Miécourt

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Miécourt
Miécourt coat of arms
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Canton of JuraCanton of Jura Law (JU)
District : Porrentruyw
Municipal municipality : La Barochei2
Postal code : 2946
former BFS no. : 6794
Coordinates : 580216  /  253185 coordinates: 47 ° 25 '45 "  N , 7 ° 10' 35"  O ; CH1903:  580216  /  253185
Height : 479  m above sea level M.
Area : 6.46  km²
Residents: 426 (December 31, 2007)
Population density : 66 inhabitants per km²
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Miécourt (Switzerland)
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Parish before the merger on January 1st, 2009

Miécourt ( French [ mjekuʀ ], in the native dialect [ mjekɔ ]; German Mieschdorf ) is a village and a former political municipality in the Porrentruy district of the Swiss canton of Jura .

geography

Miécourt lies at 479  m above sea level. M. , eight kilometers east of the district capital Porrentruy (air line). The clustered village stretches across the plain on both sides of the canalized Allaine , at the southwestern foot of the Montagne de Miserez , in the Baroche, in the east of the Ajoie (German Elsgau ).

The area of ​​the 6.5 km² former municipal area includes in the southern section a plain through which the Allaine flows, with the Fregiécourt brook forming the southern border. In the north, the area extends to the gently undulating table Jura landscape of the eastern Ajoie (up to 527  m above sea level ) and in the northeast to the slope of the Montagne de Miserez (at 590  m above sea level, the highest elevation in Miécourt). About this wooded hill which runs watershed between the basins of the Rhine and Rhone . In 1997, 7% of the municipal area was accounted for by settlements, 24% for forests and woodlands and 69% for agriculture.

Several individual farms belong to Miécourt. Neighboring communities of Miécourt were Vendlincourt , Alle , Cornol , Fregiécourt and Charmoille in the canton of Jura and Levoncourt in neighboring France .

population

With 426 inhabitants (at the end of 2007) Miécourt was one of the smaller communities in the canton of Jura. 92.2% of the residents are French-speaking, 5.9% German-speaking and 0.7% Portuguese-speaking (as of 2000). The population of Miécourt was 524 in 1850 and 481 in 1900. In the course of the 20th century, the population always fluctuated between 400 and 490 people.

economy

Miécourt is still dominated by agriculture thanks to the fertile soils in the area . Some jobs are in watchmaking , in precision engineering workshops and in local small businesses. However, many workers are commuters and work in the Porrentruy region .

traffic

Miécourt is on the international road from Porrentruy via Lucelle to Laufen . A cantonal road leads from Miécourt across the border into Alsace . The village is connected to public transport by a postbus course that runs from Porrentruy to Lucelle.

Parish church

history

Documents from the years 866 and 884 mention curtem que Mietiam ( in Alsgaugensi comitatu ) for the first time ; The place name appears from the 12th century as Miecurt (h) / Miecourt / Miecort / Miekort , in the 13th / 14th. Century also as Myenstorf / Miesdorf / Migenstorff . It is probably a combination of the Old High German personal name Miezo and Rom. Corte 'Hof, Landgut, Weiler', which comes at the end as a basic word, probably under Germanic influence, contrary to the word order typical of Romance compounds .

Miécourt belonged to the Alsatian von Spechbach family and came to the Duchy of Basel in 1625 . The village was under the Meieramt Alle from the 16th to the 18th century . It was partially destroyed during the Thirty Years War . From 1793 to 1815 Miécourt 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 Asuel , Charmoille , Fregiécourt and Pleujouse to form the new municipality of La Baroche .

Attractions

Today's parish church was built in 1769–72 on the foundations of a previous building. It contains rich furnishings , including a valuable main altar, a rococo- style pulpit and baroque sculptures. Until 1611 Miécourt belonged to the parish of Charmoille .

In the center of Miécourt, a rectangle through which the Allaine flows, stately farmhouses from the 18th and 19th centuries have been preserved.

  • Rue de l'Allaine

  • Route de Cornol

  • farm

  • church

  • reformed Church

  • Miécourt Castle

Web links

Commons : Miécourt  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Nicolas Pépin / Andres Kristol, Miécourt 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, Verlag Huber, Frauenfeld / Stuttgart / Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-7193-1308-5 and Éditions Payot, Lausanne 2005, ISBN 2-601-03336-3 , p. 596f.