Cormoret
Sign in to saveCormoret 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.
Key facts
- Swiss town.subject_name
- Cormoret
- Swiss town.municipality_type
- municipality
- Swiss town.imagepath_coa
- CHE Cormoret COA.svg
- Swiss town.imagepath_flag
- CHE Cormoret Flag.svg
- Swiss town.image_photo
- 2011-08-27 Cormoret (Foto Dietrich Michael Weidmann) 020.JPG
- Swiss town.canton
- Bern
- Swiss town.iso code region
- CH-BE
- Swiss town.district
- Jura bernois
- Swiss town.postal_code
- 2612
- Swiss town.municipality_code
- 0432
- Swiss town.area
- 13.43
- Swiss town.elevation
- 706
- Swiss town.website
- www.cormoret.ch
- Swiss town.mayor_title
- Maire
- Swiss town.neighboring_municipalities
- Villeret, Nods, Courtelary, Les Breuleux (JU)
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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.
==History== thumb|Aerial view (1949) 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.