Courtedoux

Geschichte

Courtedoux is a municipality in the district of Porrentruy of the Canton of Jura, Switzerland.HistoryCourtedoux is first mentioned in 814 as Curtis Udulphi.GeographyCourtedoux has an area of. Of this area, 4.27km2 or 51.9% is used for agricultural purposes, while 3.08km2 or 37.5% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 0.8km2 or 9.7% is settled (buildings or roads).Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 3.5% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.7%. Power and water infrastructure as well as other special developed areas made up 2.9% of the area Out of the forested land, 35.8% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.7% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 29.7% is used for growing crops and 19.5% is pastures and 2.2% is used for alpine pastures.The municipality is located in the Porrentruy district, on a rise above the Creugenat valley.Coat of armsThe blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Or, three Piles issuant from sinister shortened Azure, and on a chief of the last a Wolf passant of the first langued and armed Gules.DemographicsCourtedoux has a population of., 5.8% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (2000–2010) the population has changed at a rate of -3.1%. Migration accounted for 0.1%, while births and deaths accounted for -3.5%.Most of the population speaks French (709 or 95.9%) as their first language, German is the second most common (18 or 2.4%) and Portuguese is the third (4 or 0.5%). There are 3 people who speak Italian and 1 person who speaks Romansh.