Boncourt JU

JU is the abbreviation for the canton of Jura in Switzerland and is used to avoid confusion with other entries of the name Boncourt .

Boncourt

State :	Switzerland Switzerland
Canton :	Canton of Jura Law (JU)
District :	Porrentruyw
BFS no. :	6774i1 f3 f4
Postal code :	2926
UN / LOCODE :	CH BCU
Coordinates :	568 102 / 260 652 coordinates: 47 ° 29 '45 " N , 7 ° 0' 55" O ; CH1903: five hundred and sixty-eight thousand one hundred and two / two hundred sixty thousand six hundred fifty-two47.495841 7.015305 373
Height :	373 m above sea level M.
Height range :	364-548 m above sea level M.
Area :	9.02 km²
Residents:	1225 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	136 inhabitants per km²
Website:	www.boncourt.ch
Boncourt
Location of the municipality
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Boncourt is a municipality in the district of Porrentruy in the canton of Jura in Switzerland . The former German name Bubendorf is no longer used today.

geography

Historic aerial photo by Werner Friedli (1910–1996) from September 12, 1950

Boncourt is 373 m above sea level. M. , 10 km north-northwest of the district capital Pruntrut (air line). The village extends in the valley of the Allaine (Ger. Hall) in the extreme north of the Ajoie (German Elsgau ) on the border with France . The old village center is west of the Allaine, while newer residential areas have emerged along the main road.

The area of the 9.0 km² large municipal area includes the approximately 500 m wide flat valley of the Allaine in the central part, which is deepened into the undulating table Jura landscape of the northern Ajoie. In the east, the municipal area extends to the Mont Renaud ( 506 m above sea level ), in the south to the wooded heights of Le Recet and Le Neu Bois , which is 548 m above sea level. M. represents the highest point of the municipality. In 1997, 12% of the municipal area was settled, 41% forest and woodland, 46% agriculture and about 1% was unproductive land.

Several individual farms belong to Boncourt. The only Swiss neighboring municipality of Boncourt is Basse-Allaine , in France the place borders on Villars-le-Sec , Saint-Dizier-l'Évêque , Lebetain , Delle , Florimont and Courcelles .

population

Population development
year	Residents
1850	647
1900	932
1910	1,026
1930	1,138
1950	1,299
1960	1,493
1970	1,528
1980	1,468
1990	1,354
2000	1,358

With 1225 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2018) Boncourt is one of the larger municipalities in the canton of Jura. 96.6% of the residents are French-speaking, 2.1% German-speaking and 0.4% Italian-speaking (as of 2000). The population of Boncourt increased continuously until 1970. Since then, an overall downward trend has been observed.

economy

Around the middle of the 19th century, Boncourt changed from an agricultural to an industrial village. The first important factory was the tobacco factory founded by Martin Burrus in 1814 , which had a decisive influence on the development of the village. Today around 600 employees are employed in this cigarette factory . After the factory was sold to BAT, Charles Burrus set up the Fondation Guilé , a foundation that promotes corporate responsibility. There are other jobs in border trade and metal construction.

traffic

Boncourt has good transport links. The Boncourt - Delle border crossing is the most important in the canton of Jura on the border with France. It is located on the main road 6 from Porrentruy to Belfort with a junction in Delle to Montbéliard (dt. Mömpelgard). As part of the construction of the A16 motorway , a new border crossing was built west of the village, which connects the cities of Belfort and Delsberg continuously on an intersection-free road. On September 23, 1872 by the PD the railway Porrentruy-Delle opened with a station in Boncourt. Since December 10, 2006, trains have been running again between Boncourt and Delle after an eleven and a half year interruption. It is planned to restart the Delle – Belfort line to ensure a connection to the LGV Rhin-Rhône high-speed line, which is currently under construction .

history

Boncourt is first mentioned in 1140 as Bononis Curia . The name probably goes back to the Germanic personal name Bobo or Boso . However, the area was already inhabited in Roman times, because archaeologists discovered the remains of a Roman settlement on the hill of Châtillon southwest of the village.

Boncourt shared the checkered history of the Ajoie, which came to the Principality of Basel in 1271 . It was under the Meieramt Bure from the 16th to the 18th century . From 1793 to 1815 Boncourt 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.

Attractions

A tower on the ledge to the left of the Allaine is the only remnant of Milandre Castle , built in the 13th century by the Counts of Montbéliard and destroyed in 1674 as a result of the French occupation of Franche-Comté by Marshal de Turenne.

The church of Boncourt, Saint-Pierre-et-Paul, was rebuilt in 1920/21, whereby the Gothic choir and the front tower of the previous building were preserved. Significant furnishings include the baroque wood carving altar from 1725–30, a major work by the Breton brothers. In the old village center to the left of the Allaine you can still see some typical old half-timbered houses from the 18th and 19th centuries. Villa Burrus, built in the style of eclecticism , dates from 1909 .

The stalactite cave of the Grotte de Milandre south of the village is well worth seeing .