Fiaugères

State :

Switzerland

Canton :

Freiburg (FR)

District :

Vivisbach

Municipality :

Saint-Martin (FR)

Postal code :

1609

former BFS no. :

XXXX

Coordinates :

557438 / 159 269 coordinates: 46 ° 35 '0 " N , 6 ° 53' 0" O ; CH1903: 557438 / 159 269

Height :

853 m above sea level M.

Residents:

187 (2002)

map

Parish before the merger on January 1, 2004

Fiaugères ( French [ fjɔʒɛʀ ]; also called Ville du Bois , Friborg patois Velâ-don-bou ^?^/^I ) is a town and formerly an independent political municipality in the Veveyse district (German: Vivisbach district) in the canton of Friborg in Switzerland . Since 2004, Fiaugères has been part of the municipality of Saint-Martin .

geography

Fiaugères lies at 853 m above sea level. M. , 13 km west-southwest of Bulle (linear distance). The scattered settlement extends in a promising location on the northern slope of the Mionna valley , in the Molasse hill country of the Haute-Veveyse east of the upper Broye , in the southwestern Freiburg Central Plateau . The former municipality area was around 3.9 km². The area reached from the Mionna northwards over the slope of Fiaugères to the wide ridge, which in the Haut de Fiaugères with 922 m above sea level. M. culminates. To the north of this is the Les Tourbières moorland .

population

With 187 inhabitants (2002), Fiaugères was one of the small communities in the canton of Friborg before the merger. In 1950 the community had 296 inhabitants, after which a significant population decline was recorded due to strong emigration. The hamlet of Haut de Fiaugères ( 922 m above sea level ) at the height of the same name as well as several farm settlements and individual farms also belonged to the scattered settlement community of Fiaugères .

economy

Fiaugères still lives from agriculture , especially dairy and cattle breeding . Thanks to the attractive location, families who are mainly employed outside of the village have moved into the village in the last two decades.

traffic

The village has good transport links. It is on the main road from Bulle to Oron-la-Ville . Fiaugères is connected to the public transport network by the bus line that runs from Oron-la-Ville to La Verrerie .

history

The first written mention of the place was around 1150 as Felgeria and Fergeria , in 1273 the name appears as Fiougiere , in 1488 as Villa dou bos es fyougires . The place name is derived from the Latin * filicāria , a derivative of filix 'bracken'.

In the municipality of Fiaugères, the monks of the Haut-Crêt Abbey owned rich property and operated a mill. Since the Middle Ages, the village has been under the rule of Oron, which was under the influence of the House of Savoy. With this rule Fiaugères came into the possession of the Counts of Gruyères in the late 14th century . After the last Count of Gruyères went bankrupt in 1554, the place passed into the possession of Freiburg in 1555 and was subsequently assigned to the Bailiwick of Rue . Until 1763 Fiaugères formed a single municipality together with the neighboring village of Besencens. After the collapse of the Ancien Régime in 1798, the village belonged to what was then the Rue district during the Helvetic and the following period before it was incorporated into the Veveyse district in 1848.

As part of the community mergers promoted by the canton of Friborg since 2000, the voters of Fiaugères voted on June 11, 2003 with a yes majority of 85% for the merger of their community with Saint-Martin and Besencens . With effect from January 1, 2004, Fiaugères was therefore incorporated into Saint-Martin.

Attractions

In Fiaugères there is the Notre-Dame de l'Immaculée chapel, which was consecrated in 1884 and has impressive paintings. The village belongs to the parish of Saint-Martin.

Web links

Jean-Claude Vial: Fiaugères. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Website of the school of Saint-Martin about Fiaugères (French)
Aerial views of the village

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Florence Cattin: Fiaugères FR (La Veveyse) in: Dictionnaire toponymique des communes suisses - Lexicon of Swiss community names - Dizionario toponomastico dei comuni svizzeri (DTS | LSG). Center de dialectologie, Université de Neuchâtel, Verlag Huber, Frauenfeld / Stuttgart / Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-7193-1308-5 and Éditions Payot, Lausanne 2005, ISBN 2-601-03336-3 , p. 354

[fc-1] Florence Cattin: Fiaugères FR (La Veveyse) in: Dictionnaire toponymique des communes suisses - Lexicon of Swiss community names - Dizionario toponomastico dei comuni svizzeri (DTS | LSG). Center de dialectologie, Université de Neuchâtel, Verlag Huber, Frauenfeld / Stuttgart / Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-7193-1308-5 and Éditions Payot, Lausanne 2005, ISBN 2-601-03336-3 , p. 354