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Broomstick
State :	Switzerland
Canton :	Freiburg (FR)
District :	Vivisbach
Municipality :	Saint-Martin (FR)
Postal code :	1609
former BFS no. :	XXXX
Coordinates :	556.16 thousand  /  159278 coordinates: 46 ° 35 '0 "  N , 6 ° 52' 0"  O ; CH1903:  five hundred fifty-six thousand one hundred and sixty  /  159278
Height :	880  m above sea level M.
Residents:	154 (2002)
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Parish before the merger on January 1, 2004

Besencens ( French [ bəzɑ̃sɑ̃s ]; fpr. [ (A) bəzɛ̃ˈsɛ̃ ], Bezinssin ^{? / I} ) is a scattered settlement and formerly an independent political municipality in the Vivisbach district of the Swiss canton of Friborg . Besencens has belonged to the municipality of Saint-Martin since 2004 .

geography

Besencens is 880  m above sea level. M. , 15 km west-southwest of Bulle (linear distance). The scattered settlement extends in a promising location on a ridge between the valleys of Mionna in the south and the Flon in the north, in the molasse hills of the Haute-Veveyse east of the upper Broye , in the southwestern Freiburg Central Plateau . The former municipality area was around 2.1 km². The area comprised the ridge of the Besencens ridge (up to 903  m above sea level ) and reached in the northeast to the edge of the Les Tourbières moorland .

population

With 154 inhabitants (2002), Besencens was one of the small communities in the canton of Friborg before the merger. In 1870 the community had 173 inhabitants, but in 1980 only 95 people lived in the village after heavy emigration. Since then, the population has increased significantly again. The hamlets of Clos Devant ( 840  m above sea level ) and La Jailla ( 870  m above sea level ), both located on the ridge of Besencens, as well as several farm settlements and individual farms also belonged to the scattered settlement community of Besencens .

economy

Besencens still lives from agriculture today , especially from dairy farming and cattle breeding . Thanks to the attractive location, families who are mainly employed outside of the village have moved into the village in the last two decades.

traffic

The village is off the main thoroughfares, but is easily accessible from Saint-Martin or Oron-la-Ville . Besencens itself has no connection to the public transport network, the next stop on the bus line from Oron-la-Ville to La Verrerie is in Saint-Martin.

history

The place is first documented as Besencens around 1166 and as Besences around 1170 . The place name is interpreted as a derivative of a Latin personal name, such as Byzantius , with the Germanic affiliation suffix -ing ōs . Since the High Middle Ages Besencens was under the rule of Oron, which was under the influence of the House of Savoy. With this rule, the village came into the possession of the Counts of Gruyères in the late 14th century . After the last Count of Gruyères went bankrupt in 1554, Besencens became the property of Freiburg in 1555 and was subsequently assigned to the bailiwick of Rue . Until 1763 Besencens formed a single municipality together with the neighboring village of Fiaugères . After the collapse of the Ancien Régime in 1798, the village belonged to what was then the Rue district during the Helvetic and the following period before it was incorporated into the Veveyse district in 1848. Besencens does not have its own church, it belongs to the parish of Saint-Martin.

As part of the community mergers promoted by the canton of Friborg since 2000, the voters of Besencens voted on June 11, 2003 with a yes majority of 95% for the merger of their community with Saint-Martin and Fiaugères . With effect from January 1, 2004 Besencens was therefore incorporated into Saint-Martin.

Web links

• Marianne Rolle: Besencens. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Website of the School of Saint-Martin on Besencens (French)
• Aerial views of the village

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Nicolas Pépin: Besencens FR (La Veveyse) in: Dictionnaire toponymique des communes suisses - Lexicon of Swiss community names - Dizionario toponomastico dei comuni svizzeri (DTS | LSG). Center de dialectologie, Université de Neuchâtel, Verlag Huber, Frauenfeld / Stuttgart / Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-7193-1308-5 and Éditions Payot, Lausanne 2005, ISBN 2-601-03336-3 , p. 145f.