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Les Pommerats

Canton of Jura · District: Franches-Montagnes · 253 inhabitants (2008, former municipality of Les Pommerats, last figure before the merger)
Part of the municipality of Saignelégier
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Origin of the name Les Pommerats

The village appears in 1370 as « Pomerat ». The old German name « Bresselerwalden » is also recorded. Where does the name come from? That is still unknown.[1]

Founding of Les Pommerats

Neither the founder nor the circumstances in which Les Pommerats came into being are known. The village on the road from Saignelégier to Goumois is first mentioned in 1370. It belonged to the lordship of the Franches-Montagnes, a territory of the Bishopric of Basel. Attached first to the parish of Montfaucon, then to that of Saignelégier in 1629, it became a parish in 1783, the last one created in the Franches-Montagnes. It now belongs to the municipality of Saignelégier (merger of 1 January 2009).[1]

History of Les Pommerats

1370. First mention: « Pomerat ».[1]

Middle Ages. Les Pommerats belongs to the lordship of the Franches-Montagnes, in the Bishopric of Basel, and to the parish of Montfaucon.[1]

1629. The village is attached to the new parish of Saignelégier.[1]

1780. The small lordship of Malnuit, part of the barony of Montjoie, is ceded to the Bishopric of Basel by a treaty with France.[1]

1783. Les Pommerats is made a parish, the last one created in the Franches-Montagnes. Goumois is attached to it.[1]

1784-1786. Construction of the church of Saints-Pierre-et-Paul.[1]

1792-1813. Under French rule, the village belongs to the department of Mont-Terrible, then Haut-Rhin.[1]

1815. Joined to the canton of Bern. Malnuit forms the second section of the mixed municipality of Les Pommerats.[1]

1890. Foundation of the firm Voisard SA (watch cases).[1]

1974. The Malnuit section is abolished.[1]

1978. End of membership of the canton of Bern. Les Pommerats belongs to the canton of Jura.[1]

1980s. Closure of Voisard SA, which employed about fifty people in the 1970s.[1]

2009. On 1 January, Les Pommerats merges with Saignelégier and Goumois into the municipality of Saignelégier.[1]

Population of Les Pommerats

Sources and references: [1]

Population of Les Pommerats
1818287
1850357
1870458
1900345
1950308
1980197
2000257
2008253

Historic sites in Les Pommerats

Church of Saints-Pierre-et-Paul. Parish church built in 1784-1786, shortly after Les Pommerats was made a parish in 1783. Cultural property of regional significance.[1][2]

Malnuit. Hamlet, formerly a small lordship of the barony of Montjoie, ceded to the Bishopric of Basel in 1780. It formed a section of the municipality of Les Pommerats until 1974.[1]

Moulin Jeannottat. Locality of the former municipality of Les Pommerats.[1]

Sources

  1. Dictionnaire historique de la Suisse, « Les Pommerats » (François Kohler), version du 13.07.2020
  2. Office fédéral de la protection de la population (OFPP), Inventaire PBC, liste cantonale du canton du Jura (état au 1.1.2026)
  3. République et Canton du Jura, Gouvernement, message au Parlement relatif à la révision de la législation en matière de fusion de communes (30 mars 2011)
  4. geo.admin.ch (swisstopo), recherche de lieux « Les Pommerats »

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