Grenilles

State :

Switzerland

Canton :

Freiburg (FR)

District :

Saane / Sarine

Municipality :

Gibloux

Postal code :

1726

former BFS no. :

XXXX

Coordinates :

570295 / 175 867 coordinates: 46 ° 44 '0 " N , 7 ° 3' 0" O ; CH1903: 570295 / one hundred seventy-five thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven

Height :

682 m above sea level M.

Residents:

92 (1995)

map

Parish before the merger on January 1, 1996

Grenilles is a town and formerly an independent political municipality in the District de la Sarine (German: Saanebezirk) in the canton of Friborg in Switzerland . On January 1, 1996 Grenilles merged with Posat , Farvagny-le-Grand and Farvagny-le-Petit to form the new municipality of Farvagny . The village has been part of the Gibloux community since 2016 .

geography

Grenilles lies at 682 m above sea level. M. , twelve kilometers southwest of the canton capital Freiburg (linear distance ). The farming village extends slightly higher on the northern slope of the Longivue , in the Molasse hills of the Freiburg Central Plateau . The former municipality area was around 1.9 km². The area was bordered to the west by the Longivue and to the north by the Glâne , both of which have cut deep erosion valleys into the molasse layers. It also comprised the high plateau of Le Chaney ( 675 m above sea level ), a section of the formerly boggy depression of the Upper Longivue and extended in the southeast to the Montban forest .

population

With 92 inhabitants (1995) Grenilles was one of the smallest municipalities in the canton of Friborg before the merger. Several individual farms belong to Grenilles.

economy

Grenilles still lives from agriculture , especially from agriculture , dairy farming and cattle breeding . Several gravel pits are being exploited north of the village.

traffic

The village is located off the main thoroughfares, on a connecting road from Farvagny-le-Grand to Villaz-Saint-Pierre . The closest connection to the A12 motorway (Bern-Vevey) is around 3 km from the town center. Grenilles has no direct connection to the public transport network.

history

The area of Grenilles was settled very early, which was proven by the remains of a fortification from the Hallstatt period. The place was first mentioned in a document in 929 under the name Granecglis ; The name Grenegles has been handed down from the 12th century .

Since the 12th century, the rulership of the village was incumbent on the noble von Grenilles family. Grenilles came under the rule of Freiburg through purchase in 1483 and was assigned to the Vogtei Pont-Farvagny. A village fire in 1563 affected numerous houses. After the collapse of the Ancien Régime (1798), the village belonged to the Romont district during the Helvetic period and to the Farvagny district from 1803 before it was incorporated into the Saane district in 1848 with the new cantonal constitution. Grenilles does not have its own church, it belongs to the parish of Farvagny.

In 1995 the inhabitants of Grenilles, Farvagny-le-Grand, Farvagny-le-Petit and Posat decided to merge their parishes. This resulted in the first large municipal merger in the canton of Friborg, which became legally binding on January 1, 1996; the new parish was named Farvagny .

Attractions

Web links

Official website of the Municipality of Farvagny (French)
Marianne Rolle: Grenilles. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .