Montet (Broye)

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Montet (Broye)
Coat of arms of Montet (Broye)
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Canton of FriborgCanton of Friborg Freiburg (FR)
District : Broyew
Municipality : Les Montetsi2
Postal code : 1483
former BFS no. : XXXX
Coordinates : 556.35 thousand  /  185 217 coordinates: 46 ° 49 '0 "  N , 6 ° 52' 0"  O ; CH1903:  five hundred and fifty-six thousand three hundred fifty  /  185 217
Height : 490  m above sea level M.
Residents: 408 (2002)
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Montet (Broye) (Switzerland)
Montet (Broye)
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Parish before the merger on January 1, 2004

Montet (Broye) is a town and formerly an independent political municipality in the Broye district in the canton of Friborg in Switzerland . On January 1, 2004, Montet (Broye) merged with Frasses , Granges-de-Vesin and Aumont to form the new municipality of Les Montets .

geography

Montet (Broye) is 490  m above sea level. M. , four kilometers south-southeast of the district capital Estavayer-le-Lac (linear distance ). The village extends on a hill between the Petite Glâne in the south and the broad valley basin of the Arignon in the north, at the northeastern foot of the Molasse hill country between Lake Neuchâtel and the Broyetal , in the northwestern Freiburg Central Plateau . The former municipality area was around 2.0 km². The area was part of the Broye Plain in the far east and extended over the Montet (Broye) hill and the Petite Glâne valley, into which the Bainoz stream flows here, to the Molasse height west of Vesin.

population

With 408 inhabitants (2002), Montet (Broye) was one of the small communities in the canton of Friborg before the merger. Some individual farms belong to Montet (Broye).

economy

Montet (Broye) was a predominantly agricultural village until the second half of the 20th century . Mills and a sawmill used to be operated on the Petite Glâne. Even today, arable farming , fruit growing and animal husbandry have an important place in the income structure of the population. Further jobs are available in local small businesses and in the service sector, including a furniture factory and a metal construction company. One of the training centers of the international focolare movement (a Catholic lay movement) is located in Montet . In 2010 around 100 men and women from all over the world live there, many of whom attend a one-year school of life. The education and meeting center is visited by around 5,000 people (groups of young people, Catholic parishes and Reformed parishes, families, etc.) every year. In the last few decades the village has also developed into a residential community. Many employed people are therefore commuters who mainly work in the Estavayer-le-Lac and Payerne regions.

traffic

The village is on the old main road from Payerne to Estavayer-le-Lac . The nearest connection to the A1 motorway (Lausanne – Bern), which opened in 2001 and crosses the northern municipality, is around 2 km from the town center. Montet (Broye) is connected to the public transport network by a bus line operated by Transports publics Fribourgeois , which serves the hinterland on a circular route from Estavayer-le-Lac. The railway line from Payerne to Yverdon-les-Bains runs only a few 100 m east of the village, but has no stop on the municipal floor.

history

The first written mention of the place took place in 1184 under the name Montel ; The name Monz has been handed down from 1215 . Montet is a diminutive form of the French word mont (mountain).

Since the Middle Ages, Montet (Broye) has been under the rule of Estavayer. After Bern had conquered the Vaud in 1536, the village came under the rule of Friborg and was assigned to the Estavayer Bailiwick. After the collapse of the Ancien Régime (1798), Montet (Broye) was part of the Estavayer district during the Helvetic and subsequent periods before being incorporated into the Broye district in 1848.

As part of the community mergers supported by the canton of Friborg since 2000, the residents of Montet (Broye), Frasses , Granges-de-Vesin and Aumont spoke out in favor of a merger. With effect from January 1st, 2004 the new municipality of Les Montets was created .

Attractions

The parish church of Sainte-Trinité was consecrated in 1663 and has an impressive baroque altar.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.focolari-montet.ch

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