Lessoc

State :

Switzerland

Canton :

Freiburg (FR)

District :

Gruyère

Municipality :

Haut-Intyamon

Postal code :

1669

former BFS no. :

XXXX

Coordinates :

571445 / 149 922 coordinates: 46 ° 30 '0 " N , 7 ° 4' 0" O ; CH1903: 571445 / one hundred forty-nine thousand nine hundred twenty-two

Height :

812 m above sea level M.

Residents:

184 (2002)

map

Parish before the merger on January 1, 2002

Lessoc ( Friborg Patois Lecho ^?^/^I ) is a town and formerly an independent political municipality in the Gruyère district of the canton of Friborg in Switzerland . On January 1, 2002 Lessoc merged with Neirivue , Albeuve and Montbovon to form the new municipality of Haut-Intyamon . The former German name Lissingen is no longer used today.

geography

Village well with onion roof

Aerial photo (1964)

Lessoc is 812 m above sea level. M. , twelve kilometers south of the district capital Bulle (linear distance ). The clustered village extends slightly higher on the north side of the debris cone of the Torrent torrent on the eastern edge of the Saan Valley , in the Haute-Gruyère, east of the Moléson chain. The former municipality area was around 14.8 km². The area ranged from the Saane (French: Sarine), which is dammed up west of the village to the Lake of Lessoc, eastwards over the debris cone of the Torrent to the adjacent Friborg Alps with Pointe de Cray ( 2070 m above sea level ) and Pra de Cray (up to 2090 m above sea level ).

population

With 184 inhabitants (2000), Lessoc was one of the small communities in the canton of Friborg before the merger. The hamlet of Le Bu ( 823 m above sea level ) on a promontory east of the Saane belongs to Lessoc .

economy

For a long time Lessoc was a predominantly agricultural village. The animal husbandry and the dairy industry (for cheese production) have today an important place in the economic structure of the population. There are also other jobs in local small businesses (carpentry) and in the service sector. Quarries near Lessoc were exploited until after the First World War . Lessoc marble was a popular stone for bridges, houses and churches in the region.

traffic

The village is very well developed in terms of traffic, although it is away from the major thoroughfares. On July 23, 1903, the railway line from Bulle to Montbovon with the Lessoc stop was put into operation about one kilometer from the town center on the western side of the Saane.

history

Poya

Parish Church of Saint Martin

The first written mention of the place took place in 1115 under the name Del Suc . Later, the names Lessoz (1231), Les Soz (1238) and Lessot (1352) appeared.

The Lords of Corbières owned large estates in the Lessoc area , which they sold to the Counts of Gruyères in 1278 . From then on, the entire village was under the county of Gruyères. After the last Count of Gruyères went bankrupt in 1554, Lessoc came under the rule of Freiburg in 1555 and was assigned to the Bailiwick of Gruyères. After the collapse of the Ancien Régime (1798), the village first belonged to the prefecture and from 1848 to the Gruyères district.

On June 26, 2001, the voters of Lessoc voted with a yes majority of around 80% for the merger of the municipalities of Lessoc, Neirivue , Albeuve and Montbovon . With effect from January 1, 2002, the new community Haut-Intyamon was created.

Attractions

Lessoc has a picturesque townscape of national importance. Numerous houses and farms from the 17th to 19th centuries have been preserved in the village, the facades of which are decorated with poyas (depictions of alpine lifts). In the village square there is an octagonal fountain covered with an onion roof (1796), the basin of which is made of Lessoc marble. The parish church of Saint-Martin was built between 1627 and 1635 and has furnishings from the 19th century. Next to it is the rectory from 1648. Lessoc has formed its own parish since 1643; before it belonged to the parish of Grandvillard.

On the footpath from Lessoc to Montbovon, you cross the Saane (dammed up to the lake here) on a covered wooden bridge built in 1667. In the hamlet of Le Bu is the Notre-Dame-des-Neiges chapel from 1864, next to it the La Grange Neuve farmhouse, which was built in 1688.

literature

Lessoc, village gruérien. - Friborg, Pro Friborg, 1996.

Web links

Commons : Lessoc - collection of images, videos and audio files

Marianne Rolle: Lessoc. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Aerial views of the village
Official website of the municipality of Haut-Intyamon (French)