Bouloz

State :

Switzerland

Canton :

Freiburg (FR)

District :

Vivisbach

Municipality :

Le Flon

Postal code :

1699

former BFS no. :

XXXX

Coordinates :

557 464 / 162975 coordinates: 46 ° 37 '0 " N , 6 ° 53' 0" O ; CH1903: 557464 / 162975

Height :

865 m above sea level M.

Residents:

270 (2002)

map

Parish before the merger on January 1, 2004

Bouloz ( French [ bulo ]; fpr. [ ˈBuːlu ]) is a village and formerly an independent political municipality in the Vivisbach district of the Swiss canton of Friborg . Bouloz has been part of the new municipality of Le Flon since 2004 and is the seat of its municipal administration.

geography

Bouloz is 865 m above sea level. M. , nine kilometers north of the district capital Châtel-Saint-Denis (beeline). The village extends in a promising location on the ridge north of the Flon valley, east of the upper Broyetal , in the Molasse hill country of the southwest Freiburg Central Plateau . The former municipality area was around 3.8 km². The area reached from the valley of the Flon northwards over the ridge of Bouloz with the forest heights of La Râpe ( 888 m above sea level ) and La Tossaire ( 942 m above sea level ) to the headwaters of the Glâne .

population

With 270 inhabitants (2002), Bouloz was one of the small communities in the canton of Friborg before the merger. Since 1950 (211 inhabitants) the population has increased significantly. Bouloz includes the hamlet of Les Grandes-Bruyères ( 865 m above sea level ) on the ridge to the west of Bouloz and several farm settlements and individual farms.

economy

Until the second half of the 20th century, Bouloz was a predominantly agricultural village. Even today, dairy farming , animal husbandry and, to a lesser extent, arable farming play an important role in the income structure of the population. Further 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 thanks to its attractive location. Many workers are therefore commuters who work mainly in the Romont , Bulle and Oron regions.

traffic

The village is on the main road from Romont to Oron-la-Ville . Bouloz is connected to the public transport network by the Transports publics Fribourgeois bus line , which runs from Romont via Oron-la-Ville to Palézieux-Gare .

history

The place was first mentioned in a document in 1018 as Bedolosci , in the middle of the 12th century the place name appears in the forms Bolohc / Boloch / Bolosc / Bolocs / Boolo / Bolos . It possibly goes back to a Gallo-Roman word * betullosko 'birch grove'.

At the beginning of the 11th century, King Rudolf III. of Burgundy his goods in Bouloz the Abbey of Saint-Maurice . From the middle of the 12th century, the village lords transferred their property in several stages to the newly founded Haut-Crêt monastery . The Hauterive monastery also owned land in the municipality.

When Berne conquered Vaud in 1536, Bouloz 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 what was then the Rue district during the Helvetic and the following period, before being incorporated into the Veveyse district in 1848. Bouloz does not have its own church, it belongs to the parish of Porsel.

As part of the community mergers promoted by the canton of Friborg since 2000, the voters of Bouloz voted on June 10, 2003 with a majority of 97% for a merger of their community with Porsel and Pont (Veveyse) . With effect from January 1, 2004, the municipality of Le Flon was created , which was named after the stream Flon, which crossed all three previous municipal areas.

Web links

Official website of the municipality of Le Flon
Marianne Rolle: Bouloz. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Aerial views of the village

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b Nicolas Pépin: Bouloz FR (La Veveyse) in: Dictionnaire toponymique des communes suisses - Lexicon of the names of Swiss municipalities - 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. 178.

[np-1] A ^b Nicolas Pépin: Bouloz FR (La Veveyse) in: Dictionnaire toponymique des communes suisses - Lexicon of the names of Swiss municipalities - 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. 178.