Praratoud

State :

Switzerland

Canton :

Freiburg (FR)

District :

Broye

Municipality :

Surpierre

Postal code :

1528

former BFS no. :

XXXX

Coordinates :

555008 / 175962 coordinates: 46 ° 44 '0 " N , 6 ° 51' 0" O ; CH1903: 555008 / 175962

Height :

650 m above sea level M.

Residents:

63 (2000)

Praratoud

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Parish before the merger on January 1, 2005

Praratoud ( Freiburger Patois Pràtathou ^?^/^I ) is a village and formerly an independent political municipality in the Broye district of the canton of Friborg in Switzerland . On January 1, 2005, Praratoud was incorporated into Surpierre .

geography

Praratoud lies at 650 m above sea level. M. , one and a half kilometers southwest of Surpierre and twelve kilometers southwest of Payerne (as the crow flies) in the Exclave Surpierre in Freiburg. The small farming village extends on a wide terrace west of the Broyetal , in the Molasse hills of the western Freiburg Central Plateau . The former municipality area was around 2.2 km². The area extended from the edge over the steep drop to the Broyetal westward over the plateau of Praratoud and the forest Bois des Meules to the ridge of the Grand Bois ( 700 m above sea level ), which separates the plateau from the valley of the Lembe .

population

With 63 inhabitants (2000), Praratoud was one of the smallest municipalities in the canton of Friborg before the merger. In 1900 the community still had 97 inhabitants. The hamlet of Le Sensuis ( 675 m above sea level ) on the southern slope of the Grand Bois and some individual farms also belong to Praratoud .

economy

Praratoud still lives from agriculture , especially from agriculture , dairy farming and cattle breeding .

traffic

The place is away from the larger thoroughfares on a connecting road from Surpierre to Cremin . The village is connected to the public transport network by a Postbus course that runs from Cheiry via Granges-près-Marnand to Lucens .

history

Praratoud is first mentioned in 1668 as Praratos , but the place existed much earlier. The place name consists of the old French word pra (meadow) and the Germanic personal name Ratholf .

Since the Middle Ages , Praratoud has belonged to the Surpierre rule and shared their fortunes. After Bern had conquered Vaud, the village came under the rule of Friborg on February 21, 1536, and then under the rule of Friborg on March 1, 1536, and was assigned to the Bailiwick of Surpierre. After the collapse of the Ancien Régime (1798), Praratoud belonged to the Estavayer district during the Helvetic Republic until 1803 and then to the Surpierre district before being incorporated into the Broye district in 1848.

As part of the community mergers funded by the canton of Friborg since 2000, the previously politically independent community of Praratoud was incorporated into Surpierre with effect from January 1, 2005 .

Attractions

Web links

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