Bressaucourt is a former

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

in the district of Porrentruy in the

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of Jura in

Switzerland ). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...

. On 1 January 2013 the former municipality of Bressaucourt merged into the municipality of

Fontenais Fontenais is a municipality in the district of Porrentruy in the canton of Jura in Switzerland. On 1 January 2013 the former municipality of Bressaucourt merged into the municipality of Fontenais.Nomenklaturen – Amtliches Gemeindeverzeichnis der Schweiz
accessed 9 February 2013

History

Bressaucourt is first mentioned in 1139 as ''Bersalcurt''.

Geography

Before the merger, Bressaucourt had a total area of . Of this area, or 41.9% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 53.7% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 4.2% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.2% is either rivers or lakes and or 0.1% is unproductive land.
2009 data accessed 25 March 2010 Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 2.4% and transportation infrastructure made up 0.9%. Out of the forested land, 50.9% of the total land area is heavily forested and 2.8% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 21.6% is used for growing crops and 13.9% is pastures, while 1.4% is used for orchards or vine crops and 5.0% is used for alpine pastures. All the water in the municipality is flowing water. The former municipality is located in the Porrentruy district, on the

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border.

Climate

Coat of arms

The

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of the municipal

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is ''Azure, two Bugle-horns Or Strings interlaced Gules, on a Chief Argent a Dog Gules.''

Demographics

Bressaucourt has a population (as of 2010) of 416.Swiss Federal Statistical Office
accessed 9 February 2013 , 6.7% of the population are resident foreign nationals.
accessed 19 June 2010 Over the last 10 years (2000–2010) the population has changed at a rate of 6.1%. Migration accounted for 2.5%, while births and deaths accounted for 2.3%. Most of the population () speaks

(333 or 89.5%) as their first language,

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is the second most common (29 or 7.8%) and Italian is the third (2 or 0.5%). , the population was 49.4% male and 50.6% female. The population was made up of 189 Swiss men (45.3% of the population) and 17 (4.1%) non-Swiss men. There were 204 Swiss women (48.9%) and 7 (1.7%) non-Swiss women. Of the population in the municipality, 127 or about 34.1% were born in Bressaucourt and lived there in 2000. There were 122 or 32.8% who were born in the same canton, while 68 or 18.3% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 51 or 13.7% were born outside of Switzerland. , children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 28.5% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 58.1% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 13.4%. , there were 153 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 172 married individuals, 28 widows or widowers and 19 individuals who are divorced.STAT-TAB Datenwürfel für Thema 40.3 - 2000
accessed 2 February 2011 , there were 148 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.4 persons per household. There were 43 households that consist of only one person and 17 households with five or more people. , a total of 141 apartments (89.2% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 11 apartments (7.0%) were seasonally occupied and 6 apartments (3.8%) were empty.Swiss Federal Statistical Office STAT-TAB - Datenwürfel für Thema 09.2 - Gebäude und Wohnungen
accessed 28 January 2011 , the construction rate of new housing units was 9.6 new units per 1000 residents. The vacancy rate for the municipality, , was 3.37%. The historical population is given in the following chart: Colors= id:lightgrey value:gray(0.9) id:darkgrey value:gray(0.8) ImageSize = width:1080 height:210 PlotArea = height:150 left:100 bottom:50 right:100 AlignBars = justify DateFormat = x.y Period = from:0 till:510 TimeAxis = orientation:vertical AlignBars = justify ScaleMajor = gridcolor:darkgrey increment:100 start:0 ScaleMinor = gridcolor:lightgrey increment:20 start:0 PlotData= color:yellowgreen width:40 mark:(line,white) align:center bar:1770 from:start till:276 text:"276" bar:1818 from:start till:300 text:"300" bar:1850 from:start till:410 text:"410" bar:1860 from:start till:399 text:"399" bar:1870 from:start till:450 text:"450" bar:1880 from:start till:452 text:"452" bar:1888 from:start till:488 text:"488" bar:1900 from:start till:506 text:"506" bar:1910 from:start till:434 text:"434" bar:1920 from:start till:424 text:"424" bar:1930 from:start till:381 text:"381" bar:1941 from:start till:380 text:"380" bar:1950 from:start till:354 text:"354" bar:1960 from:start till:398 text:"398" bar:1970 from:start till:391 text:"391" bar:1980 from:start till:350 text:"350" bar:1990 from:start till:357 text:"357" bar:2000 from:start till:372 text:"372"

Politics

In the

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the most popular party was the

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which received 50% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the FDP (18.37%), the CVP (17.69%) and the SVP (12.24%). In the federal election, a total of 150 votes were cast, and the

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was 51.0%.

Economy

, Bressaucourt had an unemployment rate of 1.2%. , there were 20 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 9 businesses involved in this sector. 12 people were employed in the

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and there were 3 businesses in this sector. 11 people were employed in the tertiary sector, with 8 businesses in this sector. There were 172 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 47.7% of the workforce. the total number of

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jobs was 36. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 15, all of which were in agriculture. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 12 of which 6 or (50.0%) were in manufacturing and 6 (50.0%) were in construction. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 9. In the tertiary sector; 3 or 33.3% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 1 was in a hotel or restaurant, 2 or 22.2% were in education. , there were 9 workers who commuted into the municipality and 135 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 15.0 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering.Swiss Federal Statistical Office - Statweb
accessed 24 June 2010 Of the working population, 7.6% used public transportation to get to work, and 73.3% used a private car.

Religion

From the , 251 or 67.5% were

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, while 62 or 16.7% belonged to the

Swiss Reformed Church The Protestant Church in Switzerland (PCS), (EKS); french: Église évangélique réformée de Suisse (EERS); it, Chiesa evangelica riformata in Svizzera (CERiS); rm, Baselgia evangelica refurmada da la Svizra (BRRS) formerly named Federation o ...

. Of the rest of the population, there was 1 member of an Orthodox church, and there were 8 individuals (or about 2.15% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There was 1 individual who was

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ic. There were 2 individuals who were

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. 38 (or about 10.22% of the population) belonged to no church, are

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, and 13 individuals (or about 3.49% of the population) did not answer the question.

Education

In Bressaucourt about 118 or (31.7%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 41 or (11.0%) have completed additional higher education (either

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or a ''

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''). Of the 41 who completed tertiary schooling, 43.9% were Swiss men, 41.5% were Swiss women, 12.2% were non-Swiss men. The Canton of Jura school system provides two year of non-obligatory

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, followed by six years of Primary school. This is followed by three years of obligatory lower Secondary school where the students are separated according to ability and aptitude. Following the lower Secondary students may attend a three or four year optional upper Secondary school followed by some form of Tertiary school or they may enter an

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. During the 2009-10 school year, there were no students attending school in Bressaucourt. , there were 2 students in Bressaucourt who came from another municipality, while 35 residents attended schools outside the municipality.

References

External links

* {{Authority control Former municipalities of the canton of Jura