Pleigne

Pleigne is a municipality in the district of Delémont in the canton of Jura in Switzerland. Pleigne is first mentioned in 1179 as Plenna. The municipality was formerly known by its German name Pleen, however, that name is no longer used. Pleigne has an area of . Of this area, or 47.2% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 49.2% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 3.0% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.4% is either rivers or lakes and or 0.1% is unproductive land. Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 1.6% and transportation infrastructure made up 1.2%. Out of the forested land, 46.1% of the total land area is heavily forested and 3.1% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 17.4% is used for growing crops and 11.0% is pastures and 18.5% is used for alpine pastures. All the water in the municipality is in lakes. The municipality is located in the Delemont district, on a terrace at an elevation of . The village is north-west of Delemont. It consists of the village of Pleigne, numerous former farms of Lucelle/Lützel Monastery, the Gasthaus Moulin-Neuf, the 18th century mill at Bavelier and the archeological Löwenburg site. The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Gules, between three Mullets of Five Or a Sword and a Staff Argent in Saltire and in chief on an Escutcheon of the last a Jay statant lined Sable. Pleigne has a population () of . , 2.6% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (2000–2010) the population has changed at a rate of 0%. Migration accounted for -3.6%, while births and deaths accounted for 2.8%. Most of the population () speaks French (347 or 85.0%) as their first language, German is the second most common (58 or 14.2%) and Dutch is the third (2 or 0.5%). the population was 48.3% male and 51.7% female. The population was made up of 185 Swiss men (47.3% of the population) and 4 (1.0%) non-Swiss men. There were 194 Swiss women (49.6%) and 8 (2.0%) non-Swiss women. Of the population in the municipality, 200 or about 49.