Le Bry

State :

Switzerland

Canton :

Freiburg (FR)

District :

Gruyère

Municipality :

Pont-en-Ogoz

Postal code :

1645

former BFS no. :

XXXX

Coordinates :

572 826 / 172 149 coordinates: 46 ° 42 '0 " N , 7 ° 5' 0" O ; CH1903: five hundred and seventy-two thousand eight hundred and twenty-six / 172149

Height :

737 m above sea level M.

Residents:

296 (2002)

map

Parish before the merger on January 1, 2003

Le Bry is a town and formerly an independent political municipality in the Gruyère district of the canton of Friborg in Switzerland . The former German name Im Kehr is no longer used today. On January 1, 2003, Le Bry merged with Avry-devant-Pont and Gumefens to form the new municipality of Pont-en-Ogoz .

geography

Le Bry is 737 m above sea level. M. , ten kilometers north-northeast of the district capital Bulle (as the crow flies). The village stretches across the basin of the village stream above the Lac de la Gruyère reservoir , on the eastern slope of the Gibloux , in the Freiburg Alpine foothills . The former community area was around 4.0 km² (including the lake). The area reached from the lakeshore westward over the slope of Le Bry to the northern summit of Gibloux ( 1170 m above sea level ). In the north it extended to the Bibou forest and in the south to the Russille ridge . The island Île d'Ogoz in Lac de la Gruyère also belonged to Le Bry.

population

With 296 inhabitants (2002), Le Bry was one of the small communities in the canton of Friborg before the merger. Since the 1960s in particular, the village has seen a sharp increase in population. The hamlet of Villars-d'Avry ( 833 m above sea level ) on the eastern slope of the Gibloux also belongs to Le Bry .

economy

For a long time, Le Bry was mainly an agricultural village. The livestock and dairy industry have an important role in the employment structure of the population today. There are also other jobs in local small businesses and in the service sector, including in the Morard SA distillery founded in 1957. Tourism has also been promoted since the 1990s. A small port facility has been set up on the lakeshore, and the chapel on Ogoz Island can be rented for weddings. In the past few decades, Le Bry has also developed into a residential community. Many people in employment are therefore commuters who work primarily in the Freiburg and Bulle regions.

traffic

The community has good transport connections. It is on the main road from Freiburg to Bulle . The area is crossed by the A12 motorway , which has been open from Bern to Vevey since 1981 . The next connection is around 3 km from the town center. To the east of the village is the approximately 2 km long viaduct of the A12, which leads in a curved arch at a height of 70 m over two branches of the Lac de la Gruyère. Le Bry is connected to the public transport network by the Transports publics fribourgeois bus line , which runs from Freiburg via Rossens to Bulle.

history

Traces of a Roman settlement inhabited in the 2nd and 3rd centuries AD have been found in the area of Le Bry . Since the Middle Ages , the hamlet was part of the Pont dominion, came to Freiburg in 1482 and was assigned to the Bailiwick of Pont. After the collapse of the Ancien Régime (1798), Le Bry initially belonged to the Bulle district and from 1848 to the Gruyères district.

The municipality of Le Bry was not created until 1970, when the previously independent municipalities of Pont-en-Ogoz (which included the island of Ogoz and the hamlet of Le Bry) and Villars-d'Avry merged.

In 2002, the voters of Le Bry voted with a yes majority of around 88% for the merger of the municipalities of Le Bry, Avry-devant-Pont and Gumefens . With effect from January 1, 2003, the new municipality was created, which again bears the name Pont-en-Ogoz.

Attractions

Web links

Marianne Rolle: Bry, Le. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Aerial views of the village