Giffers

Giffers
State :	Switzerland
Canton :	Freiburg (FR)
District :	Scythe
BFS no. :	2294
Postal code :	1735
Coordinates :	582555  /  178 938 coordinates: 46 ° 45 '41 "  N , 7 ° 12' 37"  O ; CH1903:  582555  /  one hundred seventy-eight thousand nine hundred and thirty-eight
Height :	767  m above sea level M.
Height range :	679-1028 m above sea level M.
Area :	5.22  km²
Residents:	1634 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	313 inhabitants per km²
Website:	www.giffers.ch
Giffers village center
Location of the municipality

Giffers ( French Chevrilles ; senslerdeutsch Güffersch ; Freiburg Patois Tsevrilye ^{? / I} ) is a municipality of Sensebezirks in the Swiss canton of Friborg and is located about 6 km east of the capital of the canton of Friborg . It is located in the upper Sense district .

geography

Giffers lies at 767  m above sea level. M. , with the lowest point at 679  m above sea level. M. (at the Ärgera) and the highest at 1032  m above sea level. M. (Lanthershubel near Eichholz) is located. Two thirds of the 5.15 km² municipal area are used for agriculture, 12% are built over and the forest areas make up 20% of the area. The meadow landscape on the Ärgera is one of the 2% of the area that is described as unproductive .

The southern border forms the Ärgera with the Ärgeragraben, an untouched meadow landscape of national importance. The main settlement is located in the west of the municipality with the parish church as the center. The main settlement has grown together closely with the settlement area of ​​Tentlingen. In the southeast is the Eichholz settlement, which mainly consists of farmhouses. The neighboring communities are Tentlingen , St. Silvester , Plasselb , Plaffeien and Rechthalten . Giffers belongs to both the Freiburg agglomeration and the Senseoberland and is therefore on the border between the Mittelland and the Alpine foothills .

economy

The community experienced significant growth in the 1960s. Of the employed, 28% work in the first sector, 25% in the second and 47% in the third sector. Most of the gainfully employed are commuters and work in the greater Friborg / Freiburg area , but Giffers has not developed into a pure commuter community and has been able to assert itself as an independent village because it also has many smaller local businesses.

Giffers becomes the first location for the new federal centers for asylum. An asylum center for a maximum of 300 asylum seekers will be built in the former Guglera Institute by 2017.

traffic

Giffers from Muschenegg

The community has good transport links. It is located on the main road from Freiburg to Plaffeien, which leads into the Schwarzsee region. There are also the connecting roads to St.Silvester and Le Mouret as well as to Rechthalten and St. Ursen. Giffers is connected to the public transport network by three bus routes operated by Transports publics Fribourgeois .

Churches

The Catholic Church was built in 1778–1781 and expanded in 1908. As early as 1390, there is evidence of a church in the municipality. At Auf der Matten there is a neo-Gothic Lady Chapel (late 19th century). In 1902 a Lourdes grotto was built on a beautiful spot in the Aergerafelsen. The former tithe house dates from the 17th century. The municipal administration has been located in the newly renovated Alte Kur building since 1986 . In the far east of the community is the Guglera Institute founded by the Ingenbohl sisters , formerly a secondary school, today a support, training and seminar center.

history

Giffers must have been inhabited as early as the Neolithic (dolmen in Sageloch). In the 10th century it belonged to the County of Bargen; in the 11th / 12th In the 19th century, the Knights of Giffers ruled the area. The name Giffers is first attested as chiuriles (from Latin caprile "goat stable") in the 12th century. From the middle of the 12th century, Giffers partially belonged to the Magerau monastery .

1476, in the Battle of Murten a Compagnie Giffers (Ziverliet) and Tentlingen (Tanterin) with 59 men there. Since there is no information available about St. Silvester and Neuhaus, this Giffers company consisted of men from Giffers, Tentlingen, St.Silvester and Neuhaus.

In 1630 Giffers became an independent parish in the Burgpanner as part of the old landscape . The first post office opened in 1893.
In the entire German-speaking part of the canton of Friborg, Giffers is known for the so-called Gifferstee . However, it is unclear whether this popular hot drink with cinnamon actually originally came from Giffers.

Merger plans with Tentlingen and St. Silvester failed in the June 2015 vote.

Attractions

See also : List of cultural assets in Giffers

Web links

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

• Official website of the municipality of Giffers
• Jean-François Steiert : Giffers. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Aerial views of the village

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 . 
2. ^ Giffers parish
3. ↑ Federal Statistical Office  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ New federal center for asylum seekers in Giffers from 2017. (No longer available online.) The federal authorities of the Swiss Confederation ( admin.ch ), February 13, 2015, archived from the original on February 15, 2015 ; accessed on February 15, 2015 . 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.