La Rougève

State :

Switzerland

Canton :

Freiburg (FR)

District :

Vivisbach

Municipality :

Semsales

Postal code :

1609

former BFS no. :

XXXX

Coordinates :

559 246 / 157 263 coordinates: 46 ° 33 '55 " N , 6 ° 54' 26" O ; CH1903: 559246 / 157 263

Height :

811 m above sea level M.

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Parish before the merger on January 1, 1968

La Rougève is a town and formerly an independent political municipality in the Veveyse district (German: Vivisbach district) in the canton of Friborg in Switzerland . On January 1, 1968, La Rougève was incorporated into Semsales .

geography

La Rougève is 812 m above sea level. M. , 4.5 km north of Châtel-Saint-Denis (linear distance). The scattered settlement extends in the valley low of the upper reaches of the Broye . In terms of its natural surroundings, La Rougève is located in the pre-alpine Molasse hills of the higher Freiburg Central Plateau . The former municipality area was around 1.0 km². The area extended from the Broye to the northwest over the height of Les Planches (860 m above sea level) to the lowlands of the stream La Rougève . Today La Rougève is the only area in the municipality of Semsales west of the Broye.

economy

La Rougève still lives mainly from agriculture , in particular from dairy farming and cattle breeding . A sawmill offers a few more jobs.

traffic

The village is located on a road connecting Palézieux to Semsales . La Rougève is connected to the public transport network through the Postbus course, which runs from Oron-la-Ville to Semsales.

history

The first written mention of the place took place in 1278 under the name Rubea aqua (red water). In the Middle Ages , when La Rougève and the neighboring La Rogivue formed a community in what is now the canton of Vaud, a noble family is mentioned that took the name of the village. Around 1300 the village came under the rule of Bossonnen.

Only after the Reformation did the community separate. The Catholic part of the community came under the name of La Rougève under Freiburg rule and was assigned as an exclave to the Vogtei Bossonnens, while the Reformed part belonged to the Bernese bailiwick Oron . From 1615 La Rougève belonged to the bailiwick of Attalens. After the collapse of the Ancien Régime (1798), the village belonged to what was then the Châtel-Saint-Denis district during the Helvetic and the following period before being incorporated into the Veveyse district in 1848.

On January 1, 1968, La Rougève joined the neighboring community of Semsales as part of a community merger . The neighboring, formerly also independent municipality of La Rogivue was incorporated into Maracon in 2003 .

Attractions

Web links

Jean-Claude Vial: Rougève, La. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .