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State :

Switzerland

Canton :

Freiburg (FR)

District :

Gruyère

Municipality :

Sâles

Postal code :

1626

former BFS no. :

XXXX

Coordinates :

563 869 / 166 638 coordinates: 46 ° 39 '0 " N , 6 ° 58' 0" O ; CH1903: five hundred sixty-three thousand eight hundred sixty-nine / one hundred sixty-six thousand six hundred and thirty-eight

Height :

893 m above sea level M.

Residents:

279 (2002)

map

Parish before the merger on January 1, 2001

Romanens ( Freiburger Patois Remanin ^?^/^I ) is a town and formerly an independent political municipality in the Gruyère district of the canton of Friborg in Switzerland . The former German name Romaning or Romaningen is no longer used today. On January 1, 2001 Romanens was incorporated into Sâles .

geography

Romanens lies at 893 m above sea level. M. , seven and a half kilometers west-northwest of the district capital Bulle (as the crow flies). The farming village extends on the gently sloping south-west slope of the range of hills of Mont Gibloux , in a panoramic position above the valley of the Neirigue and the Molasse plateau of the south-west Freiburg Central Plateau . The former municipality area was around 3.4 km². The area comprised the slope of Romanens, reached in the east to the Ruisseau des Roubattes brook and in the north to the forest heights of Les Verraux ( 976 m above sea level ).

population

With 279 inhabitants (2002), Romanens was one of the small communities in the canton of Friborg before the merger with Sâles. The hamlet of Vers chez Descloux ( 876 m above sea level ) also belonged to the village .

economy

Romanens is still a predominantly agricultural village today . The livestock and dairy industry have an important role in the employment structure of the population. The manufacture of bricks and straw mats used to play a major role in Romansh. In the last few decades the village has also developed into a residential community. Some workers are therefore commuters who work in the Bulle region and in Romont.

traffic

The village is very well developed in terms of traffic, although it is away from the larger thoroughfares. The next connection to the A12 motorway , which has been open continuously from Bern to Vevey since 1981 , is around five kilometers from the town center. Romanens itself has no connection to public transport. The stations Sâles Rueyres-and Treyfayes on the railway line from Romont by Bull , which was inaugurated on 1 July 1868 are around 1.5 km from Romanens removed.

history

The area around Romanens was settled very early, which could be attested by finds of traces from Roman times and burial sites from the Burgundian period. However, the first documentary mention of the place did not take place until 1380 under the current name. The place name goes back to the Burgundian personal name Hrôma and means with the suffix -ens as much as with the people of Hrôma.

In the Middle Ages Romanens first belonged to the Lords of Maules; Part of the village came to Guillaume de Montagny in the 13th century and to the Lords of Vaulruz in the 14th century . The Vaulruz reign was sold to Freiburg in 1536 and converted into a bailiwick that lasted until 1798. After the collapse of the Ancien Régime , Romanens belonged to what was then the Bulle district during the Helvetic Republic and the subsequent period until 1848, before it was incorporated into the Gruyères district. With effect from January 1, 2001, the previously independent municipalities of Romanens, Maules and Rueyres-Treyfayes were incorporated into Sâles.

Attractions

The Grotto of the Immaculate Conception is near Romanens. The village does not have its own church, it has always belonged to the parish of Sâles.

Web links

Aerial views of the village
François Genoud: Romanes. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .