Bressaucourt is a former
municipality
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate.
The term ''municipality' ...
in the district of
Porrentruy
Porrentruy (; ; ) is a Swiss municipality and seat of the district of the same name located in the canton of Jura.
Porrentruy is home to National League team, HC Ajoie.
History
The first trace of human presence in Porrentruy is a Mesolit ...
in the
canton of
Jura in
Switzerland
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. On 1 January 2013 the former municipality of Bressaucourt merged into the municipality of
Fontenais
Fontenais is a municipalities of Switzerland, municipality in the district of Porrentruy (district), Porrentruy in the Cantons of Switzerland, canton of Jura (canton), Jura in Switzerland. On 1 January 2013 the former municipality of Bressaucourt ...
.
[Nomenklaturen – Amtliches Gemeindeverzeichnis der Schweiz]
accessed 9 February 2013
History
Bressaucourt is first mentioned in 1139 as ''Bersalcurt''.
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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[
The former municipality is located in the Porrentruy district, on the French border.
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Climate
Coat of arms
The blazon
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of the municipal coat of arms
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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[
Most of the population () speaks French (333 or 89.5%) as their first language, ]German
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**Germania (Roman era)
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is the second most common (29 or 7.8%) and Italian
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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:]
Politics
In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SPS 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 voter turnout
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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 secondary sector
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and there were 3 businesses in this sector. 11 people were employed in the tertiary sector
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, 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 ]full-time equivalent
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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.[
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Religion
From the , 251 or 67.5% were Roman Catholic
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, while 62 or 16.7% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church
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. 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 Islam
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ic. There were 2 individuals who were Buddhist
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. 38 (or about 10.22% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic
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or atheist
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, and 13 individuals (or about 3.49% of the population) did not answer the question.[
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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 university
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or a ''Fachhochschule
A (; plural ), abbreviated FH, is a university of applied sciences (UAS), in other words a Hochschule, German tertiary education institution that provides professional education in many applied sciences and applied arts, such as engineering, te ...
''). 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 ]Kindergarten
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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 apprenticeship
Apprenticeship is a system for training a potential new practitioners of a trade or profession with on-the-job training and often some accompanying study. Apprenticeships may also enable practitioners to gain a license to practice in a regulat ...
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Former municipalities of the canton of Jura