Bois d'Amont
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| region | Bourgogne-Franche-Comté | |
| Department | law | |
| Arrondissement | Saint-Claude | |
| Canton | Morez | |
| Community association | Station des Rousses-Haut Jura | |
| Coordinates | 46 ° 32 ' N , 6 ° 8' E | |
| height | 1,042-1,310 m | |
| surface | 12.06 km 2 | |
| Residents | 1,655 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 137 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 39220 | |
| INSEE code | 39059 | |
| Website | www.boisdamont.fr | |
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Bois-d'Amont is a commune in the French department of Jura in the region Bourgogne Franche-Comté .
geography
Bois-d'Amont is located at 1076 m , ten kilometers east of Morez and about 38 km north of the city of Geneva (as the crow flies). The village extends in the Jura , in the valley of the Orbe on both sides of the river, between the forest heights of the Risoux in the northwest and the Mont Pelé in the southeast, northeast of the Lac des Rousses , in the immediate vicinity of the Swiss border . Bois-d'Amont is the easternmost municipality in the Jura department.
The area of the 12.06 km² large municipality covers a section of the French Jura. The landscape is characterized by parallel ridges and longitudinal hollows, which are oriented towards the southwest-northeast in accordance with the direction of the fold of the Jura in this area. The central part of the municipality is occupied by the valley of the Orbe, the southwest continuation of the Vallée de Joux , which is a syncline of the Jura folds. The flat valley floor through which the river meanders is around one kilometer wide. It used to form an extensive moor area. In the southeast, the valley is flanked by the densely wooded slope of the Côte , which leads to the height of Mont Pelé. The municipal border and at the same time the national border with Switzerland mostly runs along the southern edge of the valley; only a small section of the Côte above the town center belongs to Bois-d'Amont. Here, at the edge of the terrace of Les Loges , the highest point in Bois-d'Amont is reached at 1,300 m .
On its northwest side, the Orbe Valley is also accompanied by a steep forest slope. The municipal area extends over an impassable area with parallel ridges and intervening, above-ground drainage-free hollows up to the Crêt des Arêtes (up to 1275 m ). The municipality is part of the Upper Jura Regional Nature Park (French: Parc naturel régional du Haut-Jura ).
A special feature is the settlement form of Bois-d'Amont. Besides the center around the church in the middle of the valley, the built-up area extends along the two roads that follow the northern and southern edge of the valley, as the middle of the valley used to be a swamp area . The row of houses along these two streets extends over a length of four kilometers each. In addition to the actual village, Bois-d'Amont also includes several settlements, hamlets, groups of farms and individual farms, including:
- Le Vivier-de-Bois-d'Amont ( 1080 m ) on the northern edge of the valley
- Les Landes-d'Aval ( 1072 m ) on the southern edge of the valley
- Les Meuniers ( 1060 m ) on the left bank of the Orbe
- Les Landes-d'Amont ( 1087 m ) in an elevated position on the southern edge of the valley
- Les Combettes ( 1091 m ) on a ledge on the northern edge of the valley
Neighboring municipalities of Bois-d'Amont are Les Rousses in the southwest, Bellefontaine and Chapelle-des-Bois in the northwest and the Swiss municipalities Le Chenit in the northeast and Arzier-Le Muids in the southeast.
history
The area of Bois-d'Amont was cleared and made arable in the Middle Ages by the monks of the Abbey of Saint-Claude . After the Reformation , the place formed the border between the reformed Vallée de Joux, which was under Bernese sovereignty, and the still Catholic uppermost part of the Orbe Valley, which belonged to the Free County of Burgundy. Together with Franche-Comté , Bois-d'Amont came to France with the Peace of Nijmegen in 1678.
Attractions
The village church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary ( Église de la Nativité-de-la-Bienheureuse-Vierge-Marie ) of Bois-d'Amont has been changed several times over the years; she has a 17th century choir. The Musée de la Boissellerie is located in the building of a former sawmill.
population
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| year | Residents |
| 1962 | 1,189 |
| 1968 | 1,258 |
| 1975 | 1,254 |
| 1982 | 1,255 |
| 1990 | 1,350 |
| 1999 | 1,517 |
| 2007 | 1,637 |
With 1655 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) Bois-d'Amont is one of the smaller communities in the Jura department. After the population had decreased markedly in the first half of the 20th century (1411 people were still counted in 1886), a significant increase in population has been recorded since the beginning of the 1980s.
Economy and Infrastructure
For a long time Bois-d'Amont was predominantly a village characterized by agriculture , in particular cattle and dairy farming, and forestry. In addition, there are various small and medium-sized businesses today. In addition to the traditional branches of sawmills, woodworking and cheese making, companies specializing in skiing, chalet construction and the wood industry are now represented in the village. In the first half of the 19th century, the manufacture of watch cases as well as boxes and boxes also played an important role.
As a resort in a popular excursion area in the High Jura, Bois-d'Amont also benefits from tourism today. It belongs to the Rousses-Haut-Jura winter sports area and is mainly geared towards Nordic skiing. So has z. B. the ski manufacturer Vandel has its headquarters in this village.
The village is very well developed in terms of traffic. It is located on the main road from Vallorbe through the Vallée de Joux to Les Rousses. Another road connection is with Bellefontaine.
Personalities
- Léo Lacroix (* 1937), former ski racer
- Jason Lamy Chappuis (* 1986), French Nordic combined skier and ski jumper
