Sorvilier

Sorvilier

State :	Switzerland Switzerland
Canton :	Canton Bern Bern (BE)
Administrative district :	Bernese Juraw
BFS no. :	0711i1 f3 f4
Postal code :	2736
Coordinates :	589 925 / 232160 coordinates: 47 ° 14 '25 " N , 7 ° 18' 20" O ; CH1903: 589925 / 23216047.240281 7.305562 681
Height :	681 m above sea level M.
Height range :	671–1296 m above sea level M.
Area :	6.90 km²
Residents:	283 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	41 inhabitants per km²
Website:	www.sorvilier.ch
Sorvilier: Birs and train station
Location of the municipality
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Sorvilier is a municipality in the Bernese Jura administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland . The former German name Surbelen is no longer used today.

geography

Sorvilier is 681 m above sea level. M. , 7 km southwest of the village of Moutier (linear distance). The village extends in the valley of the Birs on both sides of the river, in the basin of the Juraängstals Vallée de Tavannes .

The area of the 7.0 km² municipal area covers a section in the eastern part of the Vallée de Tavannes. From the valley floor of the Birs the area extends northwards over the height of Golat ( 778 m above sea level ) into the side valley of the brook of Champoz and to the southern slope of the Jura chain of Mont Girod (up to 910 m above sea level ). To the south, Sorvilier extends over the steep slope of the Forêt de l'Envers to the wide ridge of the Montoz chain, on which at 1,300 m above sea level. M. the highest point of the municipality is reached. Here there are extensive Jura high pastures with the typical mighty spruce trees , which either stand individually or in groups. In 1997, 4% of the municipal area was settled, 49% forest and woodland, 46% agriculture, and a little less than 1% was unproductive land.

Several individual farms belong to Sorvilier, including those on the Montoz (Montagne de Sorvilier). Sorvilier's neighboring municipalities are Valbirse , Champoz , Court , Romont and Péry .

population

With 283 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2018) Sorvilier is one of the small communities in the Bernese Jura . 90.4% of the residents are French-speaking, 7.0% German-speaking, and 1.1% speak Albanian (as of 2000). The population of Sorvilier was 316 in 1850 and 438 in 1900. Since 1930 (453 inhabitants) there has been a significant decrease overall.

politics

The voting shares of the parties at the 2015 National Council election were: SP 36.4%, SVP 23.5%, EDU 11.5%, PdA 8.5%, GPS 5.9%, BDP 4.1%, glp 3.5 %, FDP 3.4%, EVP 2.1%, CVP 0.9%.

economy

Sorvilier is still an agricultural village, with dairy farming and cattle breeding predominating, there is some arable farming in the valley . At the end of the 18th century, several watchmaking companies set up shop in Sorvilier . Today there is some local small business. However, many workers are commuters and work in the industrial communities of the Vallée de Tavannes.

traffic

The community has good transport links. It is located on the busy main road from Delémont to Tavannes . In 2015, the A16 motorway was built in the Vallée de Tavannes , which connects the Swiss national road network with the French motorway network. On December 16, 1876, the railway line from Court to Tavannes was inaugurated with a station in Sorvilier.

history

Aerial photo (1955)

The first written mention of the village under the name Soruruillier dates back to 1148. Numerous other spellings appear in the following period: Sororviler (1179), Sororvilier (1308), Syrenvilier (1329), Survelier (1439) and Sorvilier for the first time in 1461. The place name is derived from the Latin Villa Sororum (village of the sisters) . The pin Moutier that Abbey Bellelay and the Archbishopric Basel possessed goods in Sorvilier. The village was under the Moutier-Grandval Provost since the 12th century. From 1797 to 1815 Sorvilier belonged to France and was initially part of the Mont-Terrible department , which was connected to the Haut-Rhin department in 1800 . By the decision of the Congress of Vienna , the place came to the canton of Bern to the district of Moutier in 1815 . There were several large village fires in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

On September 17, 2017, there was a vote in Sorvilier on whether the municipality should remain in the canton of Bern or move to the canton of Jura. With 121 (66.1%) to 62 votes (33.9%), the voters - unlike those of Moutier on June 18, 2017 - were clearly in favor of remaining in the canton of Bern.

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 19th centuries and several granaries have been preserved. The school building with a bell tower was built in 1840 in the style of late classicism . Sorvilier does not have its own church, it belongs to the parish of Court .