Salvenach

State :

Switzerland

Canton :

Freiburg (FR)

District :

lake

Municipality :

Murten

Postal code :

1794

former BFS no. :

2277

Coordinates :

577 991 / 195752 coordinates: 46 ° 54 '45 " N , 7 ° 8' 59" O ; CH1903: five hundred and seventy-seven thousand nine hundred and ninety-one / 195752

Height :

561 m above sea level M.

Area :

3.85 km²

Residents:

593 (December 31, 2015)

Population density :

154 inhabitants per km²

Website:

www.murten-morat.ch

Entrance to Salvenach, coming from Gurmels

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Parish before the merger on January 1, 2016

Salvenach ( French: Salvagny ; Freiburger Patois Thevanyi ^?^/^I ) was a municipality in the lake district of the canton of Friborg in Switzerland until December 31, 2015 . On January 1st, 2016, Salvenach merged with Courlevon , Jeuss and Lurtigen with the Murten community .

Residents

Although it is located directly on the French language border, 97.2% of the population are German as their mother tongue. 95.1% Protestant and 3.2% are Roman Catholic.

traffic

Salvenach is on the post bus line from Murten to Gurmels and Düdingen .

history

The name of the place is historically documented for the first time in 993 as Silvaniacus , 1340 as Suaniez , 1389 as Savagny and Savagnie (French speaking), 1809 as Salvagny , 1558 as Salffenach (German speaking), 1578 as Saluenach (Carte Techtermann), 1638 as Salfenacht , 1668 as Salvenach (Carte from the Weid).

As can be seen from the first traditional form, Salvenach must have already existed in Roman times , because the place name goes, like many names in German -ach or French. -y goes back to a Latin local name type on -iacum . With this component , manors were named after their first owner in Roman Gaul . In the case of Salvenach, the first owner would have been Silvanus . Salvenach thus obviously belonged to a whole series of goods that were planned to be laid out in the vicinity of the colony of Aventicum in order to supply them with agricultural products.

On March 21, 1448 the village burned down completely. Between 1555 and 1560 Salvenach was ravaged by 14 more fires. The first French-speaking school opened in 1679 and attendance was voluntary. On April 22, 1801, 15 houses burned down again. In 1923 the public water supply was built.

Attractions

The site is entered in the inventory of sites worth protecting in Switzerland (ISOS) as a site of national importance.

Old school Salvenach
New school house and municipal administration
village street
Historic farmhouses in the center of the village

Web links

Commons : Salvenach - collection of images, videos and audio files

Official website of the Salvenach community
Hans Herren: Salvenach. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .