Delley Portalban

Delley Portalban
State :	Switzerland
Canton :	Freiburg (FR)
District :	Broye
BFS no. :	2051
Postal code :	1567 Delley 1568 Portalban
Coordinates :	564131  /  195 912 coordinates: 46 ° 54 '48 "  N , 6 ° 58' 4"  O ; CH1903:  564131  /  one hundred and ninety-five thousand nine hundred and twelve
Height :	497  m above sea level M.
Height range :	429-527 m above sea level M.
Area :	6.90  km²
Residents:	1148 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	166 inhabitants per km²
Website:	www.delley-portalban.ch
Location of the municipality

Delley-Portalban is a municipality in the Broye district in the canton of Friborg in Switzerland . It was created on January 1, 2005 through the merger of the previously independent municipalities of Delley and Portalban ( Friborg Patois Pouraban ^{? / I} ; German formerly Portelbank ).

geography

Delley-Portalban is 10 km north of Payerne (as the crow flies). Portalban extends on the south-east bank of Lake Neuchâtel , opposite the city of Neuchâtel , on the Ruisseau de la Contentenette stream , while Delley lies on the adjacent wide ridge between the lake and the Broye plain , in the north-western Freiburg Central Plateau.

The area of ​​the 7.2 km² municipal area comprises a section on the southeastern shore of Lake Neuchâtel (around 2.5 km of the lakeshore line). In the area of ​​Delley-Portalban the lake has a shallow up to 700 m wide shoreline, which, with the exception of the area at Portalban, consists of a belt of reeds and swamp forest ( Les Grèves ). From the flat edge of the bank, the community floor extends southeast over a 40 m high steep slope to the Molasse ridge , the plateau of which is on average 500  m above sea level. M. lies. The three erosion valleys in the catchment area of ​​the Ruisseau de la Contentenette , which flows into Lake Neuchâtel at Portalban, are cut into this plateau . The municipality reaches its highest point in the south at 525  m above sea level. M. in the corridor Sur le Mont . In 1997, 10% of the municipal area was in settlements, 14% in forests and woodlands, 65% in agriculture and around 11% was unproductive land (reed belt).

Delley-Portalban consists of the two villages Delley ( 497  m above sea level ) and Portalban , the latter being divided into the districts Portalban-Dessous ( 435  m above sea level ) on the flat edge of the bank and Portalban-Dessus ( 475  m above sea level) . ) is divided on the high plateau. Before the merger, the municipal boundary between Delley and Portalban ran along the Ruisseau de la Contentenette and separated Portalban lingerie into a part belonging to Portalban to the left of the creek and a part belonging to Delley to the right of the creek. The hamlet of Farvageux ( 502  m above sea level ) on the plateau on the southern outskirts of Delley and some individual farms also belong to the municipality. Neighboring municipalities to Delley-Portalban are Gletterens , Vallon and Saint-Aubin in the canton of Friborg and Vully-les-Lacs in the canton of Vaud .

population

With 1,148 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2018), Delley-Portalban is one of the smaller municipalities in the canton of Friborg. Of the residents, 85.3% are French-speaking, 12.2% German-speaking and 1.6% speak Albanian (as of 2000). The population of Delley-Portalban was 493 in 1900. During the 20th century, the population always fluctuated between 450 and 540 inhabitants. Only since 1980 (450 inhabitants) has a significant increase in population been recorded.

economy

Delley-Portalban was a predominantly agricultural village until the second half of the 20th century . Even today, the have farming , the fruit-growing , as well as the livestock an important role in the employment structure of the population. Further jobs are available in local small businesses and in the service sector. In the last few decades, Delley-Portalban has also developed into a residential community thanks to its attractive location. Many employed people are therefore commuters who mainly work in the Payerne and Estavayer-le-Lac regions.

tourism

Since the 1970s, Delley-Portalban has made efforts to stimulate tourism. Numerous holiday and weekend homes have been built in the flat zone near the lakeshore, as well as a campsite, sports and leisure facilities and a large pleasure boat harbor.

traffic

The community is located off the main thoroughfares, but can be easily reached from Avenches and Payerne . The closest connection to the A1 motorway (Lausanne-Bern), which opened in 1997, is around 6 km from the town center. The two villages are connected to the public transport network by a bus line operated by Transports publics Fribourgeois , which runs from Domdidier to Portalban (partly to Gletterens). Portalban also has a direct connection with Neuchâtel and other Seeanstösser communities through passenger shipping on Lake Neuchâtel .

history

prehistory

Prehistoric cultural sequence in Switzerland

The lakeshore at Delley-Portalban was settled very early, which was confirmed by the finds of settlement traces from the Neolithic . The 2011 archaeological investigation of station 11 in Delley-Portalban yielded finds from the end of the Swiss Neolithic. Among other things, a wheel fragment made of maple wood came to light, which was relatively well preserved due to its partial charring. The diameter of the wheel was about 55 cm. Ash strips connected the segments of the two-part wheel, which probably belonged to a triangular car , as it was reconstructed in the neighboring open-air museum "Village Lacustre Gletterens". The age determination using the C14 method and dendrochronology allows the fragment to be around 2800 BC. BC, in the final phase of the Lüscherz culture.

Other two-part wheels that come from finds in Switzerland from cord ceramics and the “Auvernier Cordé” are younger than the fragment from Delley-Portalban. Timely specimens from southern Germany and are dated to around 2900 BC. Dated. The Delley-Portalban wheel is a "missing link" between the wheels of the wetland settlements in southern Germany and Switzerland.

history

The first written mention of Delley took place in 1342 under the name Deler . Portalban was first mentioned in writing as Poraban and Porabant as early as 1166 . Later the names capella de Portubanni (1182), Portu Arbano (1330) and again Poraban (1668) appeared. This place name goes back to the word port (port) and the Latin personal name Albanus .

From a fiefdom of the Lausanne cathedral chapter a lordship developed in the 13th century, which included Delley, Portalban and the hamlet of Agnens, which was abandoned in the 16th century. The rule of Delley came under the influence of the House of Savoy and in the 14th century, after the lords of Delley were impoverished, passed into the possession of the lords of Estavayer. Later the rulership experienced several changes of ownership.

After Bern had conquered Vaud in 1536, Delley and Portalban came under the rule of Friborg and were assigned to the Estavayer Bailiwick, forming an exclave with Vallon. After the collapse of the Ancien Régime (1798), the villages belonged to the Estavayer district until 1803, then to the Montagny district and from 1831 to the Dompierre district before being incorporated into the Broye district in 1848.

As part of the community mergers funded by the canton of Friborg since 2000, a merger of Delley, Portalban and Gletterens was initially up for debate. While Gletterens opposed a merger and withdrew from the project, the villagers of Delley and Portalban voted for the merger with a yes majority of around 90%. This became legally effective on January 1, 2005 and the new municipality with the name Delley-Portalban was created.

Attractions

See also : List of cultural assets in Delley-Portalban

church

The parish church of Delley was built in 1713. At the northern exit of the village is Delley Castle, which was built in the early 18th century and later changed several times. The Saint-Antoine de Padoue chapel, which dates from 1710 and has stained glass paintings from the 18th century, is located in the castle park . Stately farmhouses from the 17th to 19th centuries have been preserved in both villages.

Personalities

• Jacques Dedelley (1694–1757), theologian and philosopher

Web links

Commons : Delley-Portalban  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of the municipality of Delley-Portalban (French)
• Marianne Rolle: Delley. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Aerial views of Delley
• Aerial views of Portalban

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 . 
2. ↑ M. Mauvilly In: Archeology of Switzerland 35; Issue 2012.1; P. 39