Gletterens

Gletterens

State :	Switzerland Switzerland
Canton :	Canton of Friborg Freiburg (FR)
District :	Broyew
BFS no. :	2022i1 f3 f4
Postal code :	1544
Coordinates :	561 811 / 193888 coordinates: 46 ° 53 '42 " N , 6 ° 56' 15" O ; CH1903: 561811 / 19388846.895006 6.937504 486
Height :	486 m above sea level M.
Height range :	429–498 m above sea level M.
Area :	2.56 km²
Residents:	1071 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	418 inhabitants per km²
Website:	www.gletterens.ch
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Gletterens is a municipality in the Broye district in the canton of Friborg in Switzerland .

geography

Gletterens lies at 486 m above sea level. M. , 8 km north of Payerne (air line). The village extends on the wide ridge between the southeastern shore of Lake Neuchâtel and the Broye plain , in the northwestern Freiburg Central Plateau .

The area of the 3.0 km² municipal area comprises a section on the southeastern shore of Lake Neuchâtel (around 1.5 km of the lakeshore line). In the area of Gletterens, the lake has a flat, up to 1 km wide bank edge, which, with the exception of the area north of the village, consists of a belt of reeds and swamp forest ( Les Grèves ). These zones are part of the Grande Cariçaie nature reserve . From the flat edge of the bank, the community soil extends southward over a 20 m high, wooded steep slope to the plateau of the adjacent ridge. Here, on the corridor Fin de Gros Bois at 498 m M. reached the highest point of Gletterens. The western border is formed by the valley of the Ruisseau de Robin , which is slightly cut into the plateau and flows into the lake near Hof Ostend . In 1997, 16% of the municipal area was in settlements, 18% in forests and woodland, 53% in agriculture and a little less than 13% was unproductive land (reed belt).

Gletterens has a holiday home area near the shores of Lake Neuchâtel and a few individual farms. Neighboring communities of Gletterens are Delley-Portalban and Vallon in the canton of Friborg and Grandcour and Chevroux in the canton of Vaud .

population

With 1,071 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2018), Gletterens is one of the smaller communities in the canton of Friborg. 71.8% of the residents are French-speaking, 25.9% German-speaking and 0.9% speak Italian (as of 2000). The population of Gletterens was 251 in 1850 and 235 in 1900. Until 1940 the population increased slightly to 269 inhabitants, after which there was a decrease of almost 35% to 176 people in 1970 due to strong emigration. Only since then has a rapid population growth combined with a tripling of the population within 30 years been recorded.

Economy and tourism

Until the second half of the 20th century, Gletterens was predominantly an agricultural village. Even today arable farming , fruit growing and cattle breeding have a certain place in the income structure of the population. Further jobs are available in local small businesses and in the service sector, including a horticultural company and a company in the electrical industry. Thanks to its attractive location, Gletterens has also developed into a residential community in recent decades. Many employed people are therefore commuters who work mainly in Estavayer-le-Lac and in the Payerne region.

Since the 1960s, Gletterens has made efforts to stimulate tourism. Numerous holiday and weekend homes have been built in the flat zone near the lake shore, as well as a campsite and a small boat harbor.

traffic

The community is located off the major thoroughfares on a connecting road from Grandcour to Portalban . Gletterens is connected to the public transport network by a Postbus course that runs from Payerne to Chevroux. At certain times of the day, the Transports publics Fribourgeois buses run from Gletterens to Domdidier .

history

The municipality of Gletterens was settled very early. Along the lakeshore, three Neolithic settlements were explored, which were ascribed to the Cortaillod culture and the Horgen culture .

The place was first mentioned in a document in 1239 under the name Lieterin . Numerous other spellings appeared later, namely Glicterens , Licterens , Lyetorens (1343), Lieterens (1356), first Gletterens (1403), then Glieterens (1422), Glecterens (1520) and Lietterens (1755). The place name is derived from the Burgundian personal name Leutarius and means with the suffix -ens as much as with the people of Leutarius .

Since the 14th century Gletterens was under the rule of Montagny . With this rule, the village came under the suzerainty of Freiburg in 1478 and was assigned to the Bailiwick of Montagny, whereby it formed an exclave. After the collapse of the Ancien Régime (1798), Gletterens belonged to the Avenches district during the Helvetic Republic, to the Montagny district from 1803 and to the Dompierre district from 1830, before being incorporated into the Broye district in 1848.

As part of the community mergers funded by the canton of Friborg since 2000, a merger of Gletterens with Delley and Portalban was initially up for debate. However, the villagers of Gletterens opposed a merger, which is why the community has remained politically independent until now.

Attractions

The parish church of Sainte-Marie was built between 1877 and 1878, after the village was elevated to an independent parish in 1858.
In 1998 the Village Lacustre was opened, in which a pile dwelling village was built. Here you can see the way of life and the craftsmanship of the Neolithic farmers.