Bonnefontaine FR

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Bonnefontaine
Bonnefontaine coat of arms
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Canton of FriborgCanton of Friborg Freiburg (FR)
District : Saanew
Municipality : Le Moureti2
Postal code : 1724
former BFS no. : XXXX
Coordinates : 581 760  /  175821 coordinates: 46 ° 44 '0 "  N , 7 ° 12' 0"  O ; CH1903:  581 760  /  175821
Height : 766  m above sea level M.
Residents: 507 (2002)
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Bonnefontaine FR (Switzerland)
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Parish before the merger on January 1, 2003

Bonnefontaine ( Freiburger Patois Bounafontanna ? / I ) is a town and formerly an independent political municipality in the District de la Sarine (German: Saanebezirk) in the canton of Friborg in Switzerland . The former German name Muffethan is no longer used today. On January 1, 2003, Bonnefontaine was merged with five other municipalities in the new municipality of Le Mouret . Audio file / audio sample

geography

Bonnefontaine is 766  m above sea level. M. , eight kilometers south-southeast of the canton capital of Friborg (as the crow flies). The village extends slightly higher on the eastern slope of the Ruisseau de Montécu , in the hill country at the northern foot of the Alps. The former municipality area was around 4.2 km². The area is drained by the Ruisseau de Montécu and Rüdigrabenbach (forms the eastern border) to the Nesslerabach and with this to the Ärgera (French: Gérine). To the west of the valley of the Ruisseau de Montécu, the former municipal soil reached up to the height of Sonnenwil ( 869  m above sea level ). To the south it extended over the forest hill Le Poyet ( 945  m above sea level ) and the Burgerwald on the ridge of the Chrüzflue ( 1263  m above sea level ) and the Petit Cousimbert (up to 1420  m above sea level ).

population

With 507 inhabitants (2002) Bonnefontaine was one of the smaller municipalities in the canton of Friborg before the merger. Around 83% of the population is French-speaking. Bonnefontaine included Montécu ( 765  m above sea level ) west of the Ruisseau de Montécu valley, the eastern part of the hamlet of Le Pafuet ( 741  m above sea level ) in the Ruisseau du Pontet valley and various individual farms.

economy

Bonnefontaine was a predominantly agricultural village until the second half of the 20th century . The manufacture of straw hats was also widespread in the 19th century. Even today, dairy farming and cattle breeding and, to a lesser extent, arable farming play an important role in the income structure of the population. Some other jobs are available in local small businesses and in the service sector. In the last few decades the village has also developed into a residential community. Many workers are therefore commuters who mainly work in the Freiburg region.

traffic

The village is located away from the major thoroughfares, the main access is from Praroman . The village is connected to the public transport network by a bus from the Transports publics Fribourgeois , which runs from Freiburg to Bonnefontaine.

history

The first written mention of the place took place in 1149 under the name Bona Fontana in the meaning of good source , good well . Later the names Bonofonte (1150), Bonus fons (in the 12th century), Bonnefontaine (1237), Bunfontana (1270), Monfetan (1445), Munfotan (1449), Montfetan (1476), Boffetan (1490) and Muffetan ( 1668).

Since the Middle Ages , the Hauterive monastery had property and clearing rights in the Bonnefontaine area. From 1237 the village was a fiefdom under the Lords of Englisberg. In 1448 it was devastated by the Bernese who waged armed conflicts with Freiburg. In the course of the 15th century Bonnefontaine came under the rule of Freiburg and was assigned to the old landscape (Burgpanner). After the collapse of the Ancien Régime (1798), the village belonged to the La Roche district during the Helvetic period and to the Friborg district from 1803 before it was incorporated into the Saane district in 1848 with the new cantonal constitution.

On January 1, 1989, the previously independent village of Montécu was incorporated into Bonnefontaine. In 1996 the idea of ​​a large-scale community merger was born. On June 13, 2002, the voters of Bonnefontaine voted with a yes share of 62% for the merger. With effect from January 1, 2003, the previously independent municipalities Bonnefontaine, Essert (FR) , Montévraz , Oberried (FR) , Praroman and Zénauva were merged. The new parish was named Le Mouret .

Attractions

The Catholic Church of Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes was built in 1894 and is a place of pilgrimage. Since 1898 it has also been a parish church; before Bonnefontaine belonged to the parish Praroman.

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