Formangueires

State :

Switzerland

Canton :

Freiburg (FR)

District :

Saane / Sarine

Municipality :

La Sonnaz

Postal code :

1782

former BFS no. :

XXXX

Coordinates :

575 455 / 186281 coordinates: 46 ° 49 '38 " N , 7 ° 7' 1" O ; CH1903: five hundred and seventy-five thousand four hundred and fifty-five / 186281

Height :

585 m above sea level M.

Residents:

56 (1981)

map

Parish before the merger on January 1, 1982

Formangueires ( Freiburger Patois Formandyêre ^?^/^I ) is a town and formerly an independent political municipality in the District de la Sarine (German: Saanebezirk) in the canton of Friborg in Switzerland . On January 1, 1982 Formangueires was united with Lossy in the new municipality of Lossy-Formangueires . Today it belongs to the municipality of La Sonnaz .

geography

Formangueires lies at 585 m above sea level. M. , four kilometers northwest of the canton capital Friborg (beeline). The village extends on a terrace on the southern slope of the Sonnaz , in the Molasse hills of the Freiburg Central Plateau . The former municipality area was around 1 km². The area reached from the broad valley floor of the Sonnaz southwards over the slope of Formangueires to the edge of the forest of the Bois de la Faye (up to 640 m above sea level ).

population

With 56 inhabitants (1981), Formangueires was one of the smallest municipalities in the canton of Friborg before the merger. In 1950 the village still had 74 inhabitants. Several individual farms belonged to Formangueires.

economy

Formangueires still lives from agriculture , especially from agriculture , fruit growing and cattle breeding . A mill used to be operated by the water power of the Sonnaz. In recent years the village has also developed into a residential community. Most of the employed are therefore commuters who mainly work in the Freiburg region.

traffic

The village is located off the main thoroughfares on a connecting road from Belfaux to Pensier. The closest connection to the A12 motorway (Bern-Vevey) is around 4 km from the town center. Formangueires has no direct connection to the public transport network. The nearest train station on the Freiburg - Murten railway line is in Belfaux (1 km from the town center).

history

The place was first mentioned in a document in 1294 under the names Villa Fromondeiri and Fromendeire . Later the names Fromenderie (1363) and Fromendeyri (1431) appeared. The place name is derived from the Latin word frumentum (grain).

Formangueires has been under the lords of Englisberg since the Middle Ages . From 1442 at the latest, the village came under the rule of Freiburg and was assigned to the Old Landscape (Spitalpanner). After the collapse of the Ancien Régime (1798), Formangueires belonged to the Friborg district during the Helvetic and the following period, before it was incorporated into the Saane district with the new cantonal constitution in 1848.

Formangueires and Lossy have been administered jointly since 1834. On January 1, 1982, therefore, the merger to the new municipality Lossy-Formangueires took place . This merged on January 1, 2004 with La Corbaz and Cormagens to form the municipality of La Sonnaz . Ecclesiastically Formangueires belongs to the parish of Belfaux.

Attractions

Web links

Official website of the municipality of La Sonnaz (French)
Marianne Rolle: Formangueires. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .