Canton of Jura
Franches-Montagnes District
Montfaucon

Montfaucon

Montfaucon is a municipality in the district of Franches-Montagnes in the canton of Jura in . On 1 January 2009 the former municipality of merged into Montfaucon.
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  • Type: Village with 623 residents
  • Description: municipality in the canton of Jura, Switzerland
  • Also known as: “Montfaucon JU” and “Montfaucon, Switzerland”
  • Postal code: 2362

Places of Interest

Highlights include Saint-Jean-Baptiste church and Pré-Petitjean railway station.

Church
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Railway station
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is a railway station in the municipality of Montfaucon, in the canton of . It is an intermediate stop and a request stop on the 1,000 mm metre gauge La Chaux-de-Fonds–Glovelier line of the Chemins de fer du Jura.

Photo: Plutowiki, CC0.
is a volunteer railway preservation group based at on the line of the Chemins de fer du Jura. Their special trains operate, on selected dates throughout the year, over three routes in the area, Glovelier to Saignelégier, Saignelégier to La Chaux-de-Fonds and "The Hard Climb" from Tavannes to la Noirmont.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Les Enfers and Soubey.

Village
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is a municipality in the district of Franches-Montagnes in the canton of Jura in .

Village
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is a municipality in the district of Franches-Montagnes in the canton of Jura in . is situated 3 km north of Montfaucon.

Village
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is a municipality in the district of Franches-Montagnes in the canton of Jura in . is situated 3½ km southwest of Montfaucon.

Montfaucon

Latitude
47.28222° or 47° 16′ 56″ north
Longitude
7.05129° or 7° 3′ 5″ east
Population
623
Elevation
996 metres (3,268 feet)
Open location code
8FV973J2+VG
Open­Street­Map ID
node 240063347
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
2659614
Wiki­data ID
Q68081
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Montfaucon” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Montfaucon”
  • Albanian: “Montfaucon”
  • Aragonese: “Montfaucon”
  • Arpitan: “Montfaucon”
  • Asturian: “Montfaucon”
  • Basque: “Montfaucon”
  • Bavarian: “Montfaucon”
  • Breton: “Montfaucon”
  • Catalan: “Montfaucon”
  • Cebuano: “Montfaucon, Jura”
  • Cebuano: “Montfaucon”
  • Chinese: “芒特福孔”
  • Chinese: “蒙福孔”
  • Corsican: “Montfaucon”
  • Croatian: “Montfaucon”
  • Czech: “Montfaucon”
  • Danish: “Montfaucon”
  • Dutch: “Montfaucon”
  • Esperanto: “Montfaucon JU”
  • Esperanto: “Montfavergier”
  • Esperanto: “Pré-Petitjean”
  • Estonian: “Montfaucon”
  • Finnish: “Montfaucon”
  • French: “Montfaucon JU”
  • French: “Montfaucon”
  • Friulian: “Montfaucon”
  • Galician: “Montfaucon”
  • German: “Montfaucon JU”
  • German: “Montfaucon”
  • Hungarian: “Montfaucon”
  • Icelandic: “Montfaucon”
  • Ido: “Montfaucon”
  • Indonesian: “Montfaucon”
  • Interlingua: “Montfaucon”
  • Interlingue: “Montfaucon”
  • Irish: “Montfaucon”
  • Italian: “Montfaucon”
  • Kongo: “Montfaucon”
  • Ligurian: “Montfaucon”
  • Limburgan: “Montfaucon”
  • Lombard: “Montfaucon”
  • Low German: “Montfaucon”
  • Luxembourgish: “Montfaucon”
  • Malagasy: “Montfaucon”
  • Malay: “Montfaucon, Switzerland”
  • Minangkabau: “Montfaucon”
  • Narom: “Montfaucon”
  • Neapolitan: “Montfaucon”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Montfaucon”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Montfaucon i Sveits”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Montfaucon”
  • Picard: “Montfaucon”
  • Piemontese: “Montfaucon”
  • Polish: “Montfaucon”
  • Portuguese: “Montfaucon”
  • Romanian: “Montfaucon”
  • Romansh: “Montfaucon”
  • Russian: “Монфокон”
  • Sardinian: “Montfaucon”
  • Scots: “Montfaucon”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Montfaucon”
  • Serbian: “Montfaucon”
  • Sicilian: “Montfaucon”
  • Slovak: “Montfaucon”
  • Slovenian: “Montfaucon”
  • Spanish: “Montfaucon”
  • Swahili: “Montfaucon”
  • Swedish: “Montfaucon, Schweiz”
  • Swedish: “Montfaucon”
  • Swiss German: “Montfaucon JU”
  • Swiss German: “Montfaucon”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Montfaucon JU”
  • Turkish: “Montfaucon”
  • Ukrainian: “Монфокон”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Montfaucon”
  • Venetian: “Montfaucon”
  • Vietnamese: “Montfaucon”
  • Vlaams: “Montfaucon”
  • Volapük: “Montfaucon”
  • Walloon: “Montfaucon”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Montfaucon, Swiza”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Montfaucon”
  • Welsh: “Montfaucon”
  • Wolof: “Montfaucon”
  • Zulu: “Montfaucon”

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