Esmonts

State :

Switzerland

Canton :

Freiburg (FR)

District :

Glane

Municipality :

Ursy

Postal code :

1670

former BFS no. :

2074

Coordinates :

554 506 / 165 807 coordinates: 46 ° 38 '31 " N , 6 ° 50' 40" O ; CH1903: 554506 / 165807

Height :

828 m above sea level M.

Area :

2.28 km²

Residents:

183 (December 31, 2005)

Population density :

80 inhabitants per km²

Website:

www.esmonts.ch

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Parish before the merger on January 1, 2006

Until December 31, 2005, Esmonts was a municipality in the Glane district of the canton of Friborg in Switzerland . With effect from January 1, 2006, the place was incorporated into Vuarmarens , which in turn merged with Ursy on January 1, 2012 .

geography

Esmonts is 828 m above sea level. M. , eight kilometers southwest of the district capital Romont (linear distance ). The farming village extends on a high plateau east of the Broye valley , in the southwest of the Freiburg Central Plateau .

The area of the 2.3 km² former municipal area comprised a section of the Molasse plateau east of the upper reaches of the Broye. The communal land stretched from the Bois du Mont above Ursy north across the plateau of Esmonts up in the headwaters of the Ruisseau des Vaux and reached at the height of Le Saulgy with 853 m above sea level. M. the highest point of Esmonts. The western part of the area is drained to the Broye, the eastern part to the Glâne . In 1997, 7% of the municipal area was accounted for by settlements, 16% for forests and trees and 77% for agriculture.

Some farm settlements and individual farms belong to Esmonts. Neighboring communities of Esmonts were Vuarmarens , Ursy and Siviriez in the canton of Friborg and Brenles in the canton of Vaud .

population

With 183 inhabitants (at the end of 2005), Esmonts was one of the small communities in the canton of Friborg. 98.1% of the residents are French-speaking, 1.3% German-speaking and 0.4% speak Portuguese (as of 2000). The population of Esmonts was 118 in 1850 and 168 in 1900. At the beginning of the 20th century , the population increased slowly until 1920 (203 inhabitants), before there was a decline of almost 50% to 115 people by 1980 due to strong emigration. Since then, the population has increased again.

economy

Esmonts was a predominantly agricultural village until the second half of the 20th century . Today who have dairy industry , the livestock and agriculture 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 the village has also developed into a residential community. Many workers are therefore commuters who work mainly in the Moudon and Oron-la-Ville regions.

traffic

The village is off the main thoroughfares, but can be easily reached from Ursy . Esmonts has no connection to the public transport network.

history

The place was first mentioned in a document in 996 under the name villa de Mont ; In 1832 the village was called ès Monts . The place name means in French en les monts (on the hills). King Rudolf III von Burgundy gave the area of Esmonts to the Abbey of Saint-Maurice in the 10th century and enfeoffed Knight Balfried in 996. The settlement later belonged to the Lords of Prez , who donated it to the Moudon Hospital in 1344. In the following years Esmonts belonged to the Savoy Bailiwick of Moudon.

When the Bernese conquered Vaud in 1536, the village came under the rule of Friborg and was assigned to the Bailiwick of Rue. After the collapse of the Ancien Régime (1798), Esmonts belonged to the Rue district during the Helvetic and the following period and was incorporated into the Glâne district in 1848. On January 1, 2006, the merger of Esmonts with Vuarmarens was completed, with the new municipality continuing to bear the name Vuarmarens. Esmonts does not have its own church, it belongs to the parish of Ursy-Morlens.

Attractions

Web links

Official website of the former municipality of Esmonts (French)
Evelyne Maradan: Esmonts. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .