Fontenais

Geschichte

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.HistoryFontenais is first mentioned in 1148 as Fonteneis.GeographyFontenais has an area of. Of this area, 5.11km2 or 48.7% is used for agricultural purposes, while 4.56km2 or 43.5% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 0.78km2 or 7.4% is settled (buildings or roads) and 0.04km2 or 0.4% is unproductive land.Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 4.9% and transportation infrastructure made up 1.6%. Out of the forested land, 41.8% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.6% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 27.5% is used for growing crops and 19.0% is pastures, while 1.1% is used for orchards or vine crops and 1.1% is used for alpine pastures.The municipality is located in the Porrentruy district, south of the city of Porrentruy. It stretches across a small valley to the slopes of the surrounding mountains, where the main village developed. It consists of the village of Fontenais and the hamlet of Villars-sur-Fontenais as well as scattered farm houses. Somewhere on the Le Chételat hill, the remains of an 11th-century castle are supposedly buried.Coat of armsThe blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Azure, a Fountain Argent, and on a Chief Or two Mullets Gules. The fountain (fontaine) is an example of canting.