Courtaman

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Courtaman
Courtaman Coat of Arms
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Canton of FriborgCanton of Friborg Freiburg (FR)
District : lakew
Municipality : Courtepini2
Postal code : 1791
former BFS no. : XXXX
UN / LOCODE : CH YHM
Coordinates : 576 492  /  191249 coordinates: 46 ° 52 '19 "  N , 7 ° 7' 49"  O ; CH1903:  five hundred and seventy-six thousand four hundred ninety-two  /  191249
Height : 591  m above sea level M.
Residents: 1083 (2002)
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Courtaman (Switzerland)
Courtaman
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Parish before the merger on January 1, 2003

Courtaman ( French [kuʀtamã] , in the Franco-Provencal local dialect [a kurtaˈmã] , Swiss German [ˈgʊrtəˌmaː] ) is a town and formerly an independent political municipality in the lake district (French: District du Lac) of the Swiss canton of Friborg . Despite its location on the linguistic border and the bilingual population, the municipality does not have a German name in official usage. On January 1, 2003, Courtaman was incorporated into Courtepin .

geography

Courtaman lies at 591  m above sea level. M. , 7.5 km north-northwest of the canton capital Friborg (linear distance). The village extends on a slope gently sloping to the northwest in the headwaters of the Biberen (French: La Bibera), in the Molasse hill country between Lake Murten and the Saane Valley , in the northern Freiburg Central Plateau . The former municipality area was around 1.2 km². It reached from the valley low of the Biberen and the Bois de la Râpe to the southeast over the slope of Courtaman to the Studenmatte and to the edge of the Monterschu forest (up to 650  m above sea level ).

population

With 1,083 inhabitants (2002), Courtaman was one of the medium-sized municipalities in the canton of Friborg before the merger. In 1850 the community had 129 inhabitants, in 1900 156 inhabitants. The village has long been bilingual; in 1900, 101 residents spoke French and 55 German. Today the settlement area of ​​Courtaman has merged seamlessly with that of Courtepin.

economy

Courtaman was a predominantly agricultural village until the middle of the 20th century . Today agriculture , fruit growing and cattle breeding have only a minor role in the income structure of the population. Further jobs are available in local small businesses and in the service sector. Larger businesses and a tank farm have settled in the valley of the Biberen since the 1960s. Companies in the building trade, mechanical engineering and companies that manufacture heat pumps are represented in the village. Courtaman has been the location of the Foyer Saint-Joseph, a training center for the disabled, since 1956. 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 community is very well developed in terms of transport. It is located above the main road from Freiburg to Murten . The closest connection to the A12 motorway (Bern – Vevey) is around 6 km from the town center. Courtaman is connected to the public transport network through the Postbus course, which runs from Murten via Gurmels to Courtepin train station .

history

The municipality was already settled in Roman times, which has been proven by finds of wall remains, bricks and two bronze statuettes. The first written mention of the place took place in 1309 in the form of the name Cortemant . The place name is a combination of Romanesque corte "Hof" (from Latin cohorte "fenced place, courtyard space , enclosure") with a two-part Germanic male first name, which can no longer be determined with certainty due to the late tradition of the place name; The name Manto can be used as a second word component .

Courtaman was part of the possession of the Counts of Thierstein in the Middle Ages . In 1418 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 in 1798, Courtaman belonged to the district of Freiburg during the Helvetic and the following period and from 1831 to the German district of Freiburg, before it was incorporated into the lake district in 1848 with the new cantonal constitution.

Courtaman was incorporated into Courtepin with effect from January 1, 2003 as part of the community mergers promoted by the canton of Friborg since 2000 .

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  1. ↑ a b Lexicon of Swiss municipality names . Edited by the Center de Dialectologie at the University of Neuchâtel under the direction of Andres Kristol. Frauenfeld / Lausanne 2005, p. 272 ​​f.
  2. ↑ Geographical Lexicon of Switzerland , Vol. I, p. 555.