Blessens
Blessens | ||
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State : | Switzerland | |
Canton : | Freiburg (FR) | |
District : | Glane | |
Municipality : | Rue | |
Postal code : | 1675 | |
former BFS no. : | XXXX | |
Coordinates : | 553 634 / 163 003 | |
Height : | 706 m above sea level M. | |
Residents: | 89 (1990) | |
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Blessens ( Freiburger Patois ) is a town and formerly an independent political municipality in the Glane district of the canton of Friborg in Switzerland . On January 1, 1993, Blessens was incorporated into Rue .
geography
Blessens lies at 706 m above sea level. M. , 1.5 km southeast of Rue and 11 km southwest of the district capital Romont (linear distance). The hamlet stretches on the eastern slope of the Broye in a panoramic position around 130 m above the valley floor, in the Molasse hill country of the southwestern Freiburg Central Plateau . The former municipality area was around 2.7 km². The area reached from the Mulde southeast of Rue with the En Faye forest eastward up the gently sloping slope of Blessens to the height of Montaney ( 815 m above sea level ) near Saint-Joseph.
population
With 89 inhabitants (1990), Blessens was one of the smallest communities in the canton of Friborg before the merger. Since 1930 (163 inhabitants), the municipality has recorded a population decrease of almost 50% due to strong emigration. The hamlet of Arlens ( 691 m above sea level ) on the slope above Promasens and a few individual farms belong to Blessens .
economy
Blessens still lives from agriculture today , especially from dairy farming and cattle breeding , and there are also smaller arable areas .
traffic
The two hamlets of Blessens and Arlens are located away from the larger thoroughfares on a connecting road from Vauderens to Promasens . You have no connection to the public transport network.
history
The former community area was settled very early. A Celtic grave with rich gifts and traces of a Roman estate were found. The first written mention of the place took place in 1150 under the name Blesens . Later the names Blescens (1160), Blessens (1215) and Blesseins (1238) appeared. The place name goes back to the Burgundian personal name Biliso and means with the suffix -ens as much as with the people of Biliso.
Since the Middle Ages, Blessens has been the seat of a noble family under the rule of Rue. When the Bernese conquered Vaud in 1536, Blessens came under the rule of Friborg and was assigned to the Vogtei Rue. After the collapse of the Ancien Régime (1798), the village belonged to the Rue district during the Helvetic and the following period and was incorporated into the Glâne district in 1848. With effect from January 1, 1993 Blessens was incorporated into Rue .
Attractions
At the height above Blessens is the Saint-Joseph chapel, which was built in 1683 and restored in 1882. Ecclesiastically the hamlet belongs to the parish of Promasens.
Web links
- Marianne Rolle: Blessens. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Ernst Tremp: Arlens. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Aerial view of Blessens