Le Crêt

State :

Switzerland

Canton :

Freiburg (FR)

District :

Vivisbach

Municipality :

La Verrerie

Postal code :

1611

former BFS no. :

XXXX

UN / LOCODE :

CH CRE

Coordinates :

560017 / 162957 coordinates: 46 ° 37 '0 " N , 6 ° 55' 0" O ; CH1903: 560017 / 162957

Height :

915 m above sea level M.

Residents:

414 (2002)

map

Parish before the merger on January 1, 2004

Le Crêt ( French [ lə kʀɛ ], also Le Crêt-près-Semsales ; fpr. [ (O) ˈkrɛ ]) is a town and formerly an independent political municipality in the Vivisbach district of the Swiss canton of Friborg . Since 2004, Le Crêt has been part of the La Verrerie municipality, whose municipal administration is located in Le Crêt.

geography

Le Crêt is 915 m above sea level. M. , eleven kilometers west of Bulle (as the crow flies). The village extends in a panoramic position on a wide ridge between the valley lowlands of the Mionna in the south and the Flon in the north, in the Molasse hills of the Alpine foothills in the southwestern Freiburg Central Plateau . The former municipality area was around 7.3 km². The area included the ridge of Le Crêt, which at Le Chalet at 933 m above sea level. M. peaks and is bordered in the north by the valley basin of the Flon. To the south of the ridge is the protected moorland La Mosse d'en Bas , which is drained to the Mionna by the La Vaux brook . The forest height Bois de Ban ( 932 m above sea level ) belonged to Le Crêt. To the east, the area reached into the headwaters of Neirigue and Sionge with the Joux à Britse forest ( 880 m above sea level ).

population

With 414 inhabitants (2002), Le Crêt was one of the small municipalities in the canton of Friborg before the merger. In 1900 the community had 473 inhabitants, in 1980 after heavy emigration only 353 inhabitants. The hamlets of Bremudens ( 895 m above sea level ) at the height above the valley of the Mionna and Montborget ( 890 m above sea level ) in the headwaters of the Neirigue as well as several farm settlements and individual farms also belonged to the scattered settlement community of Le Crêt .

economy

Until the second half of the 20th century, Le Crêt was predominantly an agricultural village. Especially during the two world wars, peat was cut in the Le Crêt bog. Even today, dairy farming , animal husbandry and, to a lesser extent, arable farming 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 wood processing companies. In the last few decades, Le Crêt has also developed into a residential community thanks to its attractive location. Many employed people are therefore commuters who mainly work in the Bulle and Oron regions.

traffic

The village is close to the main road from Bulle to Oron-la-Ville . The next connection to the A12 motorway , which has been open continuously from Bern to Vevey since 1981 , is around 6 km from the town center. Le Crêt is connected to the public transport network by the bus route from Oron-la-Ville to La Verrerie .

history

In the Middle Ages , the Lords of Oron and the Kastlanei of Rue owned estates and lands in the area of Le Crêt. In the 14th century, the area came by inheritance to the Counts of Gruyères and after the bankruptcy of the last Counts of Gruyères in 1555, it became the property of Freiburg, as it was assigned to the Bailiwick of Rue . The commune de Crest is documented for the first time in 1657 ; the place name means 'elevation, hill, peak, slope'.

After the collapse of the Ancien Régime (1798), the village belonged to what was then the Rue district during the Helvetic and the following period, before being incorporated into the Veveyse district in 1848. As part of the community mergers promoted by the canton of Friborg since 2000, the voters of Le Crêt voted unanimously in September 2003 for the merger of their community with Grattavache and Progens . With effect from January 1, 2004, the municipality of La Verrerie was created , which was named after the former glassworks. The municipal administration is located in Le Crêt.

church

Le Crêt has had a chapel since 1663 and became an independent parish in 1665; previously it belonged to the parish of Saint-Martin. The parish church was given its present form in the new building, which was consecrated in 1889.

Attractions

Web links

Official website of the municipality of La Verrerie (French)
Jean-Claude Vial: Crêt, Le. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Aerial views of the village and its surroundings

Individual evidence

↑ Chantal Schüle-Marro: Le Crêt FR (La Veveyse) in: Dictionnaire toponymique des communes suisses - Lexicon of Swiss community names - Dizionario toponomastico dei comuni svizzeri (DTS | LSG). Center de dialectologie, Université de Neuchâtel, Verlag Huber, Frauenfeld / Stuttgart / Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-7193-1308-5 and Éditions Payot, Lausanne 2005, ISBN 2-601-03336-3 , p. 516.

[cs-1] Chantal Schüle-Marro: Le Crêt FR (La Veveyse) in: Dictionnaire toponymique des communes suisses - Lexicon of Swiss community names - Dizionario toponomastico dei comuni svizzeri (DTS | LSG). Center de dialectologie, Université de Neuchâtel, Verlag Huber, Frauenfeld / Stuttgart / Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-7193-1308-5 and Éditions Payot, Lausanne 2005, ISBN 2-601-03336-3 , p. 516.