Fresens

Fresens
State :	Switzerland
Canton :	Neuchâtel (NE)
District :	No district division
Municipality :	La Grande Béroche
Postal code :	2027
former BFS no. :	6409
Coordinates :	547 413  /  193473 coordinates: 46 ° 53 '25 "  N , 6 ° 44' 55"  O ; CH1903:  five hundred and forty-seven thousand four hundred and thirteen  /  193473
Height :	620  m above sea level M.
Area :	1.58  km²
Residents:	252 (December 31, 2017)
Population density :	159 inhabitants per km²
Website:	www.lagrandeberoche.ch
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Parish before the merger on January 1, 2018

Until December 31, 2017, Fresens was a political municipality in the Boudry district of the canton of Neuchâtel in Switzerland .

geography

Fresens lies at 620  m above sea level. M. , 18 km southwest of the canton capital Neuchâtel (linear distance). The farming village extends in the Béroche on a ledge on the southern slope of the Jura , in a panoramic position around 200 m above the lake level of Lake Neuchâtel .

The area of ​​the municipality area of ​​just 1.6 km² includes the terrace of Fresens on the southern slope of the Soliat . The southern border is marked by the valley of the La Vaux brook, which is slightly sunk into the slope . The highest point of Fresens is 690  m above sea level. M. on the slope above the village. In 1997, 11% of the municipal area was accounted for by settlements, 8% for forests and woodlands and 81% for agriculture.

The neighboring communities of Fresens are Montalchez , Saint-Aubin-Sauges and Vaumarcus in the canton of Neuchâtel and Mutrux and Provence in the canton of Vaud .

population

With 252 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2017) Fresens was one of the smallest communities in the canton of Neuchâtel. 94.5% of the residents are French-speaking, 3.7% German-speaking and 0.5% Italian-speaking (as of 2000). In 1880 Fresens counted 234 inhabitants, afterwards the population decreased to 147 inhabitants by 1950, since then a slightly increasing tendency can be observed again.

politics

The voting shares of the parties at the 2015 National Council election were: SVP 31.3%, GPS 17.9%, SP 16.6%, FDP 15.3%, CVP 8.3%, PdA 6.7%, glp 1.6 %, List you vote blanc 1.3%, BDP 0%.

economy

Fresens has remained a predominantly agricultural village to this day; agriculture and cattle breeding are predominant . In the course of the 19th century, lace-making also served as an important source of income for the population. Outside of agriculture there are only a few jobs in the village in a wood processing company and in local small businesses.

traffic

Fresens is away from the larger thoroughfares, the main access is from Saint-Aubin . There are other road connections with Montalchez and the hamlet of Vernéaz. Fresens is connected to the public transport network by the bus route from Gorgier to Provence .

history

The municipality was already settled in Roman times. At that time the Vy d'Etra trade route ran through the area; Remains of a Roman structure have been found in La Salette. A cemetery from the Merovingian era was also discovered . The first written mention of the place took place in 1268 under the current name, in 1290 the name Fresain and in 1340 villa de Fressens appeared . The place name probably goes back to the personal name Frigis .

Fresens had belonged to the Gorgier rule since the 13th century, which came to the Counts of Neuchâtel as a fief in 1344. From 1648 Neuchâtel was a principality and from 1707 it was linked to the Kingdom of Prussia through personal union. In 1806 the area was ceded to Napoleon I and came to the Swiss Confederation in the course of the Congress of Vienna in 1815 , whereby the kings of Prussia until the Neuchâtel trade in 1857 also remained princes of Neuchâtel. In 1831 a tree of freedom was erected in Fresens in the course of the upheavals of that time.

Attractions

See also : List of cultural assets in La Grande Béroche

The old village fountain La Pompe with a roof made of wooden shingles is worth seeing . Fresens does not have its own church, it belongs to the parish of Saint-Aubin-Sauges .

Web links

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

• Olivier Girardbille: Fresens. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Election du Conseil National du October 18, 2015, Résultats des partis - Les suffrages. (aspx) (No longer available online.) Chancellerie d'État neuchâtelois, October 18, 2015, archived from the original on November 1, 2015 ; Retrieved October 30, 2016 (French). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.