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Cormoret
Bernvillage
Cormoret
Total population
481
Demographic figures from Swiss Federal Statistical Office. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.
City facts
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Overview
Cormoret is a municipality in the Jura bernois administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. It is located in the French-speaking part of the canton in the Jura mountains.
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History
Cormoret is first mentioned in 1178. By the end of the 12th Century Cormoret was owned by the town of Saint-Imier. In 1317 Rodolphe IV., count of Neuchâtel granted the village and inhabitants to Jean Compagnet de Courtelary, under the authority of the Prince-Bishop of Basel. Cormoret belonged to the Barony of Erguel. In 1530 the village adopted the Reformed faith. A fire destroyed part of the town in 1795, but about thirty buildings from the 16th to 19th century still remain in the village. Several water powered mills from the same period also still exist, though many of them were converted into factories in the 19th century. The local economy was built on agriculture and starting in the 19th century on watch manufacturing. The last watch part factory in the village closed in 1983. In 1885 Cormoret built the first public lighting system in Switzerland. The village's train station was built in 1890.
Geography
Cormoret has an area of . Of this area, or 54.2% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 42.3% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 3.3% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.2% is either rivers or lakes and or 0.1% is unproductive land. Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 1.4% and transportation infrastructure made up 1.7%. Out of the forested land, 36.8% of the total land area is heavily forested and 5.5% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 8.5% is used for growing crops and 9.6% is pastures and 36.0% is used for alpine pastures. All the water in the municipality is flowing water.
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Geography
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Notable people from here
Nearby places in Bern
- Courtelary0.9 mi away · pop. 1,290
- Mont-Tramelan2.4 mi away · pop. 114
- Saint-Imier3 mi away · pop. 5,088
- Les Reussilles3.9 mi away
- Sonvilier4.7 mi away · pop. 1,221
- Diesse5 mi away · pop. 438
- Sonceboz-Sombeval5.8 mi away · pop. 1,917
- Renan BE6.7 mi away · pop. 896
- Gaicht6.9 mi away
- Ligerz7.2 mi away · pop. 527
- Wingreis7.5 mi away
- Tüscherz7.7 mi away · pop. 307
Geography & sun
Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.
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Official Identifiers
BFS — Swiss Federal Statistical Office
- BFS-Nr
- 432
- Population (Wikidata)
- 491
- Wikidata
- Q66425
Gemeindenummer via Wikidata P771
Sources
- • Wikipedia
- • Wikidata
- • Open-Meteo / sunrise-sunset.org
- • Wikipedia Pageviews API
- • BFS — Swiss Federal Statistical Office — Gemeindenummer via Wikidata P771