Villard-sur-Bienne

Villard -sur -Bienne is a town in the French department of Jura in the Franche -Comté.

Geography

Villard -sur -Bienne is at 722 m above sea level. M., about 10 km north- northeast of the town of Saint- Claude ( straight line ). The village is located in the Jura, a scenic location on a terrace on a sunny hillside about 230 m above the deep river of Bienne, on the southern slope of the Bois du Cernois.

The area of ​​10.37 km ² municipal area includes a portion of the French Jura. The southern boundary runs along the Bienne, which flows here in an erosion valley parallel to the Jura chain to the southwest. From the river, the municipality's area extends northward through a wooded and partly traversed by bands of rock slope on the terrace of Villard. This is followed in the north on the ridge of the Bois du Cernois, on 966 m above sea level. M. is achieved the highest elevation of Villard -sur -Bienne.

The landscape in the northwestern part of the municipality has only small differences in relief and is characterized by parallel ridges and terrain depressions, which are oriented in the southwest-northeast, according to the strike of the Jura Mountains in the area. In structural geological terms, they represent a series of anticlines and synclines, which consist predominantly of rock strata of the upper Jurassic period. In the Bois du Cernois follow the marshy valley of Combe de Laume, the height of Les Crozat (930 m above sea level. M. ) and the valley of the brook Loutre. The northwestern boundary is the ridge of the Bois de la Joux Devant (960 m above sea level. M. ). The area of Villard -sur -Bienne is part of the Parc Naturel Régional du Haut- Jura.

To Villard -sur -Bienne include the hamlet of Les Crozat (901 m above sea level. M. ) on the plateau at the edge of Combe de Laume and various individual courtyards. Neighboring communities of Villard -sur -Bienne are Chaux -des- Prés and Château -des- Prés in the north, Lézat in the east, the south and La Longchaumois Rixouse in the West.

History

Since the Middle Ages formed Villard -sur -Bienne, together with the neighboring village of La Rixouse a parish. Together with the Franche -Comté reached the village with the Peace of Nijmegen in 1678 to France. Until 1801 the town was called Les Villars, then Villard- la- Rixouse, and in 1904 the town was officially renamed in Villard -sur -Bienne.

Population

With 194 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2011) Villard -sur -Bienne is one of the smallest towns in the Jura. After the population had decreased significantly in the first half of the 20th century (1881 296 persons were still counted ), a significant population increase has been recorded since the early 1980s again.

Economy and infrastructure

Villard -sur -Bienne was until well into the 20th century a predominantly coined by agriculture, especially livestock and dairy farming, as well as by the forestry village. In addition, there are today some of the local small business enterprises. Meanwhile, the village has also changed into a residential community. Some of the working population commuters who engage in the larger towns in the vicinity of their work.

The village is located off the major thoroughfares, near the departmental road D437, which runs from Saint -Claude Saint- Laurent -en- Grandvaux. Another road connection with Morbier.

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  • Commune in the department of Jura
  • Place in Franche -Comté
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