Les Pommerats

State :

Switzerland

Canton :

Law (JU)

District :

Franches-Montagnes

Municipal municipality :

Saignelégier

Postal code :

2353

former BFS no. :

6756

Coordinates :

565 759 / 235834 coordinates: 47 ° 16 '21 " N , 6 ° 59' 10" O ; CH1903: five hundred sixty-five thousand seven hundred and fifty-nine / 235834

Height :

889 m above sea level M.

Area :

11.51 km²

Residents:

252 (December 31, 2007)

Population density :

22 inhabitants per km²

map

Parish before the merger on January 1st, 2009

Until December 31, 2008, Les Pommerats was a municipality in the Franches-Montagnes district of the canton of Jura in Switzerland .

With effect from January 1, 2009, it merged with Goumois and Saignelégier to form the municipality of Saignelégier . The former German name Bresselerwalden is no longer used today.

geography

Les Pommerats is 899 m above sea level. M. , two kilometers north-northwest of the district capital Saignelégier (air line). The village extends on a terrace of the northern Freiberge (French Freiberge ), at the edge of the deep valley of the Doubs .

The area of the 11.5 km² former municipal area includes in the southern and eastern part a section of the gently undulating plateau of the Plateaujura , on which boggy, mostly above-ground drainage-free depressions alternate with limestone peaks . In the southeast was at the height of Le Haut Bémont with 1072 m above sea level. M. reached the highest point of Les Pommerats. The western and north-western border ran in the area of the steep drop to the canyon-like Doubstal cut into the Plateau Jura. To the north, the municipality extended over the Côte de Sciet and the rocky outcrop of the Château Cugny on the right flank of the valley down to the Doubs, the course of which formed the border with France . In 1997, 2% of the municipal area was in settlements, 59% in forests and woodlands, 38% in agriculture and a little less than 1% was unproductive land.

Several individual farms belonged to Les Pommerats. The neighboring communities of Les Pommerats were Goumois , Muriaux , Saignelégier , Le Bémont , Les Enfers and Soubey in the canton of Jura and Indevillers in neighboring France .

population

With 252 inhabitants (end of 2007), Les Pommerats is one of the small communities in the canton of Jura. 92.2% of the residents are French-speaking, 7.4% German-speaking and 0.4% Spanish-speaking (as of 2000). Since 1870 (then more than 450 inhabitants) the population of Les Pommerats has decreased significantly. After the number of inhabitants had in the meantime been less than 200 people, a slightly increasing trend has been recorded since 1980.

economy

Les Pommerats is a still heavily agricultural village with dairy farming and cattle breeding . Outside of the primary sector, there are also jobs in the village in the watchmaking sector and in local small businesses. However, many employed people are commuters and work mainly in the neighboring village of Saignelégier.

traffic

Les Pommerats is off the main thoroughfares, but can be easily reached from Saignelégier. The Postbus course, which runs from Tramelan via Saignelégier to Goumois, makes a detour to the village center of Les Pommerats.

history

The first mention of Les Pommerats goes back to 1337 . The village belonged to the dominion of Freiberge, which was subordinate to the Principality of Basel . From 1793 to 1815 Les Pommerats belonged to France and was initially part of the Département du Mont-Terrible , from 1800 it was linked 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. After the electorate approved the merger proposal in June 2007, Les Pommerats, Goumois and Saignelégier merged with effect from January 1, 2009 to form the new municipality of Saignelégier.

Attractions

The parish church of Saint-Pierre-et-Paul was built in the years 1784–86. Les Pommerats was dependent on the parish of Montfaucon until 1626 , then on Saignelégier until the church was built .

Saintes Pierre et Paul church
graveyard
Primary school building
formerly Hotel Cheval Blanc
Well with three basins
Farmhouse

Web links

François Kohler: Pommerats, Les. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .