Clavaleyres

Clavaleyres

State :	Switzerland Switzerland
Canton :	Canton Bern Bern (BE)
Administrative district :	Bern-Mittellandw
BFS no. :	0661i1 f3 f4
Postal code :	1595
Coordinates :	573 509 / 194 318 coordinates: 46 ° 53 '58 " N , 7 ° 5' 28" O ; CH1903: five hundred seventy-three thousand five hundred and nine / one hundred and ninety-four thousand three hundred eighteen46.89944 7.09098 454
Height :	454 m above sea level M.
Height range :	449-510 m above sea level M.
Area :	1.00 km²
Residents:	46 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	46 inhabitants per km²
Mayor :	Juerg Truog
Website:	www.clavaleyres.ch
Clavaleyres
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Clavaleyres is a municipality in the Bern-Mittelland administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland .

geography

Clavaleyres is a German-speaking Bernese exclave in the officially French-speaking area of the cantons of Friborg and Vaud. The small community had 49 inhabitants in 2015.

history

Finds of bronze rings suggest a settlement during the Latène period . During Roman times there was a manor that supplied the nearby town of Aventicum . In the Middle Ages , Clavaleyres belonged to the rule of the Cluniac Priory of Münchenwiler. In 1484/86 Clavaleyres, together with Münchenwiler , came to the St. Vinzenzenstift ( Münsterstift ) Bern due to a papal bull . The definitive separation from Murten happened in 1527, when all court trades in Bern (Biberen) had to be carried out. In 1530, shortly after the introduction of the reformed faith, the rule of Münchenwiler (and with it Clavaleyres) became state property of the Bernese. In 1535, Bern sold the rule to his mayor Hans Jacob von Wattenwyl. In 1586 the external property of Clavaleyres was sold, but bought back in 1620 by the then ruler Markus Morlot. From 1668 to 1932 the rule belonged to the Bernese von Graffenried family . In 1798, after the French invaded, Münchenwiler and Clavaleyres, together with the surrounding Murten region, were added to the canton of Friborg. During the mediation period (from 1803), Bern tried to restore the old ownership structure, something that occupied the Federal Diet until 1807. Due to an arbitration award by the federal syndicate, the two villages returned to Bern in December 1807, where they were incorporated into the Laupen district (from 2010 the Bern-Mittelland administrative region) as independent municipalities.

In 2006, Clavaleyres applied for a merger with the sister exclave Münchenwiler, which their community assembly in May 2008 refused. Since then there have been contacts with the Freiburg municipality of Murten, which the small municipality would like to take on. In 2015, the cantonal governments of Bern and Friborg were ready to start the relevant merger negotiations. In 2018, the Grand Council of Friborg approved a law that enables the municipality of Clavaleyres to change canton from Bern to Friborg. In two referendums on September 23, 2018, both municipalities approved the merger. Since it is a matter of changing cantons, the merger still has to be approved by the cantonal parliaments and the voters of both cantons as well as by the Federal Assembly . The people of both cantons approved the matter in the referendum on February 9, 2020. If the Federal Assembly approves the change of canton, the change of canton will take place at the beginning of 2022.

politics

Clavaleyres is recorded in the electoral archive of the canton of Bern together with its neighboring municipality of Münchenwiler .

The voting shares of the parties on the occasion of the National Council elections in 2019 totaled in both municipalities: SVP 47.1%, SP 11%, FDP 9%, GPS 8.7%, BDP 6.8%, EDU 3.2%, glp 3.1 %, EVP 1.7%, JG 1.3%, CVP 0.7%.