Montagny FR

FR is the abbreviation for the canton of Friborg in Switzerland and is used to avoid confusion with other entries of the name Montagny .

Montagny
State :	Switzerland
Canton :	Freiburg (FR)
District :	Broye
BFS no. :	2029
Postal code :	1774 Montagny-les-Monts 1776 Montagny-la-Ville 1775 Mannens-Grandsivaz
Coordinates :	565928  /  184475 coordinates: 46 ° 48 '38 "  N , 6 ° 59' 32"  O ; CH1903:  565928  /  184475
Height :	563  m above sea level M.
Height range :	455–664 m above sea level M.
Area :	17.54  km²
Residents:	2634 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	150 inhabitants per km²
Website:	www.montagny-fr.ch
Location of the municipality

Montagny is a municipality in the Broye district in the canton of Friborg in Switzerland . The former German name Montenach is no longer used today. Montagny emerged on January 1, 2000 from the merger of the previously independent municipalities of Montagny-la-Ville ( Friborg Patois Montanyi la Velâ ^{? / I} ) and Montagny-les-Monts (Friborg Patois Montanyi lè Mon ^{? / I} ). With effect from January 1, 2004, Mannens-Grandsivaz was incorporated. The municipal administration is located in Cousset.

geography

Montagny is between 500 and 650 meters high (Montagny-les-Monts 563  m above sea level ), 4 kilometers as the crow flies east-southeast of Payerne . The clustered village extends on a ledge above the Arbogne valley , which is cut into the molasse layers of the hill country, in the north-western Freiburg Central Plateau .

The area of ​​the 17.5 km² large municipal area includes a section of the Molasse hill country in the Freiburg Central Plateau. The area is traversed by the Arbogne from southeast to northwest in a deep valley, which usually has only a very narrow valley. Only shortly before it enters the Broye plain does the valley below Cousset expand into a wide hollow.

To the east of the Arbogne (area of ​​the former municipality of Montagny-la-Ville, around 4.9 km²) the municipal soil extends to the meadow height of Fin de Longemalle ( 612  m above sea level ), which is bordered to the north by the Ruisseau du Creux stream. It also includes the densely forested erosion valley of the Ruisseau des Chaudeires (right bank of the Arbogne), flanked by the forests of La Bandeire (at 667  m above sea level, the highest point of Montagny) in the north and Forêt de Berley in the south.

West of the Arbogne (area of ​​the former municipality of Montagny-les-Monts, around 7.5 km²) are the Bas du Champ basin near Villarey, the Bois Girard forest ( 658  m above sea level ) and the Montagny-les-Monts plateau . Monts. The forest of Chanéaz and the two ponds of Étangs des Gours are bordered by a large arch of the Arbogne and the valley of its left side stream, the Ruisseau des Pelons . The exclave Tours on the left slope of the Arbogne, completely enclosed by the canton of Vaud, also belongs to Montagny.

To the south, the municipality extends over the heights of Carro des Planches ( 658  m above sea level ) and the Grandsivaz plateau to the slope of the Grande Fin crest . The Arbogne forms the southeastern border. In 1997, 8% of the municipal area was in settlements, 33% in forests and woodlands, 58% in agriculture and a little less than 1% was unproductive land.

Montagny consists of six villages and several hamlets, as well as a few individual farms.

• Montagny-les-Monts (250 inhabitants), German formerly Montenach-Berg and Ober-Montenach : 563  m above sea level. M. , on the plateau west of the Arbogne and on the eastern slope of the Bois Girard
• Montagny-la-Ville (437 inhabitants), German formerly Montenach-Stadt or only Montenach : 560  m above sea level. M. , on the plateau east of the Arbogne and on the southern slope of the Fin de Longemalle
• Cousset (520 inhabitants), seat of the municipal administration: 485  m above sea level. M. , in the broad valley west of the Arbogne at the northern foot of the Bois Girard
• Mannens : 645  m above sea level M. , on a high plateau above the valley of the Ruisseau des Pelons
• Grandsivaz : 624  m above sea level M. , on the Molasse plateau west of the Arbogne
• Villarey (66 inhabitants): 500  m above sea level M. , on the north-western slope of the Bois Girard
• Tours (5 inhabitants): 472  m above sea level M. , in an exclave on the eastern slope of the Arbogne
• Les Arbognes (34 inhabitants): 494  m above sea level M. , on the Arbogne on the valley floor between Montagny-les-Monts and Montagny-la-Ville
• Le Grabou (10 inhabitants): 565  m above sea level M. , on the Ruisseau des Pelons on the edge of the Chanéaz forest

The neighboring municipalities of Montagny are Belmont-Broye , Ponthaux , Prez and Torny in the canton of Friborg and Payerne and Corcelles-près-Payerne in the canton of Vaud .

Aerial view of Montagny-les-Monts (1964)

Aerial view of Montagny-la-Ville (1964)

population

With 2634 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2018), Montagny is one of the medium-sized communities in the canton of Friborg. 91.0% of the residents speak French, 5.1% speak German and 1.4% speak Portuguese (as of 2000). The population of Montagny was 1214 in 1850 and 1504 in 1900. By 1930 the population increased further to 1705 inhabitants. After that, a decrease of almost 20% to 1,388 inhabitants (1960) was recorded due to strong emigration. Since then, significant population growth has been observed again.

economy

Until the second half of the 20th century, Montagny was a predominantly agricultural village. In the past, the water power of the Arbogne was used to drive mills and sawmills. Even today, arable farming , fruit growing , dairy farming and cattle breeding play an important role in the income structure of the population.

