La Sonnaz

La Sonnaz
State :	Switzerland
Canton :	Freiburg (FR)
District :	Saane
BFS no. :	2235
Postal code :	1782 Cormagens 1782 La Sonnaz 1782 Lossy-Formangueires 1783 La Corbaz
Coordinates :	574822  /  187025 coordinates: 46 ° 50 '2 "  N , 7 ° 6' 31"  O ; CH1903:  574822  /  187025
Height :	575  m above sea level M.
Height range :	531–700 m above sea level M.
Area :	6.96  km²
Residents:	1190 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	171 inhabitants per km²
Website:	www.lasonnaz.ch
La Sonnaz
Location of the municipality

La Sonnaz is a municipality in the District de la Sarine (German: Saanebezirk) in the canton of Friborg in Switzerland . It was formed with effect from January 1, 2004 from the previously independent municipalities of La Corbaz , Cormagens and Lossy-Formangueires . The seat of the municipal administration is in Lossy.

geography

La Sonnaz is located around 4.5 km northwest of the canton capital of Friborg (as the crow flies). The community extends with various villages on the slopes and in the wide basin of the lower Sonnaz , in the Molasse hill country of the Freiburg Central Plateau .

The area of ​​the 6.9 km² municipal area comprises a section of the Molasse Heights west of the Schiffenensee . The main part of the area is taken up by the wide valley basin, through which the Sonnaz flows from southwest to northeast. At Pensier this flows into the Saane (French: Sarine), which is dammed up here to form Schiffenensee . To the north of the Sonnaz, the municipality extends over the slopes of Lossy and La Corbaz to the forest heights of Bois de la Corbaz (at 700  m above sea level, the highest point of La Sonnaz) and into the Cantonale forest . In between is the Les Riaux valley cut . To the south of the river, the area extends to the adjacent plateaus of Granges-Paccot and the edge of the forest of the Bois de la Faye (up to 640  m above sea level ). In the east, this high plateau falls in a steep slope, partly traversed by sandstone cliffs, to the Schiffenensee, which forms the eastern boundary of the municipality. In 1997, 6% of the municipal area was in settlements, 23% in forests and woodlands, 67% in agriculture and a little more than 4% was unproductive land (share of the lake).

La Sonnaz consists of different villages and settlements:

• Lossy , 609  m above sea level M. , on the northern slope of the Sonnaz and west of the Riaux valley
• Formangueires , 585  m above sea level M. , on the southern slope of the Sonnaz on a terrace
• La Corbaz , 648  m above sea level M. , on the northern slope of the Sonnaz and east of the Riaux valley
• Cormagens , 575  m above sea level M. , on the southern slope of the Sonnaz
• La Sonnaz, 536  m above sea level M. , at Pensier shortly before the confluence of the Sonnaz in the Schiffenensee

Various individual farms also belong to the community. The neighboring communities of La Sonnaz are Granges-Paccot , Givisiez , Belfaux , Misery-Courtion , Courtepin and Düdingen .

population

With 1190 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2018), La Sonnaz is one of the smaller communities in the canton of Friborg. 88.6% of the residents are French-speaking, 9.1% German-speaking and 0.9% speak Portuguese (as of 2000). The population of La Sonnaz was 422 in 1900. After a peak in 1920 with 537 inhabitants, the population decreased by almost 30% to 384 people by 1970. Since then, there has been a significant increase in population combined with a doubling of the population within 30 years.

economy

Until the second half of the 20th century, La Sonnaz was a village dominated by agriculture . Even today, arable farming , fruit growing , dairy farming and cattle breeding play an important role in the income structure of the population. Other jobs are available in local small businesses and in the service sector, including in a company in Cormagens that produces plastic films, as well as in precision engineering workshops and in a joinery. In the last few decades the village has also developed into a residential community. Many workers are therefore commuters who mainly work in the Freiburg region.

traffic

The community is located off the main thoroughfares on a connecting road from Belfaux to Pensier. The closest connection to the A12 motorway (Bern – Vevey) is around 5 km from Lossy. Despite its proximity to the city of Freiburg , the community is not well connected to the public transport network. The railway line from Freiburg to Murten crosses the area, but has no stop. The nearest train stations are Pensier (for Cormagens) and Belfaux (for Lossy, Formangueires and La Corbaz).

history

The municipality of La Sonnaz was inhabited very early. Traces of settlement from the Mesolithic and Neolithic periods were found near Cormagen, and a necropolis from the Hallstatt period near La Corbaz .

In the Middle Ages , Cormagens formed a fiefdom of the Counts of Thierstein, while the other villages were subordinate to the Lords of Englisberg. The Hauterive Abbey , the Praroman family and the Freiburg Citizens' Hospital also owned land and titled the area of ​​La Sonnaz. From 1442 at the latest, the villages were under the rule of Freiburg and were assigned to the Old Landscape (Spitalpanner). After the collapse of the Ancien Régime (1798), the villages of La Sonnaz belonged to the district of Friborg during the Helvetic and the following period, before they were incorporated into the Saane district with the new cantonal constitution in 1848. La Sonnaz belongs to the parish of Belfaux.

As part of the community mergers promoted by the canton of Friborg since 2000, the voters of Cormagens , La Corbaz and Lossy-Formangueires decided on May 20, 2003 with a yes majority of an average of 78% to merge their communities. With effect from January 1, 2004, the merger to form the new municipality of La Sonnaz came into force.

Attractions

See also : List of cultural assets in La Sonnaz

The Saint-Théodule chapel in Cormagens , which dates back to the 15th century, was moved to the village in 1844. Cormagens belongs to the parish of Belfaux.

In Cormagens is also one of the last patrician -Landsitze (castle, lands and forests) of the Canton of Friborg. This has belonged to the old Bernese family of Kilchenmann von Oberösch for two generations . The castle and furnace house date back to the 17th century.

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  Lossy, La Sonnaz

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  Cormagens, La Sonnaz

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  Lady Chapel in La Corbaz, La Sonnaz

Web links

Commons : La Sonnaz  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of the municipality of La Sonnaz (French)
• Marianne Rolle: Cormagens. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Marianne Rolle: Corbaz, La. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Marianne Rolle: Formangueires. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Marianne Rolle: Lossy. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Editor: Lossy-Formangueires. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

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 .