Kleinbösingen

Kleinbösingen
State :	Switzerland
Canton :	Freiburg (FR)
District :	lake
BFS no. :	2266
Postal code :	3213
UN / LOCODE :	CH KBO
Coordinates :	582 196  /  193 699 coordinates: 46 ° 53 '39 "  N , 7 ° 12' 18"  O ; CH1903:  five hundred eighty-two thousand one hundred and ninety-six  /  193699
Height :	509  m above sea level M.
Height range :	484-599 m above sea level M.
Area :	3.02  km²
Residents:	693 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	229 inhabitants per km²
Website:	www.kleinboesingen.ch
Entrance to Kleinbösingen
Location of the municipality

Kleinbösingen 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 Petit-Basens .

geography

Kleinbösingen lies at 509  m above sea level. M. , 3 km west-southwest of Laupen and 10 km north-northeast of the canton capital of Friborg (as the crow flies). The clustered village extends slightly higher on the western edge of the Saane valley , in the northern Freiburg Central Plateau .

The area of 3.0 square kilometers large municipal area comprises a portion of the glacial Rhonegletscher overmolded Molassehöhen between the Morat and Saanen valley. The south-eastern border runs along the canalized and straightened river course of the Saane. In the south part of the dam of the Schiffenensee and a very small part of the lake belong to Kleinbösingen. From the Saane, the municipality extends to the west over a flat valley valley up to 500 m wide (with the Auried nature reserve ) to the adjacent Molasse heights with the plateaus of Grueneburg and Feldmatten. The northern boundary forms the edge of the forest to the Röseliwald in Bern . On the Müllerholz is at 600  m above sea level. M. reached the highest point of Kleinbösingen. In 1997, 7% of the municipal area was in settlements, 21% in forests and woodland, 68% in agriculture and a little over 4% was unproductive land.

Kleinbösingen includes the Grueneburg settlements ( 562  m above sea level ) on a plateau at the southeastern foot of the forest height of the Müllerholz and Riedacher ( 540  m above sea level ) on the western slope of the Saane, as well as a few individual farms. Neighboring communities of Kleinbösingen are Gurmels , Düdingen and Bösingen in the canton of Friborg and Kriechenwil in the canton of Bern .

population

With 693 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2018), Kleinbösingen is one of the smaller communities in the canton of Friborg. 94.9% of the residents are German-speaking, 3.0% French-speaking and 1.2% speak Italian (as of 2000). The population of Kleinbösingen was 256 inhabitants in 1900. In the course of the 20th century the population fluctuated between 230 and 270 inhabitants. Only since 1980 (231 inhabitants) has a significant increase in population been recorded, with the number of inhabitants doubling within 20 years.

economy

Until the second half of the 20th century, Kleinbösingen was a village dominated by agriculture . 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 the local small business and in the service sector, including in a metal construction company, in the power station of the Schiffenen reservoir, in the construction industry, in a carpentry and a nationally active IT / CE Internet mail order company. Up until the end of the 19th century, sandstone was mined in quarries below the dam wall of today's Schiffenensee . Former gravel pits in the Saane Valley have been renatured and now form the Auried nature reserve. 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 regions of Laupen, Friborg and Bern .

traffic

The community is located off the major thoroughfares on a connecting road from Düdingen to Murten . The closest connection to the A12 motorway (Bern-Vevey) is in Düdingen, around 7 km from the town center. Kleinbösingen is connected to the public transport network through the Postbus course that leads from Düdingen to Kerzers .

Due to the timetable change in December 2008, Kleinbösingen is connected to Düdingen and Gurmels by a bus every half hour. From Gurmels there are also lines to Courtepin, Murten and Kerzers. Gümmenen train station can be reached in 10 minutes by car. From here you can take the train to Bern every half hour in 15 minutes.

history

Kleinbösingen was part of the property of the Counts of Thierstein in the Middle Ages . In 1442 the village came under the rule of Freiburg through purchase and from then on belonged to the Old Landscape (Spitalpanner). After the collapse of the Ancien Régime (1798), Kleinbösingen belonged to the Freiburg district during the Helvetic and the following period and from 1831 to the German district of Freiburg before it was incorporated into the lake district in 1848 with the new cantonal constitution. From 1883 to 1982 Kleinbösingen had a joint administration with the Liebistorf community on the other side of the Röseliwald (today incorporated into Gurmels).

At the beginning of the 20th century there were various projects to connect most of the towns in the canton of Friborg with railways. Among other things, there was a project that did not make it beyond the conceptual stage to create a Kerzers - Gurmels - Überstorf railway line. This railway line would have run over a bridge at Kleinbösingen and would have connected Kleinbösingen to the rail traffic.

Nature reserve

The Auried, a nature reserve of national importance, is located in Kleinbösingen. The Auried is one of the Pro Natura protected areas .

Sports

In Kleinbösingen, the 300m shooting sport traditionally has a very high priority. Since 2000 in particular, the SG Liebistorf - Kleinbösingen - Wallenbuch shooting club has been able to celebrate significant successes on a national level. Among other things, Swiss championship titles in the elite and young shooters group championships, individual winners at the Federal Shooting Festival 2005 as well as several cantonal championship titles and successes at historical shooting events.

Culture

The community's cultural commission organizes various events for the citizens every year.

Web links

Commons : Kleinbösingen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of the community of Kleinbösingen
• Eveline Seewer: Kleinbösingen. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Aerial views of the village
• Auried

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 .