Le Châtelard FR

FR is the abbreviation for the canton of Friborg in Switzerland and is used to avoid confusion with other entries in the name Le Châtelard .

Le Châtelard
State :	Switzerland
Canton :	Freiburg (FR)
District :	Glane
BFS no. :	2067
Postal code :	1689
Coordinates :	564 759  /  169690 coordinates: 46 ° 40 '39 "  N , 6 ° 58' 41"  O ; CH1903:  five hundred sixty-four thousand seven hundred fifty-nine  /  169690
Height :	903  m above sea level M.
Height range :	800–1123 m above sea level M.
Area :	7.49  km²
Residents:	372 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	50 inhabitants per km²
Website:	www.le-chatelard.ch
Le Châtelard
Location of the municipality

Le Châtelard ( Friborg Patois Tsathèlâ ^{? / I} ) is a municipality in the Glane district in the canton of Friborg in Switzerland .

geography

Le Châtelard lies at 903  m above sea level. M. , 5 km east-southeast of the district capital Romont (linear distance). The farming village extends from a promising location on a promontory on the western slope of Mont Gibloux , north of the Mausson valley , in the higher Freiburg Central Plateau .

The area of ​​the 7.5 km² municipal area comprises a section of the Molasse hill country in the Freiburg Central Plateau. The entire area lies on the western roof of the Gibloux. The southern border is formed by the Mausson brook cut into an erosion valley (right side brook of the Neirigue ). The high trough of Le Pontet in the southeast is also drained by the Mausson. To the south, the municipality extends over the Derbali forest height ( 1072  m above sea level ) to the edge of the Les Gurles moorland . In the far east, at the height above the Côtes à Richard with 1130  m above sea level. M. reached the highest point of Le Châtelard. In the north, the municipal area extends into the catchment area of ​​the Glèbe stream . In 1997, 2% of the municipal area was accounted for by settlements, 27% for forests and woodlands and 71% for agriculture.

Le Châtelard includes the hamlets of Le Planet ( 846  m above sea level ) below the village and Planafaye ( 930  m above sea level ) west of the La Joux forest as well as some individual farms. Neighboring communities of Le Châtelard are Villorsonnens , Sorens , Marsens , Grangettes and Massonnens .

population

With 372 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2018), Le Châtelard is one of the small communities in the canton of Friborg. 97.9% of the residents speak French, 1.2% speak Portuguese and 0.6% speak German (as of 2000). The population of Le Châtelard was 427 in 1850 and 442 in 1900. In the course of the 20th century the population gradually decreased; it has remained at a constant level since around 1980.

economy

Until the second half of the 20th century, Le Châtelard was predominantly an agricultural village. Even today, the dairy industry , cattle breeding and forestry have an important place in the income structure of the population. Further jobs are available in local small businesses and in the service sector. In the last few decades the village has also developed into a residential community thanks to its attractive location. Many workers are therefore commuters who work mainly in the Romont and Freiburg regions.

traffic

The community is located away from the major thoroughfares on a connecting road from Grangettes over the Gibloux to Sorens . Le Châtelard is connected to the public transport network by a bus from Transports publics Fribourgeois , which runs between Bulle and Romont .

history

The municipality of Le Châtelard was already settled in Roman times. During the High Middle Ages , a fortified castle square was probably located here, as the name of the village suggests. Earlier forms of the name were Chastelard and Chattelard (also Latinized Castellarium supra ). The early local history is largely in the dark.

During the 13th century, Le Châtelard belonged to the county of Gruyères before it came to the House of Savoy in 1273 . In 1449 the village passed to the lords of Montagny and in 1564 it was bought by Freiburg. Le Châtelard assigned this to the Bailiwick of Romont. After the collapse of the Ancien Régime (1798), the village belonged to the Romont district during the Helvetic and the subsequent period and was incorporated into the Glâne district in 1848.

Le Châtelard, Grangettes and Massonnens were to be amalgamated as part of the municipal mergers promoted by the canton since 2000. After the residents of Massonnens rejected a merger in April 2005, the project was temporarily put on hold.

Attractions

The Saint-Bernard-de-Menthon church was built in 1846. Le Châtelard has had its own parish since 1840, previously it belonged to the parish of Grangettes. Some characteristic farmhouses from the 18th and 19th centuries have been preserved in the village.

Web links

Commons : Le Châtelard  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Evelyne Maradan: Châtelard, Le (FR). In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Aerial views of the village

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 .