St. Ursen

Sankt Ursen
State :	Switzerland
Canton :	Freiburg (FR)
District :	Scythe
BFS no. :	2304
Postal code :	1717
Coordinates :	583 391  /  exceed 182239 coordinates: 46 ° 47 '28 "  N , 7 ° 13' 16"  O ; CH1903:  five hundred and eighty-three thousand three hundred and ninety-one  /  exceed 182239
Height :	713  m above sea level M.
Height range :	547–890 m above sea level M.
Area :	15.72  km²
Residents:	1345 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	86 inhabitants per km²
Website:	www.stursen.ch
Location of the municipality

St. Ursus ( French Saint-Ours ; senslerdeutsch Santùrsche ; Freiburg Patois Chin t'Oua ^{? / I} is a) municipality in the Sense district of the canton of Friborg in Switzerland . Until 1848 Sankt Ursen was officially called Enet-dem-Bach-Schrot .

geography

Sankt Ursen is 713  m above sea level. M. , 5 km east-southeast of the canton capital Friborg (beeline). The scattered settlement community extends on a high plateau south of the Galtera , on the edge of the Schwandmoos (Moorniederung), in the pre-alpine hill country of the eastern Freiburg Central Plateau .

Old mill building on Galternbach

The area of ​​the community area of ​​15.7 km² covers a section of the hilly country at the foot of the Freiburg Alps. The area is bounded to the north and east by the course of the Galtera river. From the valley low of the Galternbach, the municipality extends southward into the hilly landscape, including Stöckholz ( 785  m above sea level ) and Hubel ( 803  m above sea level ), and reaches the Ramenholz east of the height of Rechthalten at 890  m above sea level M. the highest point of Sankt Ursen. South of this height, part of the Rotmoos nature reserve also belongs to the municipality.

The western part thereof is by the Fromattbach (in the underflow Tasbergbach called) for Galtera dewatered. Below the confluence of the Tasbergbach, the latter cuts deeper and deeper into the molasse layers and forms the Galterngraben , which is flanked by steep slopes up to 150 m high with sandstone cliffs. The Molasse plateau, which is bordered by the Galterngraben in the north and by the Tasbergbach in the east, culminates in the heights of Tannholz ( 718  m above sea level ), Brünisberg ( 753  m above sea level ) and Le Croquelet ( 767  m above sea level). ). In the far west, the municipality of Bourguillon borders on the outskirts of Freiburg. In 1997, 5% of the municipal area was in settlements, 18% in forests and woodlands, 76% in agriculture and a little less than 1% was unproductive land.

In addition to the actual village, Sankt Ursen consists of a number of hamlets and farm settlements. From west to east these are:

• Römerswil , 700  m above sea level M. , on the plateau south of the Galterngraben
• Brünisberg , 735  m above sea level M. , on the eastern slope of the meadow hill of the same name south of the Galterngraben
• Hattenberg, 656  m above sea level M. , on the plateau directly above the steep drop to Galterngraben
• Balterswil, 665  m above sea level M. , west of the Tasbergbach
• Christlisberg, 710  m above sea level M. , west of the valley of the Fromattbach
• Tasberg, 666  m above sea level M. , at the Tasbergbach
• Obertasberg, 690  m above sea level M. , on the hill between Tasbergbach and Schwandbach
• Engertswil, 691  m above sea level M. , on the plateau north of Sankt Ursen
• Etiwil, 764  m above sea level M. , south of the stick wood
• Strauss, 775  m above sea level M. , in a hollow east of the Hubel
• Wolperwil, 743  m above sea level M. , on a plateau south of the Galtera valley
• Mediwil , 740  m above sea level M. , south of the valley of the Galtera
• Baletswil
• Äschlenberg , 764  m above sea level M. , on a plateau south of the Galtera valley
• Geretach, 763  m above sea level M. , in the upper Galteratal

In addition, numerous individual farms belong to Sankt Ursen. Neighboring communities of Sankt Ursen are Tafers , Alterswil , Brünisried , Rechthalten , Tentlingen , Pierrafortscha and Freiburg .

population

With 1,345 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2018), Sankt Ursen is one of the medium-sized communities in the canton of Friborg. 89.9% of the residents are German-speaking, 8.9% French-speaking and 0.5% speak Portuguese (as of 2000). The population of Sankt Ursen was 982 in 1900. In the course of the 20th century, the population fluctuated between 1020 and 1140 people. Since 1980 (1003 inhabitants) a slight but steady population growth has been recorded.

economy

Up until the second half of the 20th century, Sankt Ursen was predominantly an agricultural village. Mills used to be operated on the Galtera and Tasbergbach. Even today, dairy farming and cattle breeding as well as arable farming have an important place in the income structure of the population. Further jobs are available in local small businesses and in the service sector. St. Ursen still has three cheese cooperatives today. Wood processing, construction, metal construction and electrical and energy industries are also represented in the community. There are several gravel and sand pits in the municipality. 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 very well developed in terms of transport. It is located on a connecting road from Tafers to Rechthalten . Sankt Ursen is connected to the public transport network by the Transports publics Fribourgeois bus line , which runs from Freiburg via Rechthalten to Plaffeien .

history

St. Ursus Chapel

The area of ​​today's Sankt Ursen has been part of the parish of Tafers since the Middle Ages and belonged to the old landscape of Freiburg (Burgpanner) from the 15th century . It was called Enet-dem-Bach-Schrot and referred to the area beyond the Galternbach as seen from Tafers. This consisted of numerous court settlements without any actual center. After the collapse of the Ancien Régime (1798), the area belonged to the Freiburg district during the Helvetic and the following period, from 1831 to the German district of Freiburg, before it was incorporated into the then newly created Sense district in 1848 with the new cantonal constitution.

It was not until 1831 that Enet-dem-Bach-Schrot became a separate political municipality and parish when it was separated from Tafers. The St. Ursus Chapel in the hamlet of Sankt Ursen, which was roughly in the middle of the new community, served as the parish church. In 1848 the community was renamed Sankt Ursen. As a result, the former hamlet developed together with the neighboring Engertswil to the center of the community.

Attractions

See also : List of cultural assets in St. Ursen

The St. Ursus Chapel was built around 1539 and was last extensively restored in 1988. It has a decorative interior painting from 1606. The new parish church of St. Urs was built in 1898 in the classicist style and enlarged from 1933–1934. The old town center of Sankt Ursen has various stately farmhouses from the 17th to 19th centuries.

The hamlets of the municipality are also characterized by characteristic farmhouses with wooden storehouses, chapels and mansions (summer residences of long-established Freiburg city families, including Von der Weid, Diesbach , Weck and Gottrau). Particularly noteworthy are the Hattenberg Castle, which was built in 1679, with the St. Anna Chapel; the hamlet of Römerswil with the Philippus chapel and a manor house that was built between 1689 and 1722; the castle in Balterswil; the Ulrichskapelle in Tasberg and the Heiligkreuzkapelle from 1768 in Christlisberg.

Personalities

• Jo Vonlanthen , racing car driver
• Rico Weber , artist († October 8, 2004)
• Hugo Fasel , former National Councilor

Web links

Commons : St. Ursen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of the municipality of Sankt Ursen
• Aerial photos of Sankt Ursen
• Peter F. Kopp: Sankt Ursen (FR). 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 .