Courtételle

Geschichte

Courtételle is a municipality in the district of Delémont in the canton of Jura in Switzerland.HistoryCourtételle is first mentioned in 1178 as Curtetele.GeographyCourtételle has an area of. Of this area, 7.55km2 or 55.6% is used for agricultural purposes, while 4.87km2 or 35.9% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 1.11km2 or 8.2% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.04km2 or 0.3% is either rivers or lakes and 0.01km2 or 0.1% is unproductive land.Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 4.2% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.3%. Out of the forested land, 32.9% of the total land area is heavily forested and 3.0% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 31.8% is used for growing crops and 14.4% is pastures and 8.5% is used for alpine pastures. All the water in the municipality is flowing water.The municipality is located in the Delemont district, above Delemont on the right bank of the Sorne river. It consists of the village of Courtételle and a number of scattered hamlets and farm houses.The municipalities of Bourrignon, Châtillon, Courrendlin, Courtételle, Delémont, Ederswiler, Mettembert, Movelier, Pleigne, Rebeuvelier, Rossemaison and Vellerat are considering a merger on at a date in the future into the new municipality with an, undetermined name.