Les Enfers

Geschichte

Les Enfers is a municipality in the district of Franches-Montagnes in the canton of Jura in Switzerland.HistoryLes Enfers is first mentioned in 1330 as Au cruz des Enfers.GeographyLes Enfers has an area of. Of this area, 3.46km2 or 48.5% is used for agricultural purposes, while 3.41km2 or 47.8% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 0.19km2 or 2.7% is settled (buildings or roads) and 0.03km2 or 0.4% is unproductive land.Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 1.3% and transportation infrastructure made up 1.0%. Out of the forested land, 44.7% of the total land area is heavily forested and 3.1% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 8.0% is used for growing crops and 25.6% is pastures and 14.8% is used for alpine pastures.The municipality is located in the Franches-Montagnes district. It consists of the village of Les Enfers and the hamlet of Cerniévillers.The municipalities of Le Bémont, Les Bois, Les Breuleux, La Chaux-des-Breuleux, Les Enfers, Les Genevez, Lajoux, Montfaucon, Muriaux, Le Noirmont, Saignelégier, Saint-Brais and Soubey are considering a merger on at a date in the future into the new municipality of Franches-Montagnes.