Vicques (the Jura)
Vicques is a common Suisse of the Canton of the Jura. Vicques comes from the word vicus, which means Roman borough
Geography
The commune of Vicques is to 6 km as the crow flies with the east-south-east of Delémont. It is located in the Valley Terbi.The altitude of the village east of 455 meters. The culminating point is on the Mountain of Ire, with 947 meters.
The commune is sprinkled by the Scheulte and the Gabiare.
The village of Recolaine belongs to the commune of Vicques.
Vicques through the centuries
History
The area of Vicques was inhabited at the time Roman, as the traces of a Roman agricultural domain attest it (villa rustica).The first mention of the village goes up with 866.
The mill of Vicques belonged to the Abbaye of Moutier-Grandval. Like the twelve other francs villages of the valley of Delémont, Vicques returned to the Évêché of Basle in 1271.
Of 1793 with 1815, Vicques belonged to the France, in the department of the Mount-Terrible , then in that of the Haut-Rhin. Following a decision of the Congress of Vienna, in 1815, the common one was allotted to the canton Bern, like all those of the District of Delémont.
Since January 1st 1979, Vicques belongs to the Canton of the Jura.
Economy
The common one was mainly agricultural a long time. It shelters today some workshops of mechanics and undercutting, a sawmill and an agricultural mill.Many credits are the pendular ones which work with Delémont.
Transport
Personalities
- Paul Bovée, painter Article in the Dictionary of the Jura
- Christian Schneiter, taxidermist
Sciences
- astronomical Observatory Jurassic Site of the observatory
Curiosities
- Church built of 1959 - 1961 in the fields of the architect Pierre Dumas, based on geometrical forms avant-gardists for the time, sanctuary has base triangular, stained glasses of Bernard Schorderet.
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