Cordast

State :

Switzerland

Canton :

Freiburg (FR)

District :

lake

Municipality :

Gurmels

Postal code :

1792

former BFS no. :

XXXX

Coordinates :

578 102 / 191459 coordinates: 46 ° 52 '26 " N , 7 ° 9' 5" O ; CH1903: 578 102 / 191459

Height :

607 m above sea level M.

Residents:

890 (2002)

map

Parish before the merger on January 1, 2005

Cordast ( French La Corbaz ; Friborg Patois Kordà ^?^/^I ) is a town and formerly an independent political municipality in the lake district (French: District du Lac ) of the canton of Friborg in Switzerland . The French name of the village is La Corbaz (not to be confused with the place La Corbaz in the municipality of La Sonnaz ). On January 1, 2005, Cordast was incorporated into Gurmels .

geography

Cordast lies at 607 m above sea level. M. , two and a half kilometers southwest of Gurmels and eight kilometers north of the canton capital Friborg (as the crow flies). The village extends on a high plateau between the Biberental in the northwest and the Schiffenensee in the southeast, at the western foot of the Bulliardholz , in the northern Freiburg Central Plateau . The former municipality area was around 3.2 km². The area encompassed the Cordast plateau, reached in the east to the Bulliardholz ( 668 m above sea level ), in the north into the valley basin of the Cordastbach and on the ridge Lengi Zelg ( 610 m above sea level ), in the southwest to the forest heights Monterschuwald ( 667 m above sea level ) and Bouley ( 666 m above sea level ) and in the southeast to the catchment area of the Schiffenensee.

population

With 780 inhabitants (2002), Cordast was one of the smaller communities in the canton of Friborg before the merger. In 1850 the community had 329 inhabitants, in 1900 370 inhabitants. Especially since 1980 (342 inhabitants) there has been rapid population growth combined with a doubling of the number of inhabitants within 20 years. The residents are predominantly German-speaking. Some individual farms belong to Cordast.

economy

Cordast was a predominantly agricultural village until the second half of the 20th century . Even today, arable farming , fruit growing and animal husbandry have an important place in the income structure of the population. Further jobs are available in local small businesses and in the service sector. Companies in the construction and transport industry, metal construction, horticulture and WaterTec GmbH are based in Cordast. In the last few decades the village has also developed into a residential community. Many employed people are therefore commuters who mainly work in the Freiburg and Murten regions.

traffic

The village is located away from the larger thoroughfares on a connecting road from Courtepin to Gurmels . Cordast is connected to the public transport network by a regional bus line operated by the Freiburg Transport Authority , which runs between Gurmels and Courtepin train station.

history

The Cordast area was populated very early. Over 20 tumuli , some of which were rich in grave goods from the Hallstatt period, were found in the wood . The place was first mentioned in a document in 1294 under the name Corbath . Later the names Curbdast (1342), Gurdast (1363) and Curdast (1414) appeared.

Cordast has been owned by the Counts of Thierstein since the Middle Ages . In 1442 the village came under the rule of Freiburg through purchase and from then on belonged to the Old Landscape (Spitalpanner). After the collapse of the Ancien Régime (1798), Cordast initially belonged to the Murten district during the Helvetic Republic, from 1803 to the Freiburg district and from 1831 to the German district of Freiburg, before it was incorporated into the lake district in 1848 with the new cantonal constitution. In a fire in 1831, the village was badly affected.

As part of the community mergers funded by the canton of Friborg since 2000, the village population decided to merge with the neighboring community of Gurmels. However, since proceedings were pending before the cantonal administrative court until after the planned merger date, Cordast was incorporated into Gurmels with retroactive effect from January 1st .

Attractions

The Reformed Church of Cordast was built in 1874/75. The Catholic chapel of St. Gerinus dates from 1614.

Web links

Commons : Cordast - collection of images, videos and audio files

Official website of the municipality of Gurmels
Olivier Aebischer: Cordast. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Aerial views of the village
The transmission tower with the name Cordast