Le Bémont

Le Bémont

State :	Switzerland Switzerland
Canton :	Canton of Jura Law (JU)
District :	Franches-Montagnesw
BFS no. :	6741i1 f3 f4
Postal code :	2360
Coordinates :	567857 / 235 019 coordinates: 47 ° 15 '55 " N , 7 ° 0' 50" O ; CH1903: 567857 / 23501947.265283 7,013907 982
Height :	982 m above sea level M.
Height range :	913-1078 m above sea level M.
Area :	11.68 km²
Residents:	317 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	27 inhabitants per km²
Website:	lebemont.ch
Le Bémont
Location of the municipality
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Le Bémont (JU) is a municipality in the Franches-Montagnes district in the canton of Jura in Switzerland . The former German name Hübschenberg is no longer used today.

geography

Le Bémont is 982 m above sea level. M. , 1.5 km northeast of the district capital Saignelégier (air line). The former street line village extends on a slope sloping to the southeast on the Jura plateau of the Freiberg Mountains ( Franches Montagnes in French ).

The area of the 11.6 km² municipal area comprises a section of the gently undulating plateau of the Plateaujura, on which boggy, mostly above-ground drainage-free depressions alternate with limestone peaks . The northern boundary is near the steep drop to the Doubstal . To the south, the area of Le Bémont extends over extensive pasture areas and the altitude of Le Haut Bémont ( 1070 m above sea level ) to the nature reserve Étang des Royes . In the vicinity of the courtyards of Les Rouges-Terres is 1075 m above sea level. M. reached the highest point of the municipality. In 1997, 4% of the municipal area was in settlements, 26% in forests and woodlands, 69% in agriculture and around 1% was unproductive land.

Le Bémont includes the hamlets of La Bosse ( 949 m above sea level in a hollow north of the village), Les Communances ( 950 m above sea level ) and Les Cufattes ( 962 m above sea level ) in the depression south-east of Le Bémont, Les Rouges-Terres ( 1010 m above sea level ) at the next altitude, as well as several individual farms. Neighboring municipalities of Le Bémont are Saignelégier , Les Enfers and Montfaucon in the canton of Jura and Tramelan in the canton of Bern .

population

With 317 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2018), Le Bémont is one of the smaller municipalities in the canton of Jura. 97.4% of the residents are French-speaking and 2.3% German-speaking (as of 2000). The population of Le Bémont has halved since the second half of the 19th century (718 inhabitants in 1870, 522 in 1910).

economy

Le Bémont is a predominantly agricultural village with a lot of pasture land and important horse breeding . Outside of the primary sector, however, there are only a few jobs in local small businesses. Many workers are therefore commuters.

traffic

The municipality is located on the main road from Delémont to La Chaux-de-Fonds . On May 21, 1904, the railway line of the Régional Saignelégier – Glovelier , a predecessor of the Chemins de fer du Jura , opened with a train station in Le Bémont.

history

The village is first mentioned in 1330 as Le Belmont . It belonged to the dominion of Freiberge, which was subordinate to the Principality of Basel . From 1793 to 1815, Le Bémont 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

In the pasture north of the hamlet of La Bosse there is a chapel, newly built in 1898 in neo -Gothic style, which is dedicated to the nun Jeanne Froidevaux . Ecclesiastically, however, Le Bémont was dependent on Montfaucon until 1629 and since then on Saignelégier . Also worth seeing are the whitewashed typical farms of the High Jura with a large roof area. The uniform townscape of La Bosse, with its 17th to 19th century farmhouses, is one of the most beautiful in the canton of Jura.