Cormérod

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Cormérod
Coat of arms of Cormérod
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Canton of FriborgCanton of Friborg Freiburg (FR)
District : lakew
Municipality : Misery Courtioni2
Postal code : 1721
former BFS no. : XXXX
Coordinates : 572910  /  190 677 coordinates: 46 ° 52 '0 "  N , 7 ° 5' 0"  O ; CH1903:  572910  /  one hundred ninety thousand six hundred seventy-seven
Height : 600  m above sea level M.
Residents: 154 (1990)
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Cormérod (Switzerland)
Cormérod
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Parish before the merger on January 1, 1997

Cormérod is a town and formerly an independent political municipality in the lake district (French: District du Lac) in the canton of Friborg in Switzerland . The former German place name Kormerat is no longer used today. On January 1, 1997, Cormérod merged with Cournillens , Courtion and Misery to form the new municipality of Misery-Courtion .

geography

Cormérod is 600  m above sea level. M. , nine kilometers northwest of the canton capital of Friborg (as the crow flies). The street village stretches in a panoramic location on a gently sloping south-facing slope of the Mont , in the Molasse hill country between the Broye plain and the Saane valley , in the northern Freiburg Central Plateau . The former municipality area was around 2.8 km². The area comprised the gently undulating plateau, reaching in the west to the edge of the Chandon valley , in the northwest to the forest area of Mont Levant ( 603  m above sea level ) and in the north over the Mont ( 632  m above sea level ) Hollow of Corterey .

population

With 154 inhabitants (1990), Cormérod was one of the small communities in the canton of Friborg before the merger. In 1850 the community had 173 inhabitants, in 1900 235 inhabitants. The village is mostly French-speaking.

economy

Until the middle of the 20th century, Cormérod was a predominantly agricultural village. 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, including in an information technology company. 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 Courtion to Courtepin . Cormérod is connected to the public transport network by the Transports publics Fribourgeois bus line , which runs from Freiburg to Cournillens.

history

The area of ​​Cormérod was already inhabited in Roman times. In 1830, an important mosaic from the 3rd century AD was discovered in the remains of a Roman villa. It depicts Theseus fighting with the Minotaur in the labyrinth. The mosaic was bought by the canton and is now in the University of Friborg.

The first written mention of the place took place in 1142 under the name Cormoral . Later the spellings Cormoraul (13th century), Cormeraul (1369) and Cormeraud (1483) appeared. The place name is probably due to Curtis Moraldi (court of the Maurwald).

In the Middle Ages , Cormérod belonged to different owners. In 1442 the village came under the rule of Freiburg and was henceforth part of the old landscape (Spitalpanner). After the collapse of the Ancien Régime (1798), Cormérod belonged to the then Friborg district of Avenches during the Helvetic period and from 1803 to the district of Friborg before it was incorporated into the lake district in 1848 with the new cantonal constitution.

In 1996, the residents of the parishes of Cormérod, Misery, Courtion and Cournillens decided to merge. As a result, one of the first major municipal mergers in the canton of Friborg took place on January 1, 1997. The new parish was given the double name Misery-Courtion.

Attractions

The Saint-Antoine-l'Ermite chapel was built in 1634 and changed in the neo-Gothic style in 1868 . Cormérod belongs to the parish of Courtion. The schoolhouse dates from 1873.

literature

  • Hermann Schöpfer: Les monuments d'art et d'histoire du Canton de Friborg, Tome IV: Le District du lac (I). Edited by the Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Bern 1989 (Art Monuments of Switzerland, Volume 81). ISBN 3-909158-21-8 . Pp. 86-90.

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