Further jobs are available in local small businesses and in the service sector. Since the middle of the 20th century, some companies have settled in Montagny. The industrial zones are mainly located in Cousset and in the Arbogne valley. Today there are construction and transport companies, metal construction, information technology, a grain mill and a sawmill in the community. In the last few decades, thanks to its attractive location, Montagny has also developed into a residential community. New residential areas are located in Montagny-la-Ville and Montagny-les-Monts as well as in Mannens-Grandsivaz. Numerous workers are therefore commuters who mainly work in the Freiburg and Payerne regions.

traffic

The community is very well developed in terms of transport. It is located on the main road from Freiburg to Payerne . On August 25, 1876, the railway line from Freiburg to Payerne with a train station in Cousset was put into operation. A post bus line provides fine distribution in public transport, serving all of the villages belonging to the municipality of Montagny (except Villarey) from the Cousset train station.

history

The municipality of Montagny was settled very early, which was proven by the discovery of a tumulus from the Bronze Age . There are also traces of settlement from the Roman period .

The place was first mentioned in documents in the 12th century under the names Montaniacus , Montagniacus , Montaniei and Montanie . Later, a distinction was made between two localities: Montagnie li villa , Montagnye (1320), Montagniacum la villa (1430) opposite Montagnye le Mont (1480).

Montagny was founded in 1127 by the dukes of Zähringen . From this a rule developed in 1146 at the latest, which came under the influence of the Counts of Savoy in the middle of the 13th century . The town of Montagny was fortified and expanded under Peter II of Savoy ; at that time it had five streets and had up to 500 inhabitants. The sovereignty of the lords of Montagny had meanwhile expanded into an important rule. In addition to the villages that are now part of Montagny, Domdidier, Dompierre, Russy, Lovens and Gletterens also belonged to it, as well as a number of scattered properties in the wider area, on Mont Vully and on Lake Geneva. The rule had its heyday in the first half of the 14th century. At that time, Montagny was an important political center, mainly based on agriculture, because handicrafts and trade could not develop due to the proximity to the cities of Freiburg and Payerne.

From around 1350 onwards there were repeated tensions with the lords of Freiburg, who tried to expand their power to the west. On Christmas 1447, Montagny was destroyed in the war between Freiburg and the Savoy, with the castle remaining almost undamaged. In the following period, the small town was rebuilt under the Savoy and given extensive freedom, which led to a new heyday of Montagny, which now had around 700 inhabitants.

After the Burgundian Wars , Freiburg bought the Montagny estate in 1478 and converted it into a bailiwick. The family of the Lords of Montagny died out shortly afterwards in 1491. In 1504 the town and the castle were destroyed in a fire. The place was rebuilt afterwards, but never regained the importance it had before the fire. The castle was the residence of the bailiff appointed by Freiburg. The Bailiwick of Montagny included the area from Middes in the south to Saint-Aubin in the north and the Gletterens exclave .

The Church of Notre-Dame de Tours on the eastern slope of the Arbogne was an important pilgrimage site and parish church of Montagny in the 15th century. After Bern conquered Vaud in 1536 and introduced the Reformation here , a contract between Bern and Friborg stipulated that Tours would remain Catholic and that it would come to Montagny as a small exclave that only included the church, the rectory and a courtyard .

After the collapse of the Ancien Régime (1798), Montagny and its surroundings formed the district of Montagny during the Helvetic and the following period, before it was incorporated into the district of Broye in 1848. The castle, which was no longer in good condition around 1800, was then left to decay and a few decades later was only a ruin.

With effect from January 1, 2000, the two independent communities Montagny-les-Monts and Montagny-la-Ville were merged. As part of the community mergers funded by the canton of Friborg, the community of Mannens-Grandsivaz was also incorporated into Montagny on January 1, 2004 .

Attractions

See also : List of cultural assets in Montagny

Montagny-les-Monts

From the former castle of the Lords of Montagny, only the round residential tower from the 13th century remains. It was restored in 1996, equipped with a staircase and today serves as a lookout tower. The former dimensions of the castle can still be recognized from some remains of the wall. Nothing is visible of the former city complex.

The Catholic Church de l'Immaculée Conception was built in 1760 and enlarged in 1926. The oldest part of the single-nave church is the choir from the 14th century, which was integrated into the former castle chapel. Wall paintings from 1500 and from the 17th century have been preserved in the choir. The pilgrimage church of Tours was rebuilt in 1780 and extensively restored in 1946. It contains a statue of Our Lady from the 14th century.

Web links

Commons : Montagny (Friborg)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikisource: Montenach in the Topographia Helvetiae, Rhaetiae et Valesiae (Matthäus Merian)  - sources and full texts

• Official website of the municipality of Montagny (FR) (French)
• Aerial views of Montagny-les-Monts
• Aerial views of Montagny-la-Ville
• Aerial views of Cousset
• Castle world: Château de Montagny
• Stefan Jäggi: Montagny (FR, rule). In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Marianne Rolle: Mannens-Grandsivaz. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Marianne Rolle: Montagny-la-Ville. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Marianne Rolle: Montagny-les-Monts. 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 .