Muntelier

Muntelier
State :	Switzerland
Canton :	Freiburg (FR)
District :	lake
BFS no. :	2274
Postal code :	3286
Coordinates :	575.99 thousand  /  198261 coordinates: 46 ° 56 '6 "  N , 7 ° 7' 24"  O ; CH1903:  575 990  /  198261
Height :	435  m above sea level M.
Height range :	429–449 m above sea level M.
Area :	1.10  km²
Residents:	972 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	884 inhabitants per km²
Website:	www.muntelier.ch
Municipal administration Muntelier
Location of the municipality

Muntelier ( French Montilier ; Friborg Patois Montilyi ^{? / I} ) is a municipality in the lake district (French: District du Lac ) in the canton of Friborg in Switzerland .

geography

Muntelier lies at 435  m above sea level. M. , 1 km northeast of the district capital Murten (linear distance). The former fishing village extends on the south-eastern shore of Lake Murten and on the edge of the adjacent Molasse heights , in the northern Freiburg Central Plateau .

The area of ​​the 1.1 km² municipal area includes a section on the south bank of Lake Murten (around 2 km of the lakeshore line). The community soil extends from the lakeshore to the southeast over a flat edge of the bank just 300 m inland to the edge of the so-called Siechenmatt . The highest point of Muntelier is 447  m above sea level. M. reached at the cemetery. In the eastern part of the municipality, the area extends into the forest of Le Chablais and has a small portion of the agriculturally intensively used plain of the Grosse Moos . The lakeshore in the area of ​​the Chablais forest consists of a belt of reeds around 150 m wide. In 1997, 27% of the municipal area was in settlements, 35% in forests and woodlands, 35% in agriculture and a little less than 3% was unproductive land.

Muntelier has a commercial zone at the foot of the Löwenberg. The neighboring communities of Muntelier are Murten and Galmiz .

population

With 920 inhabitants (at the end of 2007) Muntelier is one of the smaller communities in the canton of Friborg. The population of Muntelier was 576 in 1900. In the course of the 20th century, the population decreased by over 30% to 402 people by 1940 due to heavy emigration. Since then, there has been significant population growth again, especially during the 1980s.

languages

86.7% of the residents speak German, 7.9% speak French and 2.1% speak Portuguese (as of 2000). Muntelier is thus predominantly German-speaking today. The place name clearly indicates an originally French-speaking village. The majority relationship between French and German probably reversed in the course of the 17th century.

See also : Canton Neuchâtel # Under the kings of Prussia

economy

Until the middle of the 20th century, Muntelier was a predominantly agricultural village. From 1852 to 1962 the watch factory Montilier Watch, which at times had up to 600 employees, was based in Muntelier.

Today arable farming and fruit growing only play a marginal role in the income structure of the population. Numerous jobs are available in local small businesses and especially in the service sector. Since the 1980s, a commercial zone has been created in the Löwenberg area. In the village, among other things, companies in the precision engineering industry, boat building and the manufacture of construction machinery are represented. The best- known company is Selecta . Muntelier has a campsite on the eastern shore of Lake Murten. In the last few decades the village has developed into a residential community thanks to its attractive location. Most of the gainfully employed are therefore commuters who work mainly in Murten and partly in the Freiburg region.

traffic

The community is very well developed in terms of transport. It is located on main road 1 from Lausanne to Bern . The nearest connection to the A1 motorway (Bern-Lausanne), which opened in 1997, is around 2 km from the town center. Since June 12, 1876, the municipality has been crossed by the railway line from Murten to Lyss . The new Muntelier-Löwenberg stop just outside the municipal boundary was created in the mid-1980s; this also opens up the SBB's Löwenberg training center .

history

The municipality of Muntelier can look back on a very long tradition of settlement. After the first correction of the Jura waters, traces of pile dwellings were found on the shores of Lake Murten , which can be dated to the Neolithic (4th millennium BC) and the Bronze Age . The most important finds are assigned to the Horgen culture . Numerous jewelry, weapons, ceramics, textiles and leftover food were unearthed during the excavations.

The first written mention of the place took place in 1270 under the name Monteliers . Later, the names Montelliaco (1394), Montellier (1413) and Muntillier (1510) appeared. The German name Muntelier became official in 1911 after a decision by the Federal Statistical Office. The place name is made up of the old French word til (linden) and mont (mountain).

Muntelier has been under the rule of Murten since the Middle Ages . In 1475, the village came under the joint administration of the estates of Bern and Freiburg as part of the bailiwick of Murten. Muntelier originally belonged to the urban area of ​​Murten and received municipal rights on March 14, 1533. However, only an area was eliminated that extended as far as the houses of the village, which is why Muntelier today only has a small community area. On May 1, 1741, numerous houses fell victim to a fire.

After the collapse of the Ancien Régime (1798), the village came to the canton of Friborg. During the Helvetic Republic and the following period it belonged to the Murten district before it was incorporated into the lake district in 1848 with the new cantonal constitution. Up until the correction of the Jura waters in 1878, Muntelier was repeatedly affected by flooding from Lake Murten.

Attractions

See also : List of cultural assets in Muntelier

Muntelier Castle (2020)

The Castle Muntelier was built in the years 1700 to 1720 on behalf of Julius Hieronymus von Ernst. In 1875 it was bought by Constantin Dinichert, director of the Muntelierer watch factory. Later it passed into the possession of the diplomat Paul Dinichert . It served as a school from 1874 to 1970, after which a riding and sports center was set up, but it was closed in the mid-1980s.

The so-called doctor house was built in 1742 after the village fire and has been the community center since 1982. The granary with its unusually high roof, which was later converted into a schoolhouse, also dates from the 18th century.

Muntelier does not have its own church, it still belongs to the parish of Murten today. However, the original parish church of Murten stood in what is now the municipality by the cemetery. It was canceled in 1762.

Sons of the community

• Wilhelm Bartsch (1873–1959), lawyer and councilor in Freiburg im Üechtland
• Georges Grolimund (1894–1983), pacemaker in cycling

Web links

Commons : Muntelier  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of the municipality of Muntelier
• Denis Ramseyer and Hermann Schöpfer: Muntelier. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Aerial views of the village

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Permanent and non-permanent resident population by year, canton, district, municipality, population type and gender (permanent resident population). In: bfs. admin.ch . Federal Statistical Office (FSO), August 31, 2019, accessed on December 22, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Construction project for the palace area presented. In: Freiburger Nachrichten. May 4, 2019, accessed June 6, 2020 .