Macconnens
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District : | Glane | |
Municipality : | Villaz | |
Postal code : | 1691 | |
former BFS no. : | XXXX | |
Coordinates : | 565199 / 175894 | |
Height : | 710 m above sea level M. | |
Residents: | 80 (1970) | |
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Macconnens is a scattered settlement and formerly an independent political municipality in the Glane district of the canton of Friborg in Switzerland .
geography
Macconnens is 710 m above sea level. M. , seven kilometers northeast of the district capital Romont (linear distance ). The scattered settlement extends on the northern slope of the Glâne valley , in the Molasse hills of the western Freiburg Central Plateau . The former municipality area was around 1.2 km². The area reached from the Glâne northward over the slope of Macconnens with the plastered areas La Patte and La Fayaule to the height of Le Châtelet (up to 740 m above sea level ).
population
With around 80 inhabitants (1970), Macconnens was one of the smallest municipalities in the canton of Friborg before the merger. Various individual farms also belonged to Macconnens.
economy
Macconnens still lives from agriculture , especially from dairy farming and cattle breeding, as well as from fruit growing .
traffic
The village is only a short distance from the main road from Freiburg to Romont . Macconnens has no connection to the public transport network.
history
The first written mention of the place took place in 1320 under the name Masconens . The names Macconens (1335) and Mascognin (in the 16th century) appeared later . The place name is derived from the Burgundian personal name Masco and means with the suffix -ens as much as with the people of Masco.
Macconnens had been under the sovereignty of the House of Savoy since the Middle Ages . When the Bernese conquered Vaud in 1536, the village came under the rule of Friborg and was assigned to the Bailiwick of Romont. After the collapse of the Ancien Régime (1798), Macconnens belonged to the Romont district during the Helvetic and subsequent periods before being incorporated into the Glâne district in 1848.
With effect from January 1, 1973 Macconnens was incorporated into Villarimboud . As part of the community mergers funded by the canton of Friborg since 2000, Villarimboud and Lussy merged on January 1, 2005 to form the new community La Folliaz , making Macconnens a hamlet of La Folliaz. On January 1, 2020, La Folliaz merged with Villaz-Saint-Pierre to form the new municipality of Villaz .
Web links
- Marianne Rolle: Macconnens. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .