Rocourt JU

JU is the abbreviation for the canton of Jura in Switzerland and is used to avoid confusion with other entries of the name Rocourt .

Rocourt

State :

Switzerland

Canton :

Law (JU)

District :

Porrentruy

Municipal municipality :

Haute ajoie

Postal code :

2907

former BFS no. :

6803

Coordinates :

563528 / 248942 coordinates: 47 ° 23 '25 " N , 6 ° 57' 20" O ; CH1903: 563528 / 248942

Height :

508 m above sea level M.

Area :

4.48 km²

Residents:

156 (December 31, 2017)

Population density :

35 inhabitants per km²

Website:

www.hauteajoie.ch

Bas du village (Unterdorf)

map

Parish before the merger on January 1, 2018

Rocourt was a municipality in the Porrentruy district of the canton of Jura in Switzerland until December 31, 2017 .

geography

Rocourt is 508 m above sea level. M. , nine kilometers west-southwest of the district capital Porrentruy (air line). The farming village extends in an approximately 500 m wide valley at the northern foot of the Lomont Jura chain , in the southwest of the Ajoie (German Elsgau ).

The central section of the 4.5 km² municipal area included the dry valley of Rocourt. In the north, the area extends to the Tafeljura plateau of the western Ajoie (up to 570 m above sea level ). To the south, the community area extends to the northern slope of the Lomont chain below Roche-d'Or, where it is 750 m above sea level. M. reached the highest point of Rocourt. The eastern boundary is the Fond de Vaux valley . The area is karstified and shows no surface rivers. In 1997, 4% of the municipal area was accounted for by settlements, 37% for forests and trees and 59% for agriculture.

The village of Coinat ( 540 m above sea level ) south of the village and several individual farms belonged to the community of Rocourt . Rocourt's neighboring communities were Grandfontaine , Fahy and Haute-Ajoie .

population

With 156 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2017) Rocourt was one of the small communities in the canton of Jura. 91.6% of the residents are French-speaking and 7.8% German-speaking (as of 2000). The population of Rocourt was 272 in 1850 and 232 in 1900. There was an overall downward trend over the course of the 20th century.

economy

Rocourt is an agricultural village thanks to the fertile soils of the area . In addition to local small businesses, the place hardly offers any jobs outside of the primary sector. Many workers are therefore commuters and work mainly in the Porrentruy region .

traffic

Rocourt is located on the cantonal road from Porrentruy across the border crossing from Damvant to Pont-de-Roide-Vermondans in France . Rocourt is connected to public transport through the Postbus course, which runs on the route from Porrentruy to Damvant. In addition to this regular bus line, Rocourt has a flexible on-call bus system (Public Car) that has been offered throughout the Ajoie since 1997.

history

Aerial photo (1950)

The village was first mentioned in 1148 as a Rocort . The name probably goes back to the Germanic personal name Radulf . The village belonged to the Lords of Rocourt, whose castle no longer exists today. When these died out, Rocourt fell to the Duchy of Basel . From the 16th to the 18th century the village belonged to the Meieramt Chevenez . On the night of June 4th to 5th, 1785, numerous houses fell victim to a conflagration. From 1793 to 1815 Rocourt 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.

Attractions

The parish church of Saint-François-Xavier was built in 1857 on the foundations of a previous building. Before this church was built, Rocourt belonged to the parish of Grandfontaine . In the town center there are still numerous characteristic farmhouses from the 18th and 19th centuries.

Saint-François-Xavier church
school

Web links

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

Information about Rocourt in the Juranet (French)
Dominique Prongué / CBA: Rocourt. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .