Avry-sur-Matran

State :

Switzerland

Canton :

Freiburg (FR)

District :

Saane

Municipality :

Avry

Postal code :

1645

Coordinates :

572 242 / 181979 coordinates: 46 ° 47 '18 " N , 7 ° 4' 30" O ; CH1903: five hundred and seventy-two thousand two hundred and forty-two / one hundred eighty-one thousand nine hundred seventy-nine

Height :

685 m above sea level M.

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Parish before the merger on January 1, 2001

Avry-sur-Matran is a former municipality in the Saane district in the canton of Friborg in Switzerland . On 1 January 2001, the community was with the former rural community Corjolens to the municipality Avry merged .

history

Avry-sur-Matran includes the Avry area, new quarters and the Rosé district, which has spread along the cantonal road since the railway station was built in 1880. Mentioned for the first time in 1162 under De Avriei, in German earlier Avry ob Matran. Avry-sur-Matran belonged to the Freiburg Old Landscape (Neustadtpanner) from 1442 at the latest, and from 1798–1848 to the Freiburg district. The inhabitants were always parish in Matran . The Trinity Chapel was built in 1897. A mansion of the de Buman family (before 1704) is in Avry , a country estate of the Bourgknecht in Courtenay (18th century). Immigrant Bernese opened a reformed private German language school in 1879. The significant peat deposits were exploited during the Second World War . The originally rural community has developed into a residential suburb of Freiburg since 1960 and has also attracted various companies: u. a. Sofraver AG (insulating glass) in 1965 and a Migros shopping center in 1973.

population

Population development Avry-sur-Matran
year	1811	1850	1900	1950	1960	1980	2000
Residents	189	316	409	411	348	853	1'215

Attractions

Web links

Marianne Rolle: Avry-sur-Matran. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

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