Porsel

State :

Switzerland

Canton :

Freiburg (FR)

District :

Vivisbach

Municipality :

Le Flon

Postal code :

1699

former BFS no. :

XXXX

Coordinates :

556174 / 161131 coordinates: 46 ° 36 '0 " N , 6 ° 52' 0" O ; CH1903: 556174 / 161131

Height :

813 m above sea level M.

Residents:

406 (2002)

map

Parish before the merger on January 1, 2004

Porsel ( French [ pɔʀsɛl ]; fpr. [ (A) pɔˈʃiː ], Pochi ^?^/^I ) is a town and formerly an independent political municipality in the Vivisbach district of the Swiss canton of Friborg . Since 2004 Porsel has belonged to the newly created municipality of Le Flon together with Pont (Veveyse) and Bouloz .

geography

Porsel is 813 m above sea level. M. , eight kilometers north-northwest of the district capital Châtel-Saint-Denis (linear distance ). The village extends in a promising location north of 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 3.8 km². The area extended from the Maflon valley to the southeast over the ridge of Porsel (up to 870 m above sea level ) and the Flon valley to the forest heights to the south. A small exclave comprised the Porsel moor near Fiaugères.

population

With 406 inhabitants (2002), Porsel was one of the small communities in the canton of Friborg before the merger. Several farm settlements and individual farms belong to Porsel.

economy

Until the second half of the 20th century, Porsel was predominantly an agricultural village. Even today, dairy farming , animal husbandry and, to a lesser extent, arable farming play an important role in the income structure of the population. Further jobs are available in local small businesses and in the service sector, including in companies in the construction industry, IT and the manufacture of agricultural machinery. In the last few decades, Porsel has also developed into a residential community thanks to its attractive location. Many workers are therefore commuters who work mainly in the Romont , Bulle and Oron regions.

traffic

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

history

The area of Porsel was settled very early, which was proven by the discovery of a hoe from the Middle Bronze Age and traces of settlement from the Roman period . The first written mention of the place as Porcel ( s ) comes from the middle of the 12th century; the place name is interpreted as a diminutive of the name of the neighboring village of Pont .

Since the Middle Ages Porsel belonged to the Oron lordship, but came as a fief to the Illens family, who resided in a castle near Pont (Veveyse). In 1565 at the latest, Porsel came under the rule of Freiburg and was assigned to the Vogtei Rue . 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.

In the context of the municipal mergers promoted by the canton of Friborg since 2000, the voters of Porsel voted on June 10, 2003 with a yes majority of 98.4% for a merger of their municipality with Pont (Veveyse) and Bouloz . With effect from January 1, 2004, the municipality of Le Flon was created , named after the Flon brook, which crosses the areas of all three former municipalities.

Attractions

Since 1641 Porsel formed an independent parish. The parish church was built in 1645, but was given its present shape after extensive redesign in 1872 and 1873.

Web links

Official website of the municipality of Le Flon
Jean-Claude Vial: Porsel. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Aerial views of the village

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Florence Cattin: Porsel FR (La Veveyse) in: Dictionnaire toponymique des communes suisses - Lexicon of Swiss community 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. 712.

[fc-1] Florence Cattin: Porsel FR (La Veveyse) in: Dictionnaire toponymique des communes suisses - Lexicon of Swiss community 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. 712.