La Tour-de-Trême

State :

Switzerland

Canton :

Freiburg (FR)

District :

Gruyere

Municipality :

Cop

Postal code :

1635

former BFS no. :

2154

Coordinates :

571 503 / 161965 coordinates: 46 ° 36 '30 " N , 7 ° 4' 0" O ; CH1903: 571,503 / 161965

Height :

743 m above sea level M.

Area :

11.42 km²

Residents:

3630 (December 31, 2005)

Population density :

318 inhabitants per km²

map

Parish before the merger on December 1, 2006

La Tour-de-Trême ( Friborg Patois La Toua ^?^/^I ) is a place in the municipality of Bulle in the Gruyère district of the canton of Friborg in Switzerland . The former German name Zum Turm is no longer used today.

geography

La Tour-de-Trême is 743 m above sea level. M. , one kilometer southeast of the district capital Bulle (linear distance ). The village extends on the southern side of the alluvial cone of the Trême , at the northern foot of the Moléson massif , in the Bulle basin west of the Saane (French: Sarine).

The area of the 11.4 km² former municipal area comprised a section of the Bulle basin in the Friborg foothills of the Alps . The eastern border ran along the Saane, which was slightly sunk into the gravel plain, shortly before its confluence with the Lac de la Gruyère reservoir . From the Saane the communal soil extended westward and included the extensive forest area Bois de Bouleyres , the forest hill Sautaux ( 764 m above sea level ) and the area of La Tour-de-Trême. Here the Trême torrent always formed the northern border against Bulle. In a narrow corner the area extended to the southwest to the wooded, partly willow-covered northern foothills of the Moléson. At the height above the Alp Les Maulatreys is 1384 m above sea level. M. reached the highest point of La Tour-de-Trême. In 1997, 9% of the former municipal area was in settlements, 38% in forests and woodlands, 52% in agriculture and a little more than 1% was unproductive land.

La Tour-de-Trême includes the former hamlet of Les Granges ( 783 m above sea level ) on the edge of the plain, today developed into a residential area, as well as numerous individual farms. Neighboring communities to La Tour-de-Trême were Bulle , Morlon , Broc , Gruyères and Le Pâquier .

population

With 3,630 inhabitants (at the end of 2005), La Tour-de-Trême was one of the larger municipalities in the canton of Friborg. 86.8% of the residents are French-speaking, 5.0% Portuguese-speaking and 2.5% German-speaking (as of 2000). The population of La Tour-de-Trême was 1063 in 1900. Thereafter the population increased slowly but continuously to 1787 inhabitants until 1960. Subsequently, particularly during the 1960s and since 1980, significant population increases were recorded. Today the settlement area of La Tour-de-Trême has merged seamlessly with that of Bulle.

economy

Until the beginning of the 20th century, La Tour-de-Trême was mainly an agricultural village. Today the village offers around 750 jobs. With 8% of the gainfully employed who are still employed in the primary sector, agriculture only has a minor role in the employment structure of the population. Around 50% of the workforce is employed in the industrial sector, while the service sector accounts for 42% of the workforce (as of 2001).

Agriculture today focuses on cattle breeding and dairy farming and, to a lesser extent, on arable farming . The forestry plays a certain role. Numerous small and medium-sized companies are based in La Tour-de-Trême. The industrial and commercial zones are located at the south-eastern exit of the village on the road to Gruyères. Metal construction, construction and transport businesses, a wine shop and bricklayers, carpenters and painters' workshops have set up shop here.

In the last few decades the village has also developed into a residential community thanks to its attractive location at the entrance to the upper Saane Valley. Many people in employment are therefore commuters who work in Bulle or partly in the Freiburg and Vevey - Montreux regions.

traffic

La Tour-de-Trême has good transport links. It is on the main road from Bulle to Château-d'Oex , from which the road to Broc and the Jaunpass branches off south of the village . As a result, La Tour-de-Trême has heavy through traffic. A bypass is currently being built for La Tour-de-Trême and Bulle, which should effectively relieve the village of transit traffic. The next connection to the A12 motorway , which has been open continuously from Bern to Vevey since 1981, is around 4 km from the town center.

On July 23, 1903, the railway line from La Tour-de-Trême to Montbovon was put into operation. The northern continuation from La Tour-de-Trême to Bulle was only inaugurated a year later, on September 21, 1904. The opening of the railway line from Bulle to Broc took place on June 24, 1912. For the fine distribution in public transport, bus lines of the Transports publics Fribourgeois from Bulle to Boltigen , Gruyères , Grandvillard and Corbières , all of which lead via La Tour-de-Trême.

history

Historic aerial photo by Werner Friedli from 1964

The place was first mentioned in a document in 1271 . La Tour-de-Trême has belonged to the county of Gruyères since the Middle Ages and was expanded under the counts to a fortified market town with a curtain wall and gates. The place also had a castle, which was destroyed by the Bernese in 1349 during the Grüninger War. Today only the tower that gave the place its name remains. The Bishop of Lausanne also owned land in the municipality. Under the county of Gruyères, the village formed a Kastlanei , to which Le Pâquier also belonged.

After the Counts of Gruyères went bankrupt in 1554, La Tour-de-Trême came to Freiburg in 1555 and was assigned to the Bailiwick of Gruyères. After the collapse of the Ancien Régime (1798), the village first belonged to the prefecture and from 1848 to the Gruyères district. For a long time La Tour-de-Trême shared hallways with the neighboring village of Le Pâquier. The final division of goods did not take place until 1827, which led to the complicated course of the border between the two communities. Due to the numerous fires and floods caused by the Trême torrent, the market town was badly affected several times, which is why hardly anything of the old facility is visible today.

On September 26, 2004, the voters of La Tour-de-Trême voted with a yes share of 56% for the merger with the neighboring town of Bulle. The incorporation to Bulle became legally effective on January 1st, 2006.

Attractions

The massive square tower of La Tour-de-Trême stands on a small rock hill, which was built in the 13th century by the Counts of Gruyères to defend the market town. The tower is 13 m high and has stone walls up to 2 m thick. It is the remnant of the former castle of La Tour-de-Trême, which was destroyed in 1349. A few houses from the 16th to 19th centuries have been preserved in the town center.

Personalities

Pierre Sciobéret , poet
Louis Bornet , poet
Christian Levrat , politician

Web links

Commons : La Tour-de-Trême - collection of images, videos and audio files

Carmen Buchillier, François Rime: La Tour-de-Trême. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Castle world: La Tour-de-Trême
Aerial views of the village