Montignez

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Montignez
Montignez coat of arms
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Canton of JuraCanton of Jura Law (JU)
District : Porrentruyw
Municipal municipality : Basse-Allainei2
Postal code : 2924
former BFS no. : 6796
Coordinates : 571445  /  259 707 coordinates: 47 ° 29 '15 "  N , 7 ° 3' 35"  O ; CH1903:  571445  /  259707
Height : 421  m above sea level M.
Area : 5.80  km²
Residents: 243 (December 31, 2007)
Population density : 42 inhabitants per km²
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Montignez (Switzerland)
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Parish before the merger on January 1st, 2009

Montignez ( French [ mɔ̃tiɲe ], in the local dialect [ (a) mũtˈɲe ]) is a village and a former political municipality in the district of Porrentruy in the Swiss canton of Jura .

geography

Historic aerial photo by Werner Friedli (1910–1996) from September 12, 1950

Montignez is 421  m above sea level. M. , eight kilometers north of the district capital Porrentruy (air line). The farming village extends in a wide hollow on the Tafeljura plateau east of the Allainetal , in the extreme north of the Ajoie (German Elsgau ) on the border with France .

The area of ​​the 5.9 km² former municipal area includes in the central part the hollow of the dry valley of Montignez, which opens up to the Coeuvatte brook . In the north the area extends to the eastern slope of Mont Renaud , in the east to the height of Les Genavrires and in the south to the height of Chênois , at 485  m above sea level. M. is the highest point of Montignez. To the south-west, the municipality extended over the forest heights of Les Réchennes to the Allaine valley. In 1997, 4% of the municipal area was accounted for by settlements, 38% for forests and trees and 58% for agriculture.

The parts of the hamlet of Grandgourt ( 389  m above sea level ) to the right of the Allaine and several individual farms belong to Montignez . The neighboring municipalities of Montignez are Buix , Courtemaîche , Damphreux and Lugnez in the canton of Jura and Courcelles in neighboring France.

population

With 243 inhabitants (at the end of 2007), Montignez was one of the small communities in the canton of Jura. 91.2% of the residents are French-speaking, 6.8% German-speaking and 0.8% Portuguese-speaking (as of 2000). The population of Montignez was 357 in 1850 and 318 in 1900. There was an overall downward trend over the course of the 20th century.

economy

Thanks to the fertile soils in the area, Montignez is still predominantly agricultural . There are some jobs in precision workshops and in local small businesses . However, many employed people are commuters and work in Boncourt or in the Porrentruy region .

traffic

The former municipality is located on the cantonal road that leads from Buix along the northern border of the Ajoie to Lugnez and Beurnevésin . The village is connected to public transport by a Postbus course that runs between the train station in Courtemaîche and Montignez.

history

The place is mentioned for the first time as early as 731 or 732: Actum Montaniaco vico . Around 1170 the place name appears as Mont Teignei , 1189 as Montegnez ; it goes back to a derivation of the Latin personal name Montanius with the Celtic place name suffix -akos / -acum . Montignez and the Grandgourt Priory owned the Bellelay Monastery . It shared the eventful history of Ajoie, which came to the Principality of Basel for the first time in 1271 . From the 16th to the 18th century, the village was under the Meieramt Coeuve . From 1793 to 1815 Montignez 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. On January 1, 2009, the municipality was combined with Buix and Courtemaîche to form the new municipality of Basse-Allaine .

Attractions

The parish church of Saint-Martin has a late Gothic choir. The church was extensively restored in 1778 and has a bell tower that was built in 1868 in a mixture of neoclassic and neo-Gothic styles . The three altars were moved here from the Grandgourt Priory and were made by Jean-Pierre Breton (1738). In the center there are numerous farmhouses from the 19th century as well as some half-timbered houses in the Alsatian style.

  • Ancien Prieuré de Grancourt

  • church

  • Church window

  • school

  • Route de Buix

  • Route de Grandcourt

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Nicolas Pépin / Andres Kristol, Montignez 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. 611.