Fräschels

Fräschels
State :	Switzerland
Canton :	Freiburg (FR)
District :	lake
BFS no. :	2258
Postal code :	3284
Coordinates :	582 485  /  205217 coordinates: 46 ° 59 '52 "  N , 7 ° 12' 30"  O ; CH1903:  582485  /  205217
Height :	457  m above sea level M.
Height range :	434-519 m above sea level M.
Area :	3.11  km²
Residents:	464 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	149 inhabitants per km²
Website:	www.fraeschels.ch
Fräschels
Location of the municipality

Fräschels is a municipality in the lake district (French: District du Lac) in the canton of Friborg in Switzerland . The French name of the municipality is Frasses (Lac) , in contrast to the village of Frasses in the municipality of Les Montets .

geography

Fräschels is 457  m above sea level. M. , 10 km northeast of the district capital Murten (linear distance). The farming village extends on the eastern edge of the Grosse Moos , at the foot of the adjacent Molasse heights, in the northern Freiburg Central Plateau . Fräschels is the northernmost municipality in the canton of Friborg.

The area of ​​the 3.1 km² municipal area includes a section of the Grosse Moos. A little more than half of the area is taken up by the agriculturally intensively used level of the Grosse Moos with the corridors Grossmoos , Wilerschritten and Fräschelsmoos . The plain is crossed by the Great Canal . To the east, the municipality extends over the slope of Fräschels and the Oberfeld to the adjacent Molasse heights with the Fräschelswald , in which at 516  m above sea level. M. the highest point of Fräschels is reached. In 1997, 12% of the municipal area was in settlements, 17% in forests and woodlands, 70% in agriculture and a little more than 1% was unproductive land.

A few individual farms belong to Fräschels. Neighboring communities of Fräschels are Kerzers in the canton of Friborg and Kallnach in the canton of Bern .

population

With 464 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2018), Fräschels is one of the small communities in the canton of Friborg. 95.0% of the residents speak German, 2.1% speak Macedonian and 0.8% speak French (as of 2000). The population of Fräschels was 291 in 1850 and 295 in 1900. After a peak in 1960 with 338 inhabitants, the population decreased by around 20% to 268 people by 1980. Since then, the population has grown again significantly.

economy

Until the second half of the 20th century, Fräschels was a village dominated by agriculture . Even today arable farming , vegetable growing and fruit growing have an important place in the income structure of the population. Further jobs are available in local small businesses and in the service sector. In Fräschels there is a brick factory, a gardening business and a company that repairs agricultural equipment and machines. In the last few decades the village has also developed into a residential community. Many employed people are therefore commuters who mainly work in the Kerzers and Aarberg regions.

traffic

The community is very well developed in terms of transport. It is on the main road from Kerzers to Lyss . The closest connection to the A1 motorway (Bern-Lausanne) is around 4 km from the town center. On June 12, 1876, the railway line from Murten to Lyss with a train station in Fräschels was put into operation.

history

Historic aerial photo by Werner Friedli from June 25, 1954

The community area of ​​Fräschels was settled very early. Individual finds date from the Neolithic , while a burial mound is dated to the Hallstatt period. Individual remains have been found from the Roman road that had connected Aventicum with Petinesca.

The first written mention of the place took place in 1225 under the name Frescin ; The French name Frasses is documented from 1228 . The place name is derived from the Latin word fraxinus (ash). Since the Middle Ages Fräschels has been under the rule of Murten. In 1484 the village came under the joint administration of the estates of Bern and Friborg as part of the bailiwick of Murten.

In 1795 the so-called Moos War broke out, a dispute between the Friborg and Bernese communities over property in the Grosse Moos plain. After the collapse of the Ancien Régime (1798), the village came to the canton of Friborg. During the Helvetic Republic and the following period it belonged to the Murten district before it was incorporated into the lake district in 1848 with the new cantonal constitution. Fräschels does not have its own church; it belongs to the reformed parish of Kerzers .

Web links

Commons : Fräschels  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of the municipality of Fräschels
• Ursula Birchler: Fräschels. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

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 .