Les Ecasseys

State :

Switzerland

Canton :

Freiburg (FR)

District :

Glane

Municipality :

Vuisternens-devant-Romont

Postal code :

1697

former BFS no. :

XXXX

Coordinates :

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

Height :

915 m above sea level M.

Residents:

51 (2002)

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Parish before the merger on January 1, 2003

Les Ecasseys is a town and formerly an independent political municipality in the Glane district of the canton of Friborg in Switzerland . On January 1, 2003, Les Ecasseys was incorporated into Vuisternens-devant-Romont together with a number of other municipalities .

geography

Les Ecasseys is 915 m above sea level. M. , four kilometers south-southwest of Vuisternens-devant-Romont and nine kilometers south of the district capital Romont (as the crow flies). The scattered settlement extends on a southern slope south of the Bois de Chanex forest , above the Flon valley (right brook of the Broye ), in the Molasse hill country of the higher Freiburg Central Plateau . The former municipality area was around 1.6 km². The area extended from the moorland in the source area of the Flon northwards over the slope of Les Ecasseys to the edge of the Bois de Chanex.

population

With 51 inhabitants (2002), Les Ecasseys was one of the smallest municipalities in the canton of Friborg before the merger. In 1880 the community still had 92 inhabitants.

economy

Les Ecasseys still lives from agriculture , especially from dairy (for cheese production) and cattle breeding . In the past, peat was cut in the bog area of the Flon.

traffic

The place is away from the larger thoroughfares on a connecting road from Bouloz to La Joux . La Joux is connected to the public transport network by the Transports publics Fribourgeois bus line , which runs from Romont via Oron-la-Ville to Palézieux-Gare .

history

The first written mention of the place took place in 1427 under the name es Escace ; later the settlement was also called La Ville du Bois ès Ecasseys . Since it was first mentioned, the place belonged to the lordship of Rue , which was under the sovereignty of the Counts of Savoy . When the Bernese conquered Vaud in 1536, Les Ecasseys came under the rule of Friborg and was assigned to the Bailiwick of Rue. Since the 17th century, a large part of the municipality was owned by the Freiburg Lamberger family, who ran a farm here. After the collapse of the Ancien Régime (1798), the village belonged to the Rue district during the Helvetic and the following period and was incorporated into the Glâne district in 1848. Ecclesiastically, Les Ecasseys belongs to Le Crêt .

As part of the municipal mergers supported by the canton of Friborg since 2000, Les Ecasseys was incorporated into Vuisternens-devant-Romont with Lieffrens , Sommentier , La Magne , La Joux , Villariaz and Estévenens with effect from January 1, 2003 .

Attractions

Web links

Evelyne Maradan: Ecasseys, Les. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .