Damvant

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Damvant
Damvant coat of arms
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Canton of JuraCanton of Jura Law (JU)
District : Porrentruyw
Municipal municipality : Haute ajoiei2
Postal code : 2914
former BFS no. : 6788
Coordinates : 559 216  /  247117 coordinates: 47 ° 22 '25 "  N , 6 ° 53' 55"  O ; CH1903:  five hundred fifty-nine thousand two hundred sixteen  /  247117
Height : 609  m above sea level M.
Area : 5.05  km²
Residents: 121 (December 31, 2007)
Population density : 24 inhabitants per km²
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Damvant (Switzerland)
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Parish before the merger on January 1st, 2009

Damvant ( French [ dɑ̃vɑ̃ ], in the local dialect [ (ɛ) dɛ̃ˈvɑ̃ ]) is a village and a former political municipality in the district of Porrentruy in the canton of Jura in Switzerland .

geography

Damvant lies at 609  m above sea level. M. , 14 km west-southwest of the district capital Porrentruy (air line). The former street line village extends in a wide hollow at the northern foot of the Jura chain of the Lomont , in the far west of the Ajoie (German Elsgau ).

The area of ​​the 5.1 km² former municipal area includes the Damvant basin, which does not contain any surface rivers. In the north the area extends to the ridge of the Perchet ( 705  m above sea level ). To the south, the community area extended to the relatively low ridge of the Lomont chain, on which at 755  m above sea level. M. the highest elevation of Damvant is. The Bois de Vaux is already on the other side of the ridge on the northern slope of the Doube valley . In 1997, 3% of the municipal area was accounted for by settlements, 42% for forests and woodlands and 55% for agriculture.

Several individual farms belong to Damvant. The community was surrounded on three sides by French territory. The neighboring communities of Damvant were Grandfontaine and Réclère in the canton of Jura and Vaufrey , Montjoie-le-Château , Villars-lès-Blamont and Dannemarie in France .

population

With 121 inhabitants (at the end of 2007) Damvant was one of the small communities in the canton of Jura. 91.9% of the residents are French-speaking, 5.2% German-speaking and 2.2% Italian-speaking (as of 2000). The population of Damvant was 357 in 1850, and 352 in 1900. Since then, the number of residents has decreased by around 60% due to strong emigration.

economy

Damvant is still predominantly agricultural , horse breeding is of particular importance . Outside of agriculture there are only a few jobs in the village. Many workers are therefore commuters and work in the Porrentruy region .

traffic

The former municipality is located on the cantonal road from Porrentruy across the border crossing from Damvant to Pont-de-Roide-Vermondans in France. The postbus course on the route from Porrentruy to Damvant connects the town to public transport.

history

Remains of a Gallo-Roman villa testify to an early settlement of the municipality. The village is first in 1346 as Danval / Dampna Walle certainly proves to 1360 as Dampvant . The place name probably derives from the Latin dominu 'Lord' and the name of a saint , perhaps Wala .

In the 13th and 14th centuries Damvant belonged to the rulership of Roche-d'Or , from the 16th to the 18th century to the Meieramt Chevenez , which was dependent on the Principality of Basel . From 1793 to 1815 Damvant 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. On January 1, 2009, the municipality was united with Chevenez, Réclère and Roche-d'Or to form the new municipality of Haute-Ajoie .

Attractions

The current parish church of Saint-Germain was built in 1745–47 on the foundations of the previous medieval building, it has a high altar in the classical style. Until 1780 Damvant formed a joint parish with Réclère. In the village there are still numerous characteristic farms from the 19th century with a large courtyard entrance. A specialty of Damvant are the three old village wells with circular water basins.

gallery

  • Saint Germain Church

  • Typical round fountain

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Wulf Müller / Florence Cattin / Andres Kristol, Damvant JU (Porrentruy) in: Dictionnaire toponymique des communes suisses - Lexicon of Swiss community names - Dizionario toponomastico dei comuni svizzeri (DTS | LSG) , Center de dialectologie, Université de Neuchâtel, publisher Huber, Frauenfeld / Stuttgart / Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-7193-1308-5 and Éditions Payot, Lausanne 2005, ISBN 2-601-03336-3 , p. 286f.