Fontenais
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| Coordinates: 47°24′N 07°05′E / 47.400°N 7.083°ECoordinates: 47°24′N 07°05′E / 47.400°N 7.083°E | ||
| Country | Switzerland | |
| Canton | Jura | |
| District | Porrentruy | |
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Maire Yves Daucourt |
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| Area | ||
| • Total | 20 km2 (8 sq mi) | |
| Elevation | 458 m (1,503 ft) | |
| Population (Dec 2015) | ||
| • Total | 1,671 | |
| • Density | 84/km2 (220/sq mi) | |
| Postal code | 2902 | |
| SFOS number | 6790 | |
| Localities | Villars-sur-Fontenais | |
| Surrounded by | Bressaucourt, Porrentruy, Cornol, Courgenay, Ocourt | |
| Website |
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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.
Fontenais is first mentioned in 1148 as Fonteneis.
Fontenais has an area of 20 km2 (7.72 sq mi). Of this area, 5.11 km2 (1.97 sq mi) or 48.7% is used for agricultural purposes, while 4.56 km2 (1.76 sq mi) or 43.5% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 0.78 km2 (0.30 sq mi) or 7.4% is settled (buildings or roads) and 0.04 km2 (9.9 acres) 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.
The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Azure, a Fountain Argent, and on a Chief Or two Mullets [of Six] Gules. The fountain (French: fontaine) is an example of canting.
Fontenais has a population (as of December 2015[update]) of 1,671. As of 2008[update], 6.5% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (2000–2010) the population has changed at a rate of -1.7%. Migration accounted for -2.4%, while births and deaths accounted for 0.6%.
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