Bürglen FR

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The Bourguillon district

Bürglen ( French Bourguillon ) is a hamlet in the area of ​​the city of Friborg in Üechtland , the capital of the canton of Friborg in Switzerland . It is located about 1.5 km southeast of the city on the plateau south of the Galtern Valley on the road to La Roche - Bulle at an altitude of 655 m. ü. M.

One of the sights of Bürglen is a hospital for lepers , built in 1275 and mentioned in 1396 as "Bonne maison" , which later also served as a poor house. The sick were allowed to go begging in Freiburg four times a year. It was sold in 1838, torn down and rebuilt as the Aux Trois-Tours inn .

Notre-Dame de Bourguillon

Next to it is a chapel built in the 15th century in Gothic style , which was expanded with a sacristy in 1659 and rebuilt in the Baroque style in the 18th century . Romanesque traces were also found during archaeological excavations in 1984 . The chapel has been a popular pilgrimage site of Notre-Dame du Bourguillon (see Notre-Dame-du-Mont-Carmel ) since the 15th century . It is associated with belief in miracles in various healings. A number of votive offerings from the time of the world wars, which are in the church, attest to this. Some of them are written in English. The church is surrounded by a cemetery. In 1921 the œuvre des malades de Notre-Dame de Bourguillon was created , with around 150 members today. The church was a target of frequent processions , especially under the Counter-Reformation, and was visited by the Marian-bearers in a procession from October 3 to 6, 1923 for the benefit of over 500 sick people gathered in Freiburg. On January 17, 1924, the journal La Semaine catholique published information on the people who were allegedly cured of their diseases by the processions.

In the hamlet there is also the former Salve Regina boarding house , which today serves as a student residence under the management of the Baldegger sisters , as well as Bourguillon Castle from the 16th century, also known as the Manoir de Diesbach . Not far from Bürglen in the Sankt Ursen area is the cemetery of the Kanisius Sisters , with the grave of Maximilian of Saxony . Bürglen was formerly an important meteorological observation station in the canton with an observatory .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Charles Knapp, Maurice Borel, Victor Attinger, Heinrich Brunner, Société neuchâteloise de geographie (editor): Geographical Lexicon of Switzerland . Volume 1: Aa - Emmengruppe . Verlag Gebrüder Attinger, Neuenburg 1902, p. 382 f., Keyword Bürglen   ( scan of the lexicon page ).
  2. ↑ a b c Josiane Ferrari-Clément: Miracles et pèlerinages au Pays de Friborg - Ils ont reçu parce qu'ils ont cru . In: Archives vivantes . Éditions Cabédita, Bière (Suisse) 2019, ISBN 978-2-88295-862-4 , p. 99-105 .
  3. ↑ Notre Dame de Bourguillon Shrine of Our Lady of Bürglen on ndbourguillon.ch
  4. ↑ Foyer Bel Abri Bourguillon on klosterbaldegg.ch
  5. ^ Friborg: Bourguillon Castle on swisscastles.ch
  6. ^ Robert Savary: Dr Max von Sachsen. In: Find a Grave . June 4, 2016, accessed November 8, 2019 .

Coordinates: 46 ° 48 ′ 1 "  N , 7 ° 10 ′ 35"  E ; CH1903:  five hundred and seventy-nine thousand nine hundred seventy-five  /  183260