Senèdes

Senèdes
State :	Switzerland
Canton :	Freiburg (FR)
District :	Saane
BFS no. :	2225
Postal code :	1724
Coordinates :	577 347  /  176 793 coordinates: 46 ° 44 '31 "  N , 7 ° 8' 32"  O ; CH1903:  577 347  /  176,793
Height :	748  m above sea level M.
Height range :	724–824 m above sea level M.
Area :	0.51  km²
Residents:	160 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	314 inhabitants per km²
Website:	www.communesenedes.ch
Location of the municipality

Senèdes ( Freiburger Patois Chenéde ^{? / I} ) is a municipality in the Saane district of the canton of Friborg in Switzerland .

geography

Senèdes is 748  m above sea level. M. , 7 km south of the canton capital Friborg (beeline). The farming village extends on the southern slope of the Bois d'Amont above the Senèdes valley, in the pre-alpine hill zone of the Freiburg Central Plateau .

The area of ​​the municipality, which is just 0.5 km² in size, comprises a section of the pre-alpine hilly landscape east of the Saanegraben . The community soil extends from the valley basin of the village stream northwards over the slope of Senèdes to the height west of the Bois d'Amont , where at 820  m above sea level. M. the highest point of the municipality is reached. In 1997, 16% of the municipal area was accounted for by settlements, 10% for forests and woodlands and 74% for agriculture.

Several individual farms belong to Senèdes. Neighboring municipalities to Senèdes are Ependes , Ferpicloz , Le Mouret , Treyvaux and Arconciel .

population

With 160 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2018), Senèdes is one of the smallest communities in the canton of Friborg. 94.5% of the residents are French-speaking, 4.6% German-speaking and 0.9% speak Italian (as of 2000). The population of Senèdes was 102 in 1900. In the course of the 20th century, the population decreased by around 45% to 56 people due to strong emigration by 1960. Since then there has been a significant increase in population combined with a doubling of the number of inhabitants within 40 years.

economy

Until the second half of the 20th century, Senèdes was a predominantly agricultural village. Even today, dairy farming and cattle breeding and, to a lesser extent, arable farming play an important role in the income structure of the population. Further jobs are available in local small businesses and in the service sector, including in wood processing companies. In the last few decades the village has also developed into a residential community. Many workers are therefore commuters who mainly work in the Freiburg region.

traffic

The community is located off the main thoroughfares on a connecting road from Treyvaux to Arconciel . Senèdes is connected to the public transport network by a bus from the Transports publics Fribourgeois , which runs from Freiburg to Treyvaux.

history

The place was first mentioned in a document in 1233 under the name Senaide . Later the names Senaidi (1251), Senayde (1274), Synaide (1443), Synaidy (1449), Sinayde (1501) and Sinedi (1644) appeared. The etymology of the place name is not clear. Senèdes is probably composed of the prefix sen- (old) and the Germanic word heida (heather).

Senèdes has been under the rule of Arconciel since the Middle Ages . In 1484 at the latest, the village came under the rule of Freiburg and was assigned to the Old Landscape (Burgpanner). After the collapse of the Ancien Régime (1798), Senèdes belonged to the La Roche district during the Helvetic Republic and from 1803 to the Friborg district before it was incorporated into the Saane district in 1848 with the new cantonal constitution.

Attractions

Web links

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

• Marianne Rolle / ASCH: Senèdes. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

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 .