Cournillens

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Cournillens
Cournillens coat of arms
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Canton of FriborgCanton of Friborg Freiburg (FR)
District : lakew
Municipality : Misery Courtioni2
Postal code : 1721
former BFS no. : XXXX
Coordinates : 574173  /  188819 coordinates: 46 ° 51 '0 "  N , 7 ° 6' 0"  O ; CH1903:  574173  /  188819
Height : 575  m above sea level M.
Residents: 264 (1990)
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Cournillens (Switzerland)
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Parish before the merger on January 1, 1997

Cournillens ( Friborg Patois Kornilyin ? / I ) 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 Kurlin is hardly used today. On January 1, 1997, Cournillens merged with Cormérod, Courtion and Misery to form the new municipality of Misery-Courtion . Audio file / audio sample

geography

Cournillens lies at 575  m above sea level. M. , seven kilometers northwest of the canton capital Friborg (beeline). The street village extends on the Molasse plateau between the Broye plain and the Saane valley , in the northern Freiburg Central Plateau . The former municipality area was around 4.1 km². The area comprised the slightly undulating plateau, which is drained to the east to the Saane. In the south it reached into the forest areas Bois de Cudre and Bois de la Corbaz (up to 670  m above sea level ), in the east into the Bois de l'Hôpital .

population

With 264 inhabitants (1990), Cournillens was one of the small municipalities in the canton of Friborg before the merger. In 1850 the community had 251 inhabitants, in 1900 331 inhabitants. Cournillens has several farm settlements and individual farms. The village is mostly French-speaking.

economy

Until the middle of the 20th century, Cournillens 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. Other jobs are available in local small businesses and in the service sector, including in a wood processing 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 off the main thoroughfares on a connecting road from Misery to Courtepin . The village is connected to the public transport network by the Transports publics Fribourgeois bus route , which runs from Freiburg to Cournillens.

history

The place was first mentioned in a document around the year 1000 under the name Corlingino . Later, the names Curlinin (1228), Curnillin (1252), Cornilins (1312), Curnellin (1340), Curnilliens (1369) and still in 1906 Curnillens appeared . The place name is probably derived from the Gallo-Roman surname Cornelius .

In the Middle Ages, various gentlemen owned land in the Cournillens area , including the Hauterive monastery and the Burgerspital von Freiburg. As part of the conflict in the Laupenkrieg , Cournillens was devastated by the Bernese in 1339. 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), Cournillens 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 Cournillens, Misery, Courtion and Cormérod 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-Léger chapel probably dates back to the early 11th century. It has a pointed barrel choir from the 12th or 13th century in the style of the Cistercian places of worship and developed into a well-known place of pilgrimage with a hermitage from the 15th century. The last renovation took place between 1975 and 1977.

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. 113-132.

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