Cugy FR

FR is the abbreviation for the canton of Friborg in Switzerland and is used to avoid confusion with other entries of the name Cugy .

Cugy
State :	Switzerland
Canton :	Freiburg (FR)
District :	Broye
BFS no. :	2011
Postal code :	1482
Coordinates :	558 192  /  184 987 coordinates: 46 ° 48 '53 "  N , 6 ° 53' 27"  O ; CH1903:  558,192  /  one hundred eighty-four thousand nine hundred eighty-seven
Height :	475  m above sea level M.
Height range :	445–653 m above sea level M.
Area :	9.88  km²
Residents:	1752 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	177 inhabitants per km²
Website:	www.cugy-fr.ch
Location of the municipality

Cugy ( Freiburger Patois Kudji ^{? / I} ) is a municipality in the Broye district in the canton of Friborg in Switzerland . On January 1, 2005, the previously independent municipality Vesin was incorporated into Cugy.

geography

Cugy lies at 475  m above sea level. M. , 3.5 km west of Payerne (air line) in the Friborg exclave of Estavayer-le-Lac . The village is slightly elevated on the southwest edge of the Broye plain , at the foot of the Molasse hill country between Lake Neuchâtel and the Broyetal, in the northwestern Freiburg Central Plateau .

The area of ​​the 9.9 km² municipal area covers a section of the Molasse hill country west of the Broye. In the north, Cugy has a small portion of the Broye plain in the Petite Glâne area . From here the municipality extends southward into a gently undulating hill country with the partly wooded heights of La Râpe ( 525  m above sea level ), Aléri ( 559  m above sea level ) and Bois des Invuardes ( 571  m above sea level ), subdivided by small valleys, hollows and plateaus. To the southwest, the area of ​​the municipality extends over the valley of the village creek of Vesin to the height of Les Vuarnes ( 600  m above sea level ) and on the ridge of the Bois d'Aumont , on which 651  m above sea level. M. the highest point of Cugy is reached. In 1997, 8% of the municipal area was accounted for by settlements, 19% for forests and woodlands and 73% for agriculture.

The village of Vesin ( 515  m above sea level ), the hamlets of Moulin de Glâne ( 455  m above sea level ) in the Broye plain on the Petite Glâne and Grange des Bois ( 525  m above sea level ) on a plateau belong to Cugy on the eastern edge of the Bois des Invuardes and a few individual farms. Neighboring municipalities to Cugy are Fétigny , Ménières , Les Montets and Estavayer in the canton of Friborg and Payerne in the canton of Vaud .

population

With 1752 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2018), Cugy is one of the medium-sized communities in the canton of Friborg. 91.8% of the residents are French-speaking, 3.1% German-speaking and 1.1% speak Italian (as of 2000). The population of Cugy was 997 in 1900. In the course of the 20th century the population always fluctuated in the range of 880 to 980 inhabitants. Only since 1980 (928 inhabitants) has there been significant population growth.

economy

Until the second half of the 20th century, Cugy was predominantly an agricultural village. Even today, arable farming , tobacco cultivation , as well as dairy farming and cattle breeding have an important place in the income structure of the population. Further jobs are available in local small businesses and in the service sector. Today, construction, information technology and precision engineering workshops are represented in the community. Cugy has been the headquarters of the Agri-Center de la Broye (ACB), an agricultural cooperative in the lower Broye Valley, since 1959. From 1965 to 1975 there was also a dial factory. In the last few decades the village has developed into a residential community. Many employed people are therefore commuters who mainly work in the Payerne and Estavayer-le-Lac regions.

traffic

The community is very well developed in terms of transport. It is located on the old main road from Yverdon-les-Bains to Payerne . The nearest connection to the A1 motorway (Lausanne-Bern), which opened in 2001 and crosses the north of the municipality, is around 3 km from the town center. On February 1, 1877, the railway line from Yverdon to Payerne with a station in Cugy was put into operation. A bus line from Transports publics Fribourgeois , which serves the hilly hinterland from Estavayer-le-Lac, takes care of the fine distribution in public transport .

history

The municipality of Cugy was populated very early, which has been proven by finds of objects from Roman times . The place was first mentioned in a document in 968 under the name in villa Cuzziaco . Later the names Cubizaca , Cubizasca (1079), Cuzei (1142), Cubizacha (1145), Cuzzie (1228), Cugie (1230), Cuzie (1233) and Cugiez (1254). The origin of the place name is not clearly established. Cugy probably goes back to the Latin nickname Cupidus ; but it could also have its origin in the Celtic vocabulary.

Old coat of arms of Cugy

The area around Cugy came in 968 through a donation to the Bishop of Lausanne, who founded a parish here. The Montheron Monastery also owned land in the municipality, which it ceded to the Hauterive Monastery in 1230 . Since the 12th century , Cugy was under the rule of a branch of the lords of Estavayer, who took the name de Cuzei . The rule Cugy that the places Vesin , Granges-de-Vesin , Fétigny and Ménières included, came in 1329 as a fief to the barons of Montagny and 1477 under the rule of Freiburg. In 1536, after the Bernese had conquered Vaud, the village was allocated to the Estavayer Bailiwick.

After the collapse of the Ancien Régime (1798), Cugy belonged to the Estavayer district during the Helvetic and subsequent periods and was incorporated into the Broye district in 1848. As part of the community mergers funded by the canton of Friborg since 2000, the previously politically independent community Vesin was incorporated into Cugy with effect from January 1, 2005. At the same time, a new municipal coat of arms was introduced.

Attractions

See also : List of cultural assets in Cugy FR

church

The parish church of Cugy was built in the 16th century and redesigned and enlarged in 1906–1907. The village has two castles: La Cour (courtyard) and Le Château (castle) from the 16th century, which now houses the primary school. Along the Dorfstrasse there are a number of characteristic farmhouses from the 17th to 19th centuries.

Daughters and sons of the church

• Richard Chassot (* 1970), President of the Swiss Cycling Association and former racing cyclist

Web links

Commons : Cugy, Friborg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of the municipality of Cugy (French)
• Marianne Rolle: Cugy (FR). In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Aerial views of the village

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Permanent and non-permanent resident population by year, canton, district, municipality, population type and gender (permanent resident population). In: bfs. admin.ch . Federal Statistical Office (FSO), August 31, 2019, accessed on December 22, 2019 .