Pont (Veveyse)

Pont (Veveyse)
State :	Switzerland
Canton :	Freiburg (FR)
District :	Vivisbach
Municipality :	Le Flon
Postal code :	1699
former BFS no. :	XXXX
Coordinates :	554 883  /  159288 coordinates: 46 ° 35 '0 "  N , 6 ° 51' 0"  O ; CH1903:  five hundred fifty-four thousand eight hundred eighty-three  /  159288
Height :	750  m above sea level M.
Residents:	186 (2002)
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Parish before the merger on January 1, 2004

Pont ( French [ pɔ̃ ]; fpr. [ (A) pɔ̃ / pɑ̃ ]) is a scattered settlement and formerly an independent political municipality in the Vivisbach district of the Swiss canton of Friborg . Since 2004, Pont has been part of the newly created municipality of Le Flon through the union with Porsel and Bouloz .

geography

Pont (Veveyse) is 750  m above sea level. M. , seven kilometers north-northwest of the district capital Châtel-Saint-Denis (linear distance ). The scattered settlement extends in the Flon valley, east of the upper Broyetal , in the Molasse hill country of the southwestern Freiburg Central Plateau . The former municipality area was around 2.2 km². The area comprised a section of the valley basin of the Flon and its right side stream Maflon as well as the ridge of Porsel (up to 830  m above sea level ) lying in between .

population

With 186 inhabitants (2002), Pont (Veveyse) was one of the small communities in the canton of Friborg before the merger. Pont (Veveyse) includes the hamlet of Perrey-Martin ( 803  m above sea level ) on the ridge between Flon and Maflon as well as several farm settlements and individual farms.

economy

Pont (Veveyse) is still today a predominantly agricultural village. The livestock and dairy industry have an important role in the employment structure of the population. In the last few decades the village has also developed into a residential community. Some workers are therefore commuters who work in the Oron and Romont regions.

traffic

The village is on the main road from Romont to Oron-la-Ville . Pont (Veveyse) is connected to the public transport network by the Transports publics Fribourgeois bus route , which runs from Romont via Oron-la-Ville to Palézieux-Gare .

history

The place name, first documented as a designation of origin around the middle of the 12th century ( Radulfus de Ponto ), means 'bridge, footbridge, plank path over marshy ground'. Since the Middle Ages , Pont was the seat of a small lordship of the Illens family, whose castle was on the promontory near the mouth of the Maflon and the Flon. The rule came under the influence of the Counts of Savoy in the 13th century. When Berne conquered Vaud in 1536, Pont (Veveyse) came under the rule of Friborg and was assigned to the Vogtei Rue . At the same time the castle was abandoned and quickly fell into ruin. After the collapse of the Ancien Régime (1798), the village belonged to what was then the Rue district during the Helvetic and the following period, before being incorporated into the Veveyse district in 1848. Pont (Veveyse) does not have its own church, until 1958 it belonged to the parish of Saint-Martin , since then it has been attached to the parish of Porsel.

As part of the community mergers promoted by the canton of Friborg since 2000, the voters of Pont (Veveyse) voted on June 10, 2003 with a majority of 69% for a merger of their community with Porsel and Bouloz . With effect from January 1, 2004, the municipality of Le Flon was created , which was named after the stream Flon, which crossed all three previous municipal areas.

Web links

• Official website of the municipality of Le Flon
• Aerial views of Pont (Veveyse)
• Lucienne Hubler: Pont (Veveyse). In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Florence Cattin: Pont FR (La Veveyse) In: Dictionnaire toponymique des communes suisses - Lexicon of Swiss municipality names - Dizionario toponomastico dei comuni svizzeri (DTS | LSG). Center de dialectologie, Université de Neuchâtel. Verlag Huber, Frauenfeld / Stuttgart / Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-7193-1308-5 and Éditions Payot, Lausanne 2005, ISBN 2-601-03336-3 , p. 709.