Franex

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Franex
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Canton of FriborgCanton of Friborg Freiburg (FR)
District : Broyew
Municipality : Estavayeri2
Postal code : 1489
former BFS no. : XXXX
Coordinates : 552 519  /  183394 coordinates: 46 ° 48 '0 "  N , 6 ° 49' 0"  O ; CH1903:  five hundred and fifty-two thousand five hundred and nineteen  /  183394
Height : 582  m above sea level M.
Residents: 46 (1990)
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Franex (Switzerland)
Franex
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Parish before the merger on September 1, 1992

Franex is a town and formerly an independent political municipality in the Broye district in the canton of Friborg in Switzerland . On January 1, 1992, Franex was incorporated into Murist . The village has been part of the Estavayer municipality since 2017 .

geography

Franex lies at 582  m above sea level. M. , nine kilometers west-southwest of Payerne (linear distance ) in the Friborg enclave Estavayer-le-Lac . The village extends on the left slope of the Petite Glâne , below the Tour de la Molière, in the Molasse hill country between Lake Neuchâtel and the middle Broyetal , in the northwestern Freiburg Central Plateau . The former municipality area was around 1.6 km². The area comprised a section of the central reaches of the Petite Glâne and reached in the west over the steep slope of Franex to the edge of the plateau of Murist (at Vursy 694  m above sea level ).

population

With 46 inhabitants (1990), Franex was one of the smallest municipalities in the canton of Friborg before the merger. In 1850 the community had 131 inhabitants, in 1950 110 inhabitants. Franex owns a number of individual farms.

economy

Franex still lives from agriculture , especially from agriculture , dairy farming and cattle breeding .

traffic

The place is away from the larger thoroughfares and has no connection to the public transport network itself.

history

The first written mention of the place took place in 1242 under the name Frasnei . Later, the names Frasnaj (1243), Franey (1343), Frane (1665) and Franex (since 1668) appeared. The place name is derived from the Latin word fraxinus (ash).

Since the Middle Ages, Franex has been under the rule of Estavayer. The cathedral chapter of Lausanne also owned land in the village. After Bern had conquered Vaud in 1536, Franex came under the rule of Friborg and was assigned to the Estavayer Bailiwick. After the collapse of the Ancien Régime (1798), the village was part of the Estavayer district during the Helvetic and subsequent periods before being incorporated into the Broye district in 1848. With effect from January 1, 1992, Franex was incorporated into Murist .

Attractions

The village chapel of Saint-Nicolas is first mentioned in 1625 and was restored in 1795. It has 13 remarkable painted wooden statues of Christ and the Apostles. These originally come from the Combremont church, but were given to Franex when this congregation converted to the Reformed faith.

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