Bellefontaine (Saint-Ursanne)

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Bellefontaine is a hamlet around 4 km west of Saint-Ursanne in the Swiss canton of Jura on the main road 249 .

At Bellfontaine there was an ironworks that manufactured weapons and telegraph wires until 1861 and that was founded in 1753 by the Basel prince-bishop Josef Wilhelm Rinck von Baldenstein . From 1869 to 1873, Cordier & Cie. 4000 cousin rifles manufactured in Bellefontaine .

From 1902 to 1972 an electric river power plant was operated on a side canal of the Doubs . Then the weir was dismantled upstream, so that the concreted river threshold is still there, but the gates and the pedestrian walkway have been removed.

literature

  • Emile Froté: Les origines de l'usine de Bellefontaine. Association pour la défense des intérêts du Jura, Delémont 1948.
  • Charles Knapp, Maurice Borel, Victor Attinger, Heinrich Brunner, Société neuchâteloise de géographie (editors): Geographical Lexicon of Switzerland . Volume 1: Aa - Emmengruppe . Verlag Gebrüder Attinger, Neuenburg 1902, p. 183, keyword Bellefontaine   ( scan of the lexicon page ).
  • Dominique Prongué: Bellefontaine. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . February 15, 2017 , accessed August 9, 2019 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Revue militaire suisse, 1873 (18), p. 536.

Coordinates: 47 ° 21 '25 "  N , 7 ° 5' 57"  E ; CH1903:  574362  /  245181