Hauteville FR

FR is the abbreviation for the canton of Friborg in Switzerland and is used to avoid confusion with other entries of the name Hauteville .

Hauteville
State :	Switzerland
Canton :	Freiburg (FR)
District :	Gruyère
BFS no. :	2137
Postal code :	1648
Coordinates :	574 851  /  168775 coordinates: 46 ° 40 '11 "  N , 7 ° 6' 36"  O ; CH1903:  574851  /  168775
Height :	717  m above sea level M.
Height range :	674–1497 m above sea level M.
Area :	10.54  km²
Residents:	672 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	64 inhabitants per km²
Website:	www.hauteville.ch
Hauteville FR
Location of the municipality

Hauteville ( Friborg Patois Otavela ^{? / I} ; dt. Obsolete: Altenfüll ) is a political municipality in the Gruyère district of the canton of Friborg in Switzerland .

geography

Hauteville is 717  m above sea level. M. , 7 km northeast of the district capital Bulle (linear distance). The farming village extends on a terrace over the east bank of Lake Gruyère , on the village stream Ruisseau des Branches , at the west foot of the Berra .

The area of ​​the 10.6 km² municipality covers a section of the pre-alpine area in the Gruyère region. In the west, part of Lake Gruyère belongs to Hauteville. The bank in the area of ​​Hauteville is very indented, as several streams that arise on the western slope of the Berra flow into the lake in small valleys. These valleys were flooded when the Gruyère lake was dammed , including that of the Serbache on the northern border of the area. From the shore, the communal soil extends eastward over the terrace of Hauteville up the relatively gently rising slope with forests and partly boggy pastures to the mountain ridge that runs from the Berra to the southwest. A small part of the municipality lies on the other side of the ridge in the catchment area of ​​the Javro and includes the alpine meadows Pré aux Oies and L'Allière . The highest point of Hauteville is 1500  m above sea level. M. at Le Gîte d'Allières southwest of the Berra. In 1997, 4% of the municipal area was in settlements, 43% in forests and woodlands, 52% in agriculture and a little more than 1% was unproductive land.

Some farm settlements as well as numerous individual farms and alpine huts belong to Hauteville. The neighboring municipalities of Hauteville are Corbières , Echarlens , Pont-en-Ogoz , Pont-la-Ville , La Roche and Val-de-Charmey .

population

With 672 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2018), Hauteville is one of the smaller communities in the canton of Friborg. 92.0% of the residents are French-speaking, 5.2% German-speaking and 1.5% Portuguese-speaking (as of 2000). The population of Hauteville was 500 in 1850 and 533 in 1900. In the course of the 20th century, a population decline of more than 40% to 312 inhabitants in 1980 was recorded due to strong emigration. Since then, a significant increase in population has been observed again.

economy

Until the second half of the 20th century, Hauteville was predominantly an agricultural village. Even today, livestock and dairy farming (for cheese production) and, to a lesser extent, arable farming play an important role in the income structure of the population. Further jobs are available in local small businesses and in the service sector. Hauteville is the seat of the Catholic publishing house Editions du Parvis SA. In the last few decades the village has also developed into a residential community thanks to its attractive location. Most of the employed are therefore commuters who work in the Bulle and Freiburg regions.

traffic

The community is very well developed in terms of traffic. It is located on the main road from Freiburg to Broc . Hauteville is connected to the public transport network by the Transports publics Fribourgeois bus routes , which run from Freiburg via La Roche to Bulle and from Freiburg to Jaun .

history

The first written mention of the place was in 1228 under the name Auta vila , derived from the Latin words alta (high) and villa (village, city). Hauteville has been part of the Corbières dominion since the Middle Ages . In the municipality, the monastery of La Valsainte had rich estates due to a donation from the Lords of Corbières. This was also the reason why the monks of the monastery received the citizenship of Hauteville in 1637. In addition, in the 12th and 13th centuries there was a farm near the village, which was run by the Premonstratensians of the Humilimont monastery (near Marsens), to which a chapel was attached.

Hauteville shared the fortunes of the dominion of Corbières, came with this in 1454 to the county of Gruyères and in 1553 to Freiburg, which established the Bailiwick of Corbières. In 1745, numerous houses fell victim to a fire. After the collapse of the Ancien Régime (1798), the village belonged to the prefecture or the district of Corbières until 1848, after which it was assigned to the district of Gruyères.

Attractions

See also : List of cultural assets in Hauteville FR

The parish of Hauteville has been mentioned since the 12th century. The Saint-Etienne church was built in 1620 on the site of the former Premonstratensian chapel.

Personalities

• Jean "Juan" Magnin (1701–1753), Jesuit, missionary and scientist in South America

Web links

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

• Official website of the municipality of Hauteville (French)
• Marianne Rolle: Hauteville. 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. ^ Urban Fink: Jean Magnin. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . August 14, 2008 , accessed March 15, 2019 .
3. ↑ Carlos Paladines: The intellectual historical relationships between Ecuador and Germany, In: Ecuador, world of diversity . Ed .: Rafael Sevilla, Alberto Acosta. Horlemann Verlag, Bad Honnef 2005, ISBN 3-89502-210-1 , p. 288 ff .