Galmiz

Galmiz
State :	Switzerland
Canton :	Freiburg (FR)
District :	lake
BFS no. :	2259
Postal code :	3285
Coordinates :	578 640  /  199 795 coordinates: 46 ° 56 '56 "  N , 7 ° 9' 29"  O ; CH1903:  five hundred seventy-eight thousand six hundred and forty  /  one hundred ninety-nine thousand seven hundred ninety-five
Height :	441  m above sea level M.
Height range :	429-514 m above sea level M.
Area :	9.04  km²
Residents:	679 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	75 inhabitants per km²
Website:	www.galmiz.ch
Galmiz, on the left the school and community center
Location of the municipality

Galmiz 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 Charmey (Lac) , in contrast to the former municipality of Charmey in the Gruyère district.

geography

Galmiz is 441  m above sea level. M. , 4 km northeast of the district capital Murten (linear distance). The village extends in the hollow of Galmizbaches on the southern edge of the Great Marsh , at the foot of the height of Murten forest , east of Lake Murten in the northern Freiburg Central Plateau .

The area of ​​the 8.9 km² municipal area includes a section of the Grosse Moos. The main part of the area is taken up by the agriculturally intensively used level of the Grosse Moos , which is drained from the Galmiz Canal and the Bibere Canal to the Broyekanal (French: Canal de la Broye). Galmiz includes the corridors Galmizmoos , Neumatten , Turbenmoos , Burgmoos and Hinterem Horn . To the west, the municipality extends over the approximately 1 km wide forest belt Le Chablais to the Murtensee, which has a bank with thick reeds here. The lakeshore line of Galmiz is around 2 km from the outlet of the Broye in the north to the mouth of a short drainage canal in the south.

In the south, the municipality extends over the meadow hill Hinter den Reben ( 461  m above sea level ) and the hollow of the village stream from Galmiz to the adjacent Molasse heights and reaches the slope of the Murtenwald near Franzosenholz at 510  m above sea level. M. the highest point of Galmiz. In 1997, 7% of the municipal area was in settlements, 20% in forests and woodlands, 71% in agriculture and around 2% was unproductive land.

Some individual farms belong to Galmiz, including the Tannenhof and the Erlenhof in the Grosse Moos. The neighboring communities of Galmiz are Mont-Vully , Murten , Ried bei Kerzers and Muntelier .

population

With 679 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2018) Galmiz is one of the smaller communities in the canton of Friborg. The population of Galmiz was 422 in 1850 and 467 in 1900. The population hovered between 430 and 500 during the 20th century, before declining by 20% in the 1970s. Since 1980 (393 inhabitants) a significant increase in population has been recorded again.

languages

90.0% of the residents are German-speaking, 5.4% French-speaking and 1.3% speak Italian (as of 2000). This means that Galmiz is predominantly German-speaking today. The first documents on place and field names indicate an originally French-speaking village. The majority relationship between French and German probably reversed in the course of the 17th century.

economy

Up until the second half of the 20th century, Galmiz was a predominantly agricultural village. Even today arable farming , vegetable growing and fruit growing have an important place in the income structure of the population. In 1946 the growing and recycling cooperative for organic vegetables was founded.

Further jobs are available in local small businesses and in the service sector. In Galmiz, companies in the building trade, horticulture, electrical engineering, the food industry and a carpenter's workshop have settled. In 2005, Galmiz hit the national headlines because the US pharmaceutical company Amgen wanted to settle in the Grosse Moos agricultural zone. The rezoning of the fertile farmland into building land was controversial. Since the end of January 2006 it has been certain that the group will build its production facility in Ireland.

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 Murten and Bern regions.

traffic

The community is very well developed in terms of transport. It is located on the main road 22 to Kerzers . About 2 km from the town center in the direction of Murten, this flows into Hauptstrasse 1 Bern-Lausanne. There is also the connection to the A1 motorway (Bern-Lausanne), which crosses the municipality on the Galmiz viaduct. On June 12, 1876, the railway line from Murten to Lyss with a train station in Galmiz was put into operation.

history

Historic aerial photo by Werner Friedli from 1954

The municipality of Galmiz was settled very early. It was crossed by the Roman road that connected Aventicum with Petinesca. On this street there was a Roman villa, which was probably inhabited from 50 to 250 AD.

The first written mention of the place took place in 1242 under the name Chalmitis ; from 1340 the name Charmey has been handed down. The place name is derived from the Latin word calma (wasteland). Since the Middle Ages Galmiz has been under the rule of Murten. In 1475, the village came under the joint administration of the estates of Bern and Freiburg as part of the bailiwick of Murten. It was devastated during the Burgundian Wars .

After the collapse of the Ancien Régime (1798), Galmiz 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.

photos

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  School and community center

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  Galmiz train station

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  The village seen from the southwest

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  Hauptstrasse (Kantonsstrasse 22)

Web links

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

• Official website of the municipality of Galmiz
• Ursula Birchler: Galmiz. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Aerial photos of the Grosses Moos near Galmiz

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 .