Dompierre FR

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

Dompierre

State :

Switzerland

Canton :

Freiburg (FR)

District :

Broye

Municipality :

Belmont-Broye

Postal code :

1563

former BFS no. :

2014

Coordinates :

565658 / 189170 coordinates: 46 ° 51 '10 " N , 6 ° 59' 18" O ; CH1903: 565658 / 189170

Height :

470 m above sea level M.

Area :

4.45 km²

Residents:

994 (December 31, 2014)

Population density :

223 inhabitants per km²

Website:

www.belmont-broye.ch

Dompierre

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Parish before the merger on January 1, 2016

Dompierre ( Friborg Patois Donpyérou ^?^/^I ) was a municipality in the Broye district of the canton of Friborg in Switzerland until December 31, 2015 . On January 1, 2016, it merged with the municipalities of Domdidier , Léchelles and Russy to form the new municipality of Belmont-Broye .

geography

Dompierre is 470 m above sea level. M. , five kilometers northeast of Payerne (straight line). The clustered village extends on a hill created by the Ice Age Rhone Glacier and in the basin to the south of it, on the southern edge of the Broye plain , in the northwestern Freiburg Central Plateau .

The area of the 4.5 km² former municipal area includes a section of the Broye plain and the adjacent Molasse hill country . The main part of the area lies in the flat Broye plain (Flur Terrailles ) and extends northward over the straightened Arbogne to the canalised river of the Broye. To the south, the former municipality extends over the hill of Dompierre and the wide valley basin of the Ruisseau de la Baume to the lower slopes of the Grand Belmont , where at 510 m above sea level. M. the highest point of Dompierre is reached. In 1997, 9% of the former municipal area was in settlements, 1% in forests and woodlands, 89% in agriculture and a little more than 1% was unproductive land.

A few individual farms belong to Dompierre. Neighboring communities of Dompierre were Domdidier and Russy in the canton of Friborg and Corcelles-près-Payerne and Missy in the canton of Vaud .

population

With 994 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2014) Dompierre was one of the smaller communities in the canton of Friborg. 94.7% of the residents are French-speaking, 2.4% German-speaking and 1.4% speak Albanian (as of 2000). The population of Dompierre was 431 in 1850, and 544 in 1900. In the course of the 20th century, the population rose slowly to 609 inhabitants by 1950. After that, a decrease of more than 20% to 485 people was observed by 1970 due to strong emigration. Since then, the population has grown again significantly.

economy

Until the middle of the 20th century, Dompierre was predominantly an agricultural village. Even today, thanks to the fertile soils in the Broye plain, arable farming (sugar beet), fruit growing , tobacco cultivation and animal husbandry play an important role in the livelihood of the population. Other jobs are available in local small businesses and in the service sector, including in transport and construction, in a joinery and a biscuit factory. In the past few decades, Dompierre has also developed into a residential community. Many workers are therefore commuters who work mainly in the Payerne and Freiburg regions.

traffic

The former community is well developed in terms of traffic. It is located on main road 1 from Bern via Payerne to Lausanne , which was very busy before the opening of the autobahn from Bern to western Switzerland. The closest connection to the A1 motorway (Lausanne-Bern), which opened in 1997, is around 5 km from the town center. On August 25, 1876, the railway line from Murten to Payerne with a station in Dompierre was put into operation. The BLS only serves the station by means of a Regios, which shuttles back and forth between Payerne and Murten (-Bern).

history

Historic aerial photo by Werner Friedli from 1964

The town was first mentioned in a document in 587, when the Bishop of Lausanne gave the Payerne monastery property in Dompierre. Later the names Dommun Petri (961), Donperre (1137), Domnus Petrus (1180), Dunpero (1200) and Donperro (1228) appeared. For a long time the municipality was also called Dompierre-près-Payerne and Dompierre-le-Petit (this in contrast to Dompierre-le-Grand , today's hamlet of Carignan on the northern side of the Broye plain). The place name is derived from Domnus Petrus (Saint Peter).

Since the Middle Ages , Dompierre formed its own small lordship, which came to the Lords of Montagny in 1267 and under the influence of the House of Savoy in 1405 . In 1478 the village came under the sovereignty of Freiburg through purchase and was assigned to the Vogtei Montagny. After Bern had conquered Vaud in 1536, there were several disputes with Bern, which considered the monastery of Payerne to be its property.

After the collapse of the Ancien Régime (1798), Dompierre belonged to the Avenches district until 1803, then to the Montagny district and from 1831 to the newly created Dompierre district before it was incorporated into the Broye district in 1848.

Attractions

The parish of Dompierre was probably established as early as the 6th century under the then Bishop of Lausanne. Today's parish church of Saint-Pierre-et-Paul goes back to a church from 1525, but was rebuilt almost from scratch between 1866 and 1869. The two-storey castle was built in 1637, later changed several times and was the seat of the prefecture from 1814 to 1848. In the town center there are some stately farmhouses from the 17th to 19th centuries.

Web links

Commons : Dompierre FR - collection of images, videos and audio files

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