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In 2016 > Christelle Fillod – Nightlight-Vadso 2016

There are no less than three religious buildings in Jougne which are dedicated to Saint-Maurice, this Roman officer who, according to tradition, was executed in Martigny in the 3rd century with the 6,500 men of the Theban legion for having refused to massacre the local Christian populations: the church of Jougne, the 12th century chapel of La Ferrière and this chapel.
We know neither the date nor the circumstances of the construction of this second, relatively recent Saint-Maurice chapel. It is a simple, rectangular building, attached to a private house, in the village, at the edge of the road which crosses it: a small entrance porch opens onto a single nave separated from the choir by a wooden communion table; a ceiling covers the nave and the choir.
Semi-circular windows illuminate the whole. In the choir, an altar (18th century) whose altarpiece is decorated with two gilded wooden statuettes. This rather modest set of furniture probably comes from an older building.
A Stations of the Cross (19th century engravings), two plaster Saint-Sulpician statues, a harmonium and wooden benches make up most of the furniture and decor of this chapel.

Text by Joël Guiraud

GPS : 46,742286 / 6,379773

In 2026 > Denis ROUECHE

In 2016 > Delphine REIST – LES MINUTES MÉCA­NIQUES

The Chapel of Our Lady of Hope was built at the initiative of Father Lallemand (parish priest of Saint-Bénigne Church in the 19th century). Cholera, which appeared in the diocese in 1832, had affected several towns in the Franche-Comté region. In 1855, Levier, Boujailles, Chapelle d’Huin, and Villeneuve d’Amont were also struck. On August 20, 1854, Father Lallemand decided to organize a procession behind the statue of the Virgin Mary to seek her protection. Pontarlier had been spared. In gratitude for what he considered a benevolent act of the Virgin, Father Lallemand decided to launch a fundraising campaign for the erection of a statue of the Virgin Mary on Mont Molar, overlooking Pontarlier. Then, believing that more needed to be done, after considering the construction of an oratory, he finally committed himself to the project of a chapel where it would be possible to celebrate Mass. The architect Girod drew up the plans, and the contractor Girod carried out the work. The inauguration of the chapel (a small, neo-Gothic building with a single nave), on Thursday, May 9, 1861 (Ascension Day), was accompanied by a large display of popular piety with parades, processions, flags, banners, music, and songs. On March 1, 1862, the chapel was crowned with a statue of the Virgin and Child created by the Pontarlais sculptor Favier. This statue, struck by lightning in 2005, was replaced in 2009. On the site of this chapel, on Mount Molar, a fortified castle still existed in the 13th century. Nothing specific is known about this fortification, whose origins are undoubtedly older, since it was there that several weapons from the Early Middle Ages (5th-11th centuries) were unearthed in the 19th century. It has even been suggested that it could be a fortified structure dating from the Iron Age (750-1st century BC).

GPS : 46,739577 / 6,230343

In 2018 > Le FRAC avec Rodolphe Huguet – 9 erreurs

In 2016 > Séverine Hubard – Bis bizz, la chapelle aux insectes

The chapel at Maison du Bois is named after Saint Barbara, patroness of dangerous professions or work causing violent death such as : artillerymen, sappers, miners and firefighters. She is traditionally represented with the tower in which, according to legend, her father had her locked up. Built in the 17th century, this chapel was for a long time a place of prayer and pilgrimage, before falling into disuse after the First World War.
In 1941, parish priest Father Humbert restored the chapel to its former glory as a sign of gratitude for the return of prisoners held in Germany. He also bought a small bell for the village church which was installed in the bell tower built in 1948.
This chapel, restored in 2013 by the municipality of Brey and Maison du Bois, consists of a single nave. In the choir space stands a small wooden high altar with a rotating tabernacle and a statue of Saint Barbara. The structure is covered by a two-sided roof and crowned with a small bell tower.
A monumental stone cross, erected in the 15th century, is attached to the chapel. It is decorated with two sculptures, one of which is an identical reconstruction of the original (disappeared in 1980) created during the rehabilitation of the chapel in 2013.

GPS : 46,739577 / 6,230343

In 2016 > Jacqueline Benz – D’autre part

The Malbuisson church is a 17th, 18th and 20th century church. It is dedicated to Saint Claude. It was built in 1732 on the banks of Lake Saint-Point (also called “Lake Malbuisson”) on a primitive chapel from 1618 and on the foundations of an old chapel from 1705.

GPS : 46,801513 / 6,307757

In 2016 > Dominique Petitgand – Les cordes vocales

The parish church named after the Presentation of Notre-Dame was built in the 19th century (1843) to replace an older chapel located inside the cemetery. Made up of a square bell tower, a single nave and a choir, this church follows a usual 19th century layout: a copy of models from past centuries. We can highlight the presence of a baptismal font in brown painted wood enhanced with gold. It is an element coming from an older building, perhaps from the old chapel.

GPS : 46,773372 / 6,351360

In 2024 > Frédéric LORMEAU

In 2016 > Christian Robert-Tissot – Sans titre

In 1077, Simon, count in Valois, retired to the abbey of Saint-Claude (Jura), then with a few companions near the source of the Doubs, in Mouthe, where he is said to have built a chapel; but the first mention of the church of Mouthe only dates back from 1120. This church, placed under the name of the Assumption, was remodeled several times: enlarged around 1400, restored and partly rebuilt after the fires of 1479 and 1639.
The current church was built from 1732 to 1742 to the plans of the architect Jean-Pierre Gazelot from Besançon. The plan is simple and classic: a square bell tower-porch covered by an imperial roof opens onto a nave with two aisles and onto a choir; the whole is covered by a groined vault.
Columns separate the nave and the aisles which are lit by large stained glass windows. Outside, buttresses reinforce the building. But it is above all the different pieces of furniture (from the 18th century, in painted and gilded carved wood) which make this building interesting: the main altar-altarpiece whose painting represents the Assumption of the Virgin, the side altarpieces , the preaching pulpit, the baptismal font, the confessionals, the paintings and the statues.
Note that the carved wooden choir stalls (1543) come from the abbey of Mont-Sainte-Marie.

Text by Joël Guiraud

GPS : 46,710554 / 6,194237