Charmoille JU

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JU is the abbreviation for the canton of Jura in Switzerland and is used to avoid confusion with other entries of the name Charmoillef .
Charmoille
Charmoille coat of arms
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Canton of JuraCanton of Jura Law (JU)
District : Porrentruyw
Municipal municipality : La Barochei2
Postal code : 2947
former BFS no. : 6779
Coordinates : 582520  /  252715 coordinates: 47 ° 25 '30 "  N , 7 ° 12' 25"  O ; CH1903:  582520  /  252715
Height : 515  m above sea level M.
Area : 9.20  km²
Residents: 344 (December 31, 2007)
Population density : 37 inhabitants per km²
Charmoille

Charmoille
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Charmoille JU (Switzerland)
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Parish before the merger on January 1st, 2009

Charmoille ( French [ ʃaʀˈmwaj ], in the local dialect [ ʧɛ̝rmwaj / (ɛ) ʧɛrˈmwɛj ]; Ger . Kalmis / Galmis ) is a town and a former political municipality in the Porrentruy district of the Jura canton in Switzerland .

geography

Charmoille lies at 515  m above sea level. M. , ten kilometers east of the district capital Porrentruy (air line). The former street line village extends on the upper Allaine on the eastern edge of the Ajoie (German Elsgau ), at the foot of the chain Jura .

The area of ​​the 9.2 km² former municipal area includes the headwaters of the Allaine in the hilly landscape of the northern Jura between the heights of Les Aidjolats ( 787  m above sea level ) in the south and Mont Perrou ( 765  m above sea level ), Morimont ( 751  m above sea level ) and Mont de Miserez ( 658  m above sea level ) in the north. These heights form the watershed between the catchment areas of the Rhine and Rhone . In its western section, the municipality extends into the intensively cultivated plain of the eastern Ajoie. In 1997, 4% of the municipal area was accounted for by settlements, 54% for forests and woodlands and 42% for agriculture.

Charmoille includes the former Miserez priory , 508  m above sea level. M. located in the plain at the southern foot of Mont de Miserez, the hamlet of La Touillère in the valley of the Allaine east of Charmoille and several individual farms. The neighboring municipalities of Charmoille were Pleigne , Pleujouse , Fregiécourt and Miécourt in the canton of Jura and Levoncourt , Oberlarg and Lucelle in neighboring France .

population

With 344 inhabitants (at the end of 2007) Charmoille was one of the smaller communities in the canton of Jura. 89.0% of the residents are French-speaking, 8.9% German-speaking and 1.2% Italian-speaking (as of 2000). The population of Charmoille was 599 in 1850 and 512 in 1900. In the course of the 20th century, the population decreased continuously.

economy

Charmoille is still dominated by agriculture thanks to the fertile soils in the area . Fruit growing is also important, especially the cherries from which Charmoille's cherry schnapps is made. There are also some jobs in local small businesses. However, many workers are commuters and work in the Porrentruy or Delémont regions.

traffic

Charmoille is located on the international road from Porrentruy via Lucelle to Laufen . At the top of the pass between Charmoille and Lucelle is the junction of the road to Ferrette in Alsace . The village is connected to public transport by two postbus courses, one from Porrentruy to Asuel , the other from Porrentruy to Lucelle.

history

Saint-Etienne church in Charmoille

The village is 1136/39 as C (h) almillis mentioned in 1173 as Charmayles . The place name probably goes back to a deminutive * calmicula in late Latin calmis , 'undeveloped / barren land'. Finds of the remains of a Gallo-Roman villa near Miserez indicate an early settlement of the municipality.

Hugues came from the noble family of Charmoille and was one of the founders of the Lucelle monastery in the first half of the 12th century. Charmoille shared the checkered history of Ajoie, which came to the Principality of Basel for the first time in 1271 . The village belonged to the Meieramt Alle from the 16th to the 18th century . The village was partially destroyed during the Thirty Years War . From 1793 to 1815 Charmoille 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. With effect from January 1, 2009, the municipality was merged with Asuel , Fregiécourt , Miécourt and Pleujouse to form the new municipality of La Baroche .

Attractions

The Saint-Etienne church dates from 1760, but was later renovated several times. The parish of Charmoille, which is also called La Baroche , was the first of the Ajoie in 1779 to be directly subordinate to the Bishop of Basel. The former school, a building from 1854, represents the neoclassical style and is equipped with a hipped roof and tower. In the village there are still characteristic farmhouses from the 19th century.

Web links

Commons : Charmoille JU  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Florence Cattin, Charmoille 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. 234.
  2. ↑ fructus.ch: Inventory of fruit and berry varieties inventory Switzerland ( Memento of the original from October 8, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Accessed July 19, 2009  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fructus.ch