Bassecourt

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Bassecourt
Bassecourt coat of arms
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Canton of JuraCanton of Jura Law (JU)
District : Delémontw
Municipal municipality : Haute-Sornei2
Postal code : 2854
former BFS no. : 6701
Coordinates : 585 430  /  243133 coordinates: 47 ° 20 '20 "  N , 7 ° 14' 45"  O ; CH1903:  585,430  /  243133
Height : 477  m above sea level M.
Area : 15.57  km²
Residents: 3492 (December 31, 2012)
Population density : 224 inhabitants per km²
Website: www.bassecourt.ch
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Bassecourt (old German name Altdorf ) is a village in the municipality of Haute-Sorne , Delémont district in the canton of Jura in Switzerland . Until the merger with the municipalities of Courfaivre , Glovelier , Soulce and Undervelier on January 1, 2013, Bassecourt was a separate municipality.

geography

Bassecourt is 477  m above sea level. M. , 8 km west-southwest of the canton capital Delémont (air line). The community extends on both sides of the Sorne , in the western part of the Delsberger Basin , a wide depression in the Jura .

The Sorne flows through Bassecourt
Parish before the merger on January 1, 2013
Aerial photo (1955)
A bronze sculpture from Bassecourt

The area of ​​the community area of ​​15.6 km 2 covers part of the agriculturally intensively used plain of the Delsberg basin. In the south it extends to the adjoining, densely wooded Jura range of Frénois, which is 1029  m above sea level. M. achieved. In the southwest part and the lower part of the Sorne Gorge to Lower Court, a typical Jura transverse valley , flanked by the cliffs of the Côte au Pucin in the west and the Côte de la Chaux in the east. To the north the area extends over wooded, hilly terrain in the area of ​​the valley of the Rouge-Eau to the foot of the Les-Rangiers chain. In 1997, 10% of the municipal area was in settlements, 50% in forests and woodland, 39% in agriculture and just under 1% was unproductive land.

Bassecourt includes the hamlet of Berlincourt at the exit of the Sorne Gorge , the La Jacoterie farm estate ( 758  m above sea level ) on a promontory on the eastern slope of the Sorne Gorge, and several individual farms. Bassecourt's neighboring communities are Glovelier , Boécourt , Develier , Courfaivre and Undervelier .

population

With 3492 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2012), Bassecourt was the third largest municipality in the canton of Jura. 88.5% of the residents are French-speaking, 3.2% Italian-speaking and 2.9% German-speaking (as of 2000). The population of Bassecourt showed high growth rates, especially from 1950 to 1970. After a phase of stagnation during the 1970s, a slightly increasing trend has been recorded since 1980.

Population development
year 1850 1900 1910 1930 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000
Residents 759 1060 1105 1279 1625 2284 2985 2942 3150 3283

economy

Bassecourt developed into a regional center for the watch industry after the Second World War , with mainly watch cases being manufactured. While Ervin Piquerez SA of the two large watch case manufacturers no longer exists, Georges Ruedin SA has survived the crisis well and is still an important employer. The crisis that started in this specialized industrial sector in 1975 hit the town hard and after the closure of Piquerez led to a temporary decrease in population. Today the watch industry has largely recovered and the production of electronic devices, tubes and medical instruments are multiplying the jobs.

A bronze foundry produces sculptures in Bassecourt.

traffic

The community has good transport links. It is located on the main road 6 between Delémont and La Chaux-de-Fonds and has its own connection to the section of the A16 motorway from Delémont to Porrentruy , which was opened in 1998 and which is to be connected to both the Swiss national road network and the French motorway network by 2015 . On October 15, 1876, the Delémont – Glovelier railway line was opened with a station in Bassecourt.

history

Church and school in the center

Finds indicate that the area around Bassecourt was already settled in the Bronze Age . Roman coins from the 4th century have been discovered near Berlincourt , and a grave field with rich burial objects is dated to the 6th to 7th centuries. The village is first mentioned as a baressicort in a document from 1160, when the Counts of Ferrette donated the place to the church of Moutier-Grandval . The name is probably derived from the homestead of a German called Basso.

Bassecourt belonged to the Principality of Basel since 1271. It suffered severe damage during the Thirty Years War . From 1793 to 1815 it belonged to France and was initially part of the Département du Mont-Terrible , from 1800 connected to the Département Haut-Rhin . By decision of the Congress of Vienna , the place came to the canton of Bern in 1815 and on January 1, 1979 to the newly founded canton of Jura. A fire caused by a heavy thunderstorm on July 21, 1871 caused major damage to the structure.

Attractions

Saint-Hubert chapel
  • The parish church of Saint-Pierre originally dates from 1568, but was renovated in 1828. The rural parsonage, which is typical of the area and was built at the end of the 16th century and modified in the 17th century, is worth seeing.
  • The Saint-Hubert chapel was built on a Burgundian cemetery. The current building, into which the Bassecourt menhir was integrated, dates from 1697 and was renovated in 1954 and 1978.
  • Most of the houses in the village center date from the 19th century.
  • There has been a reformed church since 1945.

  • The school house

  • 19th century house (demolished)

  • Soldiers' room December 25, 1917

  • Village center

  • reformed Church

  • Festival hall

Personalities

literature

  • Jean-Daniel Kleisl: Piquerez SA & Ruedin SA. The patronage of the boîte de montre in the vallée de Delémont. L'exemple de E. Piquerez SA et de G. Ruedin SA à Bassecourt (1926-1982) . Alphil, Neuchâtel 1999, ISBN 2-940235-01-5 .

Web links

Commons : Bassecourt  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jean-Daniel Kleisl: Piquerez, Ervin. In: Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz ., Accessed on May 2, 2014