Morens

State :

Switzerland

Canton :

Freiburg (FR)

District :

Broye

Municipality :

Estavayer

Postal code :

1541

former BFS no. :

2033

Coordinates :

559401 / 188160 coordinates: 46 ° 50 '36 " N , 6 ° 54' 23" O ; CH1903: 559401 / 188160

Height :

449 m above sea level M.

Area :

2.58 km²

Residents:

178 (December 31, 2016)

Population density :

69 inhabitants per km²

Website:

www.estavayer.ch

Morens

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Parish before the merger on January 1, 2017

Morens (FR) ( Freiburger Patois Morin ^?^/^I ) was a municipality in the Broye district of the canton of Friborg in Switzerland until December 31, 2016 . Your name will be given the canton abbreviation by the Federal Statistical Office in order to avoid confusion with the homophonic community Morrens in the canton of Vaud. On January 1, 2017, Morens merged with the former municipalities of Bussy , Estavayer-le-Lac , Murist , Rueyres-les-Prés , Vernay and Vuissens to form the new municipality of Estavayer .

geography

Morens is 449 m above sea level. M. , three and a half kilometers northwest of Payerne ( linear distance ) in the Friborg exclave Estavayer-le-Lac . The farming village extends on the northwestern edge of the Broye Plain , near the canalized Petite Glâne , at the foot of the wide ridge that separates the plain from Lake Neuchâtel , in the northwestern Freiburg Central Plateau .

The area of the community area of 2.6 km² covers a section of the Freiburg Central Plateau. The municipality extends from the Broye plain with the Petite Glâne canalized here to the northwest to the adjacent Molasse ridges with the wooded areas Bois des Moilles and Les Râpes . The height is subdivided by several short stream valleys. The highest point of Morens is 505 m above sea level. M. on the plateau of Montbrelloz. In 1997, 12% of the municipal area was accounted for by settlements, 16% for forests and woodland, 71% for agriculture and a little less than 1% was unproductive land.

Some individual farms belong to Morens. The neighboring municipalities of Morens are Bussy , Vernay and Rueyres-les-Prés in the canton of Friborg and Payerne in the canton of Vaud .

population

With 178 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2016), Morens was one of the smallest communities in the canton of Friborg. 89.4% of the residents are French-speaking, 8.1% German-speaking and 1.6% speak Portuguese (as of 2000). The population of Morens was 148 in 1900. After a peak with 190 inhabitants (1920), a population decline of 35% to 122 inhabitants was registered by 1980 due to strong emigration. Since then a slight population growth has been recorded again.

economy

Morens was a predominantly agricultural village until the second half of the 20th century . Even today, the have farming and fruit cultivation and animal husbandry an important role in the employment structure of the population. Outside of the primary sector there are hardly any jobs in the village. South of Morens (partly in the municipality) are the slopes of the Payerne military airfield. 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 community is very well developed in terms of traffic, although it is located away from the major thoroughfares on a connecting road from Bussy to Rueyres-les-Prés . The closest connection to the A1 motorway (Lausanne-Bern), which opened in 2001, is around 4 km from the town center. Morens is connected to the public transport network via a post bus line between Payerne and Chevroux and a bus route operated by Transports publics Fribourgeois , which runs as a circular route from Estavayer-le-Lac .

history

The village was first mentioned in a document in 1142 under its current name. The spellings Moreins (1228) and Morin (1665) also appeared later . The place name is derived from the Latin personal name Maurus . Since the Middle Ages , Morens was part of the Bussy rule, which was under the lords of Estavayer. After Bern had conquered Vaud in 1536, Morens came under the rule of Friborg and was assigned to the Estavayer Bailiwick. After the collapse of the Ancien Régime (1798), the village was part of the Estavayer district during the Helvetic and subsequent periods before being incorporated into the Broye district in 1848.

Attractions

The medieval church of Morens stands apart from the village on the plain near the Petite Glâne.

Web links

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

Aerial views of the village
Marianne Rolle: Morens. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .