Saint-Brais

Saint-Brais is a municipality in the district of Franches-Montagnes in the canton of Jura in Switzerland.

Of the rest of the land, 0.55 km2 (0.21 sq mi) or 3.6% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.17 km2 (0.066 sq mi) or 1.1% is either rivers or lakes and 0.05 km2 (12 acres) or 0.3% is unproductive land.

It consists of the village of Saint-Brais and scattered hamlets and individual farm houses.

[6] The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Azure, St. Brice depicted as bishop clad Argent with mitre and haloed Or holding a crosier statant on Coupeaux of the last.

[10] Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks French (188 or 88.7%) as their first language, German is the second most common (18 or 8.5%) and Dutch is the third (4 or 1.9%).

[10] The historical population is given in the following chart:[3][14] The prehistoric settlement of Le Mont, which is shared sith Glovelier, is listed as a Swiss heritage site of national significance.

[15] In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the CVP which received 34% of the vote.

In the federal election, a total of 77 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 41.6%.

[10] There were 98 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 34.7% of the workforce.

In the tertiary sector; 5 or 27.8% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 2 or 11.1% were in the movement and storage of goods, 8 or 44.4% were in a hotel or restaurant, 1 was in education.

[10] The municipality has a railway station, Bollement, on the La Chaux-de-Fonds–Glovelier line.

From the 2000 census[update], 157 or 74.1% were Roman Catholic, while 12 or 5.7% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church.

This is followed by three years of obligatory lower Secondary school where the students are separated according to ability and aptitude.

Aerial view (1955)
Le Mont
Saint-Brais church