Bonnétage
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| region | Bourgogne-Franche-Comté | |
| Department | Doubs | |
| Arrondissement | Pontarlier | |
| Canton | Morteau | |
| Community association | Plateau de Russey | |
| Coordinates | 47 ° 11 ' N , 6 ° 43' E | |
| height | 615–1,045 m | |
| surface | 17.71 km 2 | |
| Residents | 917 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 52 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 25210 | |
| INSEE code | 25074 | |
 Saint-Antoine church |
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Bonnétage is a French municipality with 917 inhabitants (as of January 1 2017) in Doubs in the region Bourgogne Franche-Comté .
geography
Bonnétage is located at 935 m , ten kilometers southwest of Maîche and about 14 kilometers northwest of the Swiss city of La Chaux-de-Fonds (as the crow flies). The village extends in the Jura on a south-facing slope at the height of Sur le Rocher , to the west of the Maîche plateau and south of the Dessoubre valley.
The area of the 17.71 km² municipality covers a section of the French Jura. The main part of the area is occupied by the low relief high plateau of Maîche, which averages 880 m. It is mainly made up of meadows and pastureland, but also shows some larger forest areas, especially the Grand Bois . The plateau has no above-ground watercourses because the rainwater seeps into the karstified subsoil. The northern border runs in the area of the heights of Champ du Bois ( 980 m ) and Sur le Rocher ( 978 m ), which form the boundary between the Maîche plateau and the Dessoubre valley.
To the south-east, the community area extends with a long narrow strip over the almost 10 km wide high plateau down into the canyon-like cut valley of the Doubs . It also includes a section of the wide ridge of the Grand Mont , on which the highest point of Bonnétage is reached at 1047 m. From a geological and tectonic point of view, this ridge forms an anticline of the Jura folds and is oriented in the south-west-north-east direction in accordance with the direction of the mountains in this region.
The municipality of Bonnétage consists of different districts, hamlets and numerous individual farms, namely:
- Le Village Haut ( 935 m ) with the church, on the southern slope of the sur le Rocher
- Le Village Bas ( 885 m ), the oldest part of the municipality, at the southern foot of the Sur le Rocher height
- Le Grand Communal ( 848 m ), today's center of the municipality, on the Maîche plateau
- Le Petit Communal ( 842 m ) on the Maîche plateau
- Les Fourgs ( 861 m ) on the plateau on the north-eastern edge of the height of Le Mémont
- La Pâture-des-Brébis ( 890 m ) on the southwestern edge of the height of Les Fontenelles
- Les Cerneux-Monnots (885) on the Maîche plateau
Neighboring municipalities of Bonnétage are Grand'Combe-des-Bois , Le Russey , Le Luhier , Montbéliardot and Plaimbois-du-Miroir in the west, Rosureux and Saint-Julien-lès-Russey in the north, Les Fontenelles and Fournet-Blancheroche in the east as well as the Swiss municipality of La Chaux-de-Fonds in the south.
history
The Bonnétage area was cleared and reclaimed in the Middle Ages by monks from the Laval Priory . Together with Franche-Comté , the village came to France with the Peace of Nijmegen in 1678. Around 1900 Bonnétage experienced an economic boom with the introduction of the watch industry.
On January 1, 2009, the arrondissement membership of the municipality was changed. Previously belonging to the arrondissement of Montbéliard , all municipalities of the canton came to the arrondissement of Pontarlier.
Attractions
The village church of Saint-Antoine in the Le Village Haut district was built in the 14th century in Gothic style and redesigned in the 16th century. Another church is in the hamlet of Les Cerneux-Monnots. In the various villages and hamlets, especially in Les Cerneux-Monnots, various farmhouses from the 17th to 19th centuries have been preserved in the traditional Franche-Comté style.
population
| Population development | |
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| year | Residents |
| 1962 | 618 |
| 1968 | 604 |
| 1975 | 642 |
| 1982 | 640 |
| 1990 | 657 |
| 1999 | 674 |
| 2004 | 714 |
| 2016 | 887 |
With 917 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) Bonnétage is one of the small communities in the Doubs department. After the population in the first half of the 20th century had always been in the range between 500 and 550 people, there has been a slight population growth since the beginning of the 1950s.
Economy and Infrastructure
Bonnétage was a village dominated by agriculture (cattle breeding and dairy farming) and forestry until the 20th century. The business is mainly located in the Le Grand Communal district. There are various small and medium-sized businesses here, especially in the watchmaking and décolletage, micromechanics and transport industries. Many workers are also commuters who work in the surrounding larger towns.
The village is well developed in terms of traffic. It is on the main D437 road from Montbéliard to Morteau . Further road connections exist with Orchamps-Vennes and Fournet-Blancheroche.
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes du Doubs. Volume 2, Flohic Editions, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-84234-087-6 , pp. 1184-1192.
