Saint-Brais

Geschichte

Saint-Brais is a municipality in the district of Franches-Montagnes in the canton of Jura in Switzerland.HistorySaint-Brais is first mentioned in 1275 as Sem Bris. The municipality was formerly known by its German name St Brix, however, that name is no longer used.GeographySaint-Brais has an area of. Of this area, 7.54km2 or 49.8% is used for agricultural purposes, while 6.82km2 or 45.0% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 0.55km2 or 3.6% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.17km2 or 1.1% is either rivers or lakes and 0.05km2 or 0.3% is unproductive land.Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 1.4% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.1%. Out of the forested land, 41.5% of the total land area is heavily forested and 3.6% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 3.7% is used for growing crops and 35.0% is pastures and 10.9% is used for alpine pastures. All the water in the municipality is flowing water.The municipality is located in the Franches-Montagnes district, from the high valleys of the Franches-Montagnes down to the banks of the Doubs river. It consists of the village of Saint-Brais and scattered hamlets and individual farm houses.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.