He founded a congregation in Tramelan, Switzerland with nearly 60 members, as well as many other smaller groups.
This decision created a German-speaking enclave in a French-speaking district at a time when the Jurassic separatism movement was beginning to grow.
One of the largest factories, which had opened in 1903 and was acquired by Longines in 1961, closed in 1983.
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Tramelan's village church was controlled by the Archbishop of Besançon and so formed an enclave in the diocese of Basel.
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The Chemins de fer du Jura (CJ), the railways of the Jura canton in northern Switzerland, came about as the result of an amalgamation, in 1944, of four independent companies connecting Porrentruy to Bonfol, Saignelégier to La Chaux-de-Fonds, Glovelier to Saignelégier and Tavannes to Tramelan and Le Noirmont.