Rebévelier

Rebévelier
State :	Switzerland
Canton :	Bern (BE)
Administrative district :	Bernese Jura
BFS no. :	0715
Postal code :	2717
Coordinates :	581426  /  238048 coordinates: 47 ° 17 '35 "  N , 7 ° 11' 35"  O ; CH1903:  581426  /  238048
Height :	960  m above sea level M.
Height range :	771-1074 m above sea level M.
Area :	3.55  km²
Residents:	41 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	12 inhabitants per km²
Proportion of foreigners : (residents without citizenship )	0.0% (2,011)
Location of the municipality

Rebévelier is a predominantly German-speaking political municipality in the Bernese Jura administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland . Nevertheless, the former German name Ruppertswiler is no longer used today.

geography

Rebévelier is 960  m above sea level. M. , 14 kilometers west of Moutier (beeline). The farming village extends on a slope of the Kettenjura, sloping slightly to the north, west of the Pichoux Gorge, high above the Undervelier valley basin.

The area of ​​the 3.5 km² municipal area covers the height of a Jura chain in the extreme north-east of the Franches-Montagnes region ( Freiberge in German ). The southern border runs over the height of Prés Jean de Souboz , which is 1075  m above sea level. M. forms the highest point of Rebévelier. Here there are extensive Jura high pastures with the typical mighty spruce trees , which either stand individually or in groups. Two brooks have carved erosion valleys (including Les Effondras ) in the northern slope of this chain . In the far east the area extends to the edge of the Pichoux Gorge. In 1997, 1% of the municipal area was accounted for by settlements, 40% by forests and woodlands and 59% by agriculture.

The hamlet of Cerniers de Rebévelier belongs to Rebévelier , at 1030  m above sea level. M. lies on the crest of the Jura chain. Neighboring municipalities to Rebévelier are Petit-Val in the canton of Bern and Lajoux , Saulcy and Undervelier in the canton of Jura .

population

With 41 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2018), Rebévelier is one of the smallest communities in the Bernese Jura . The population is roughly equally divided between the two hamlets of Rebévelier and Cerniers de Rebévelier. 66.7% of the residents are German-speaking and 33.3% French-speaking (as of 2000). The population of Rebévelier was 112 inhabitants in 1850, and 76 in 1900. A further decline was recorded during the 20th century.

Population development
year	1850	1880	1900	1930	1950	1980	1990	2000	2010
Residents	112	96	76	58	52	50	43	30th	47

politics

The voting shares of the parties in the 2015 National Council election were: SVP 60.8%, SP 8.7%, EPP 7.0%, BDP 6.1%, GPS 4.5%, EDU 4.5%, CVP 4.5 %, PdA 3.5%, glp 0.3%, FDP 0.0%.

economy

Rebévelier still makes a living from agriculture today , with dairy farming and cattle breeding predominating. Outside the primary sector there are no jobs in the village.

traffic

The community is far away from the larger thoroughfares. It can be reached by a spur road that branches off from the cantonal road Bellelay –Lajoux. Rebévelier has no connection to the public transport network. The next stop on the Postbus course, which runs from Tavannes via Lajoux to Les Genevez , is in Fornet-Dessous, around 2.5 km away.

history

The village was first mentioned in 1181 under the name Robervilier . Rebévelier was part of the Courtine de Bellelay and the Prévôté Moutier-Grandval , making it part of the Principality of Basel . In addition, the Prévôté Moutier-Grandval had a very close castle rights agreement with the city of Bern since 1486 . A noble family is mentioned as early as the 13th and 14th centuries. A document from 1491 names the Abbot of Bellelay as the fiefdom and a Ruedi Juillerat as the fiefdom. The Juillerat family determined the fate of the village for the next 400 years. Ecclesiastically, Rebévelier belonged to the parish of Sapran until the Reformation in 1531 , after which it was assigned to the parish Undervelier, while the hamlet of Cerniers de Rebévelier came to the parish of Saulcy. After the local Juillerat had moved into the valleys, the Amstutz settled in the 18th century. The Prince-Bishop of Basel allowed the Mennonites , who were persecuted in their old home in the Bernese Oberland , to settle at over 800 meters , also for economic reasons . At the end of the 19th century, Rebébelier changed from a predominantly Catholic and French-speaking community to a Mennonite and German-speaking community. In 1797, the Bellelay monastery was occupied and secularized by French troops. As a result, France annexed the Principality of Basel and Rebévelier became part of the Mont-Terrible department in 1798 , and from 1800 it was connected to the Haut-Rhin department . Through the decision of the Congress of Vienna , the place came to the canton of Bern to the district of Delémont in 1815 . As a border municipality in the Delémont district, Rebévelier decided in a referendum on September 7, 1975 against the creation of the canton of Jura. Rebévelier was the only municipality that moved from the Delémont district to the Moutier district in 1976 and thus remained with the canton of Bern.

Web links

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

• Christine Gagnebin-Diacon: Rebévelier. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Permanent resident population from STAT-TAB of the BfS , municipalities see also regional portraits 2020 on bfs.admin.ch, accessed on May 29, 2020
2. ↑ Population growth continues . Press release. Federal Statistical Office . April 26, 2012. Retrieved July 17, 2012.
3. ^ Results of the Rebévelier commune. State Chancellery of the Canton of Bern, October 18, 2015, accessed on April 17, 2016 . 
4. ↑ https://hls-dhs-dss.ch/de/articles/000428/2012-03-22/
5. ↑ https://www.zimmerleuten-bern.ch/befreundete-einrichtungen/einwohnergemeinde-rebevelier/