Schmitten FR

FR is the abbreviation for the canton of Friborg in Switzerland and is used to avoid confusion with other entries of the name Schmitten .

Schmitten
State :	Switzerland
Canton :	Freiburg (FR)
District :	Scythe
BFS no. :	2305
Postal code :	3185
Coordinates :	585 509  /  189 398 coordinates: 46 ° 51 '20 "  N , 7 ° 14' 55"  O ; CH1903:  585 509  /  one hundred and eighty-nine thousand three hundred ninety-eight
Height :	647  m above sea level M.
Height range :	587–768 m above sea level M.
Area :	13.49  km²
Residents:	4035 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	299 inhabitants per km²
Website:	www.schmitten.ch
Schmitten
Location of the municipality

Schmitten is a municipality in the Sense district in the canton of Friborg in Switzerland . The community used to be called "Favarges" in French, which means "the forges / les forges". This name is no longer used today.

coat of arms

When Schmitten parted ways with Düdingen in 1922, the community chose the coat of arms of St. Eligius, patron saint of the blacksmiths, as the community coat of arms. Pliers, snakes and hammers are symbols for the name Schmitten, which refers to the blacksmith's shop . The red background could have been chosen as a reminder of the separation from Düdingen.

geography

Schmitten lies at 647  m above sea level. M. , 9 km northeast of the canton capital Friborg (linear distance). The village extends on a plateau slightly to the north east of the Dälihubel, in the hill country of the eastern Freiburg Central Plateau .

The area of ​​the 13.6 km² municipal area comprises a section of the Molasse hill country between the river valleys of the Saane and Sense , which was shaped by the Ice Age Rhone glacier . The eastern part of the municipality is traversed from south to north by the taverna , which over time has cut around 60 m into the sandstone plateau and formed a 200 to 300 m wide flat valley floor. To the east of this valley, the area extends to the plateau of Burg and Ettenberg ( 687  m above sea level ) and to the Lettiswilbach , a right tributary of the Taverna.

To the west of the taverna, the municipality encompasses a slightly undulating highland. It extends from the headwaters of the Richterwilbachs (tributary of Sarine) south on the heights of Dälihubel ( 707  m above sea level. M. ) and Oberholz ( 701  m above sea level. M. ) in the wide valley of Hallbergmoos and Lanthenmoos . To the south of this are the forest hills Lanthenholz ( 741  m above sea level ) and Wilerholz , on which 767  m above sea level. M. the highest point of Schmitten is reached. The Fragnièremoos (or Franislismoos ) south of Ried is also part of Schmitten. In 1997, 12% of the municipal area was in settlements, 14% in forests and woodlands, 73% in agriculture and a little less than 1% was unproductive land.

In addition to the actual village, Schmitten also includes numerous hamlets, farm settlements and individual farms. The most important of these are:

• Mülital, 590  m above sea level M. , at the mouth of the Mülibach in the taverna
• Zirkels, 603  m above sea level M. , in the valley of the taverna
• Bunziwil, 630  m above sea level M. , on the eastern slope of the taverna
• Castle, 658  m above sea level M. , on the plateau east of the Taverna, the part of the hamlet east of the Dorfstrasse belongs to the neighboring municipality of St. Antoni
• Lanthen, 650  m above sea level M. , on the edge of the Lanthenmoos hollow, south of Schmitten
• Mountain, 653  m above sea level M. , in the hollow between Oberholz and Dälihubel, on the edge of the mountain moss
• Fillistorf, 630  m above sea level M. , on the northern slope of the Hubel
• Ried, 669  m above sea level M. , on the northern edge of the Fragnièremooses and on the slope of the Oberholz
• Below Tützenberg, 676  m above sea level. M. , on a terrace above the Tavernatal, on the eastern slope of the Wilerholz
• Ober Tützenberg, 718  m above sea level M. , at the height south of the Wilerholz

Neighboring communities of Schmitten are Wünnewil-Flamatt , St. Antoni , Tafers , Düdingen and Bösingen .

According to the 2000 census, the community of Schmitten is part of the Bern agglomeration .

population

Schoolhouses

With 4035 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2018) Schmitten is one of the medium-sized communities in the canton of Friborg. 92.0% of the residents are German-speaking, 2.2% French-speaking and 1.6% speak Albanian (as of 2000). The population of Schmitten was 1461 in 1930. Between 1960 (1694 inhabitants) and 2000 the number of inhabitants doubled.

politics

The Schmitten municipal council (executive) consists of nine members (3 SVP, 2 CVP, 2 SP, 2 ML-CSP). The mayor (head of the town council) has been Hubert Schafer since 2016.

economy

Up until the middle of the 20th century, Schmitten was a village dominated by agriculture . Valuable cultivated land was gained in the 19th and early 20th centuries through the amelioration of formerly swampy lowlands. In the past, peat was cut in Fragnièremoos. Even today, dairy farming , cattle breeding , arable farming and fruit growing have a certain status.

