Nierlet-les-Bois

State :

Switzerland

Canton :

Freiburg (FR)

District :

Saane / Sarine

Municipality :

Ponthaux

Postal code :

1772

former BFS no. :

XXXX

Coordinates :

570 341 / 185 131 coordinates: 46 ° 49 '0 " N , 7 ° 3' 0" O ; CH1903: five hundred seventy thousand three hundred and forty-one / 185 131

Height :

674 m above sea level M.

Residents:

100 (1980)

Chapel of Nierlet-les-Bois

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Parish before the merger on January 1, 1981

Nierlet-les-Bois ( Freiburger Patois Nyarlè ^?^/^I ) is a town and formerly an independent political municipality in the District de la Sarine (German: Saanebezirk) in the canton of Friborg in Switzerland . On January 1, 1981, Nierlet-les-Bois was incorporated into Ponthaux .

geography

Nierlet-les-Bois is 674 m above sea level. M. , eight kilometers west of the canton capital Friborg (beeline). The village extends on the gently sloping western slope of the forest hill of the Forêt de l'Etat , in the headwaters of the village stream of Grolley, in the Molasse hill country between the Broyetal and the Saane valley , in the Freiburg Central Plateau . The former municipality area was around 2 km². The area reached from the valley basin of the Grolley brook southwards over the height of Nierlet-les-Bois to the catchment area of the Sonnaz . A large part of the Forêt de l'Etat (up to 738 m above sea level ) also belonged to the municipality.

population

With around 100 inhabitants (1980), Nierlet-les-Bois was one of the small communities in the canton of Friborg before the merger. A number of individual farms also belonged to Nierlet-les-Bois.

economy

Nierlet-les-Bois still lives from agriculture , especially from agriculture and dairy farming . In the last two decades, families who are mainly employed outside the village have also moved into the village.

traffic

The village is off the main thoroughfares, but is easily accessible from Grolley and Ponthaux . The village is connected to the public transport network by the Transports publics Fribourgeois bus route , which runs from Freiburg via Noréaz to Nierlet-les-Bois.

history

The first written mention of the place took place in 1171 under the name Nuarlez . Later the names Nyalet , Niarlet (1404) and Nyarlet lo Bos (1475) appeared. The place name goes back to the Latin word nucariolum (walnut grove ).

Since the Middle Ages , Nierlet-les-Bois has belonged to the Montagny domain . The village came under the rule of Freiburg through purchase in 1478 and was assigned to the Bailiwick of Montagny. After the collapse of the Ancien Régime (1798), Nierlet-les-Bois belonged to the Payerne district during the Helvetic period , to the Montagny district from 1803 and to the Friborg district from 1815, before it was incorporated into the Saane district in 1848 with the new cantonal constitution. With effect from January 1, 1981, Nierlet-les-Bois was incorporated into Ponthaux . Nierlet-les-Bois has a chapel; it belongs to the parish of Ponthaux.

Interior of the chapel
Entrance to Nierlet-les-Bois
Bus stop

Web links

Commons : Nierlets-les-Bois - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Aerial views of the village
Marianne Rolle: Nierlet-les-Bois. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .