Courfaivre

Geschichte

Courfaivre is a former municipality in the district of Delémont in the canton of Jura in Switzerland. On 1 January 2013 the former municipalities of Bassecourt, Courfaivre, Glovelier, Soulce and Undervelier merged to form the new municipality of Haute-Sorne.HistoryCourfaivre is first mentioned in 1147 as Curfavro.GeographyCourfaivre had an area of. Of this area, 6.33km2 or 51.0% is used for agricultural purposes, while 4.91km2 or 39.6% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 1.04km2 or 8.4% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.07km2 or 0.6% is either rivers or lakes and 0.06km2 or 0.5% is unproductive land.Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 4.2% and transportation infrastructure made up 3.1%. Out of the forested land, 37.0% of the total land area is heavily forested and 2.6% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 29.0% is used for growing crops and 16.9% is pastures and 4.5% is used for alpine pastures. All the water in the municipality is flowing water.The former municipality is located in the Delemont district, on the Delemont-Glovelier road on the right bank of the Sorne river.Coat of armsThe blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Gules bordered Or, a Cat Argent sejant guardant.