Praz FR
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The place Praz (alternative Praz (Vully) ; Friborg Patois ) belongs to the municipality of Mont-Vully and is located in the Swiss canton of Friborg .
The German name Matten , as it appears, for example, on the Siegfried map from 1871, is no longer used today.
location
Praz is located at the foot of Mont Vully on Lake Murten on the delta of the Vaux-de-Praz valley exit . To the east of it lies the district of Nant , with which it has grown together today.
Origin of name
The name Praz has its roots in the Latin pratum (= meadow). In a document from 1375 there are two spellings: "villagium dov Pra" and "de Prato"; it is unclear whether both mean the same place. In 1390 there is the spelling "Prato in Willie" and from 1509 "Praz". The German name "Matten" is first recorded for 1523.
history
The first documentary mention comes from the year 1375, in which Praz is mentioned as a fiefdom of Murten and is assigned to the municipality of La Rivière together with other places. Until 1484 Praz belonged to the rule of Murten, which then became a common rule of Bern and Freiburg, and from 1798 to the district of Murten. In 1758 a fire destroyed the village.
building
In the village center there are some winegrowers' houses and stately patrician residences belonging to the von Erlach -Velga and von Wattenwyl families .
Attractions
Web links
- Marianne Rolle / SK: Praz. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
literature
- Hermann Schöpfer, Les Monuments d'Art et d'Histoire du Canton de Friborg Tomme IV, Le Destric du Lac (I) Volume 81 of the series Kunstdenkmäler der Schweiz, Édition Wiese Sa Bâle 1989 ISBN 3-909158-21-8 Pages 359– 382
Coordinates: 46 ° 57 '10.2 " N , 7 ° 5' 50" E ; CH1903: 574,010 / 200252