815 to the canton of Bern to the district of Moutier. In the 19th and beginning of the 20th century there were several large village fire.

Attractions

The two districts are connected by a stone bridge built in 1773 over the Birs. In the old part of the village south of the Birs some characteristic farmhouses from the 17th to the 19th centuries as well as several memory are preserved. The school house with bell tower was built in 1840 in the style of late classicism. Sorvilier does not have its own church, it belongs to the parish Court