Numerous other jobs are available in local small businesses and in the service sector. Thanks to the good transport links, an extensive commercial and industrial estate developed near the station. Today Schmitten is home to companies in the construction and transport industry, wood construction, metal construction, mechanical engineering, the furniture industry, a large bookbindery and printing shop, a distribution center, mechanical workshops and cheese factories, as well as a flooring company. In the last few decades the village has also developed into a residential community. Many workers are therefore commuters who mainly work in the Friborg and Bern regions.

traffic

The community has good transport links. It is located near the old main road from Bern to Freiburg . The next connection to the A12 motorway (Bern-Vevey), which opened in 1973 in this section , is around 6 km from the town center. On July 2, 1860, the railway line from Bern to Düdingen (Balliswil) was put into operation with a train station in Schmitten and a stop at Fillistorf. The bus lines of Transports publics Fribourgeois , which operate the routes from Freiburg to Schmitten and from Schmitten to Schwarzenburg , ensure the fine distribution of public transport .

history

In the Middle Ages the village was called Schmitton , in the 14th century the name Zer Schmitten was common. Since the Schmitten chapel was consecrated to St. Otmar, the place was sometimes also called Othmarswil (first attested in 1379).

Schmitten was subordinate to the Counts of Thierstein in the Middle Ages and came under the rule of Freiburg in the 15th century, where it was assigned to the Old Landscape (Aupanner). After the collapse of the Ancien Régime (1798), Schmitten belonged to the Freiburg district during the Helvetic and the following period, and from 1831 to the German district of Freiburg, before it was incorporated into the newly created Sense district in 1848 with the new cantonal constitution.

Both ecclesiastically and politically, Schmitten has always been part of Düdingen . In the parish of Düdingen Schmitten formed two parish districts (so-called Schrote), namely Wiler and Lantenschrot. With the introduction of the liberal cantonal constitution in 1831, the four shot of the parish of Düdingen became independent communities, but this was reversed in 1832. The Wiler and Lantenschrot were now combined to form Schmittenschrot, which strove for church and political independence. Due to differences within the parish of Düdingen, Schmitten became its own parish in 1885.

This fact and the fact that Schmitten had a train station, which became the center of the regional area, ultimately led to efforts to become a politically independent municipality. After a consultative vote in Schmitten (95% of the population was in favor of an independent municipality) and against the will of the Düdingen municipal council, the Freiburg Great Council decided on November 21, 1922 to raise Schmitten to the status of a political municipality. Another change in the area took place in 1976 when the municipality of Wünnewil-Flamatt ceded a residential area of ​​29 hectares north of the train station to Schmitten.

Attractions

See also : List of cultural assets in Schmitten FR

Parish Church of St. Joseph

The parish church of St. Joseph was built from 1896 to 1898 in the neo-Romanesque style and is reminiscent of an early Christian basilica. There are several manor houses in the Schmitten area, including the Hohezelg Castle (1754), the Schlössli at Bahnhofstrasse 23 from 1742 and the Fillistorf country estate from 1860. The hamlets of Schmitten in particular have characteristic farmhouses from the 17th to 19th centuries. There are three chapels on the parish grounds: the mountain chapel above Berg on the Dälihubel, consecrated in 1921, the Mühletal chapel from 1912 on a hill between the Mülital and the Tavernatal, and the Marienkapelle in Ober Tützenberg, which was built in 1850 in Biedermeier style on the site of a previous building.

regional customs

Some old customs and traditions have been preserved in Schmitten.

• Corpus Christi procession.
• St. Nicholas in December: The Santiklous visits families with children on request.
• On May 1st, the children go from house to house in Maisingen .

Personalities

Erwin Jutzet (* 1951), Swiss politician , State Councilor of the Canton of Friborg

Web links

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

• Official website of the community of Schmitten
• Marianne Progin Corti: Schmitten (FR). In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Aerial view of the village

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Permanent and non-permanent resident population by year, canton, district, municipality, population type and gender (permanent resident population). In: bfs. admin.ch . Federal Statistical Office (FSO), August 31, 2019, accessed on December 22, 2019 . 
2. ^ Municipalities of the agglomeration of Bern. Federal Statistical Office, archived from the original on November 16, 2010 ; Retrieved August 7, 2009 .