Le Pâquier 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 Pâquier .

Le Pâquier
State :	Switzerland
Canton :	Freiburg (FR)
District :	Gruyère
BFS no. :	2145
Postal code :	1661
Coordinates :	570643  /  160302 coordinates: 46 ° 35 '36 "  N , 7 ° 3' 20"  O ; CH1903:  570643  /  160302
Height :	747  m above sea level M.
Height range :	714–1226 m above sea level M.
Area :	4.50  km²
Residents:	1344 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	299 inhabitants per km²
Website:	www.lepaquier.ch
Le Pâquier-Montbarry
Location of the municipality

Le Pâquier ( Friborg Patois Le Patchi ^{? / I} ) is a municipality in the Gruyère district of the canton of Friborg in Switzerland . To distinguish it from other localities of the same name, the village is often given the unofficial addition Le Pâquier-Montbarry . The former German name Rinderweide is no longer used today.

geography

Le Pâquier

Le Pâquier is 747  m above sea level. M. , 3 km south of the district capital Bulle (linear distance). The village extends on both sides of a brook that rises at the height of La Chia , slightly elevated on the western edge of the wide Saan valley , in the Gruyère region at the northern foot of the Alps north of the Moléson .

The area of ​​the 4.5 km² municipal area comprises a section of the Bulle basin in the foothills of the Friborg Alps . In the east, Le Pâquier has a small portion of the plain between La Tour-de-Trême and Gruyères, from which the forest hill Sautaux ( 764  m above sea level ) rises. To the west, the area extends up the slope of Le Pâquier, which is drained by several small streams to the Trême , and reaches at 1238  m above sea level. M. on a forest level on the edge of the Moléson massif the highest point of the municipality. In 1997, 11% of the municipal area was accounted for by settlements, 17% for forests and woodlands and 72% for agriculture.

Some farm settlements and individual farms belong to Le Pâquier. The neighboring communities of Le Pâquier are Gruyères and Bulle .

population

With 1,344 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2018), Le Pâquier is one of the smaller communities in the canton of Friborg. 93.4% of the residents are French-speaking, 4.0% German-speaking and 1.2% Portuguese-speaking (as of 2000). The population of Le Pâquier was 392 in 1900. Thereafter, the population rose only very slowly to 496 people until 1970. Only since then has rapid population growth been recorded, with the number of inhabitants doubling within 20 years.

economy

Until the second half of the 20th century, Le Pâquier was predominantly an agricultural village. Today, livestock and dairy farming, as well as agriculture, are only of minor importance in the income structure of the population. Further jobs are available in local small businesses and in the service sector. There is an important company in metal and steel construction as well as a company in the advertising industry. In the last few decades the village has also developed into a residential community. Many people in employment are therefore commuters who work in the Bulle and Freiburg regions.

traffic

The community is located off the main thoroughfares, but can be easily reached from Bulle or La Tour-de-Trême . 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. On July 23, 1903, the railway line from Bulle to Montbovon with a train station in Le Pâquier was put into operation.

history

Historic aerial photo by Werner Friedli from 1964

The municipality of Le Pâquier was settled very early, which has been proven by traces that were discovered in 1910 and date from the Middle Bronze Age . Since the Middle Ages , Le Pâquier was part of the county of Gruyères and shared its fortunes. The village belonged to the Kastlanei La Tour-de-Trême.

After the Counts of Gruyères went bankrupt in 1554, Le Pâquier came to Freiburg in 1555 and was assigned to the Bailiwick of Gruyères. In 1784 a mineral spring was discovered south of the village. The spring water was used to feed the Montbarry baths. After the collapse of the Ancien Régime (1798), Haut-Intyamon initially belonged to the prefecture and from 1848 to the Gruyères district.

Today the merger of Le Pâquier with the neighboring town of Gruyères is under discussion.

Culture and religion

Le Pâquier has had its own parish since 1919, before it belonged to the Gruyères parish.

The Carmelite Convent Le Carmel du Pâquier is on the outskirts .

Attractions

Web links

Commons : Le Pâquier FR  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of the municipality of Le Pâquier
• Marianne Rolle: Le Pâquier (FR). 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 .