Noirmont

Geschichte

Le Noirmont is a municipality in the district of Franches-Montagnes in the canton of Jura in Switzerland.HistoryLe Noirmont is first mentioned in 1454 as Noirmont. The municipality was formerly known by its German name Schwarzenberg, however, that name is no longer used.GeographyLe Noirmont has an area of. Of this area, 10.34km2 or 50.7% is used for agricultural purposes, while 8.7km2 or 42.7% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 1.25km2 or 6.1% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.02km2 or 0.1% is either rivers or lakes and 0.12km2 or 0.6% is unproductive land.Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 3.0% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.2%. Out of the forested land, 37.7% of the total land area is heavily forested and 5.0% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 1.0% is used for growing crops and 31.4% is pastures and 18.2% is used for alpine pastures. All the water in the municipality is flowing water.The municipality is located in the Franches-Montagnes district, on a high plateau (elevation c. 1100m) that stretches to the Doubs river. It consists of the village of Le Noirmont and the hamlets of Les Barrières, Le Cerneux-Joly, Le Creux-des-Biches, Les Esserts, Le Peu-Péquignot, Sous-les-Craux and Les Côtes.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.