Rueyres-les-Prés

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Rueyres-les-Prés
Coat of arms of Rueyres-les-Prés
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Canton of FriborgCanton of Friborg Freiburg (FR)
District : Broyew
Municipality : Estavayeri2
Postal code : 1542
former BFS no. : 2039
Coordinates : 560240  /  189 945 coordinates: 46 ° 51 '34 "  N , 6 ° 55' 2"  O ; CH1903:  560240  /  189,945
Height : 473  m above sea level M.
Area : 3.18  km²
Residents: 474 (December 31, 2016)
Population density : 149 inhabitants per km²
Website: www.estavayer.ch
Rueyres-les-Prés

Rueyres-les-Prés

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Rueyres-les-Prés (Switzerland)
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Parish before the merger on January 1, 2017

Rueyres-les-Prés ( Friborg Patois Ruêre-lè-Prâ ? / I ) was a municipality in the Broye district of the canton of Friborg in Switzerland until December 31, 2016 . At the. On January 1, 2017, Rueyres-les-Prés merged with the former municipalities of Bussy , Estavayer-le-Lac , Morens , Murist , Vernay and Vuissens to form the new municipality of Estavayer . Audio file / audio sample

geography

Rueyres-les-Prés is 473  m above sea level. M. , four and a half kilometers north-northwest of Payerne (straight line) in the Friborg exclave Estavayer-le-Lac . The clustered village extends from a promising location on the slightly south-sloping slope north of the Broye plain , in the north-western Freiburg Central Plateau .

The area of ​​the 3.2 km² municipal area includes a section of the ridge that separates Lake Neuchâtel from the Broye plain. In the southeast, Rueyres-les-Prés has a small portion of the Broye plain in the area of ​​the canalised river course of the Petite Glâne . From here the parish extends northward on the wide ridge to the edge of the Moraye forest . On the plateau of Montbrelloz is 505  m above sea level. M. reached the highest point of Rueyres-les-Prés. In 1997, 13% of the municipal area was in settlements, 2% in forests and woodlands, 84% in agriculture and a little less than 1% was unproductive land.

Some individual farms belong to Rueyres-les-Prés. Neighboring municipalities of Rueyres-les-Prés are Morens and Vernay in the canton of Friborg and Grandcour and Payerne in the canton of Vaud .

population

With 474 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2016), Rueyres-les-Prés is one of the small communities in the canton of Friborg. 98.3% of the residents are French-speaking, 1.3% German-speaking and 0.4% speak Portuguese (as of 2000). The population of Rueyres-les-Prés was 215 in 1900. In the course of the 20th century the population fluctuated between 180 and 220 inhabitants. Slight population growth has only been recorded in recent years.

economy

Rueyres-les-Prés was a predominantly agricultural village until the second half of the 20th century . Even today, arable farming , fruit growing and animal husbandry have an important place in the income structure of the population. Some other jobs are available in local small businesses and in the service sector. To the south of Rueyres-les-Prés (partly in the municipality) are the slopes of the Payerne military airfield. In the last few decades the village has also developed into a residential community thanks to its attractive location. Many employed people are therefore commuters who mainly work in the Estavayer-le-Lac and Payerne regions.

traffic

The community is very well developed in terms of traffic, although it is located off the main thoroughfares on a connecting road from Payerne to Forel . The nearest connection to the A1 motorway (Lausanne-Bern), which opened in 2001, is around 6 km from the town center. Rueyres-les-Prés is connected to the public transport network by a post bus line between Payerne and Chevroux and by a bus route operated by Transports publics Fribourgeois , which runs as a circular route from Estavayer-le-Lac.

history

The village was called in the 12th century probably Rivorium , in the 13th century Rivoria and in the 14th century Ruery . Only the names Rueria (1437) and Ruere (1453) are documented. The place name is derived from the Latin word roboretum (oak grove).

Since the Middle Ages, Rueyres-les-Prés has been under the rule of Estavayer. The village came to the Lords of Ligerz, after 1487 to the de Pontherose family and at the end of the 17th century to the patrician family von Diesbach , who sold it to the city of Freiburg in 1772. After Bern had conquered the Vaud in 1536, the village came under the rule of Friborg and was assigned to the Estavayer Bailiwick. After the collapse of the Ancien Régime (1798), Rueyres-les-Prés was part of the Estavayer district during the Helvetic Republic and beyond, before being incorporated into the Broye district in 1848.

Attractions

The core of the parish church of Saint-Loup goes back to the mid-14th century; In 1847 the church was extensively restored. Some stately farmhouses from the 17th to 19th centuries have been preserved in the town center.

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Commons : Rueyres-les-Prés  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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