Tafers

Tafers

State :	Switzerland Switzerland
Canton :	Canton of Friborg Freiburg (FR)
District :	Scythew
BFS no. :	2306i1 f3 f4
Postal code :	1712
UN / LOCODE :	CH TAF
Coordinates :	582 996 / 184 896 coordinates: 46 ° 48 '54 " N , 7 ° 12' 57" O ; CH1903: five hundred eighty-two thousand nine hundred and ninety-six / 18489646.814999 7.215835 651
Height :	651 m above sea level M.
Height range :	547–781 m above sea level M.
Area :	8.42 km²
Residents:	3450 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	410 inhabitants per km²
Website:	www.tafers.ch
Schoolhouse of Tafers
Location of the municipality
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Tafers ( French Tavel; senslerdeutsch Taafersch; Freiburg Patois Tavi ^?^/^I ) is a municipality and the capital of Sensebezirks in the Swiss canton of Friborg .

geography

Aerial photo (1964)

The highest point is at 783 meters on the Brunnenbergrain, the lowest point is at 564 meters in the Galtera area. The forested hill Maggenberg, where the castle Unter-Maggenberg used to stand (built around the middle of the 12th century and abandoned in the middle of the 14th century), dominates the village center from the south. Tafers is considered a suburb of the city of Freiburg and is centrally located. The village is a scattered settlement community in the central Sense district at the intersection of important roads and is about 7 kilometers from the center of the city of Freiburg. The community borders with the Klein-Schönberg district to the west on the city of Freiburg, to the south along the Galterngraben and the Galtera (Galternbach) on St. Ursen and Alterswil , to the east on St. Antoni along the Taverna (Tafersbach). Northern neighboring communities are Schmitten and Düdingen .

history

Roman Catholic Church

Tafers is first mentioned around 1150 as Tabernae (Jacc 453), between 1178 and 1189 as de Tabemis (Cart Hautcrêt, MDR XII 195), 1228 as Tavels (FRB II 92), 1433 as Tavers (RD VIII 39). The place name probably goes back to the late Latin tǎbellu , which meant "table, tavern " (cf. Latin taberna "inn"). Tafers is thus a Romanesque foundation, the location of a hostel. The Alemanni have the place name around the 8th / 9th. Century taken over from the novels present here and Germanized.

The church, possibly a Franconian foundation, developed into the center of an extensive parish that reached as far as the Saane, encompassed more than half of today's Sense district and belonged to the old landscape. The Mattenquartier of the city of Freiburg separated from it in the 16th century , the parishes of Alterswil and St. Antoni in 1885/94 and the parish of St. Ursen in 1901 . In 1848, with the new cantonal constitution, Tafers was incorporated into the then newly created Sense district.

The parish of Tafers was divided into the four independent parishes of Tafers (formerly called Bodenschrot), Alterswil (Juchschrot), St. Antoni (Schrickschrot) and Enet-dem-Bach-Schrot (St. Ursen) in 1831/32. From 1999 the Reformed residents belong to the Evangelical Reformed parish of St. Antoni .

In 1903 a stone meteorite weighing 28.9 grams fell near the site and was classified as type L5. According to its exact location near Menziswil, it was registered under the official name of Menziswyl.

coat of arms

A soldier clad in red and blue and black with a silver halftone . This coat of arms, known since the 18th century, is heraldically stylized on the Freiburg Landsknecht costume of the 16th century. The halberdier is also known as the "sensler boy". The coat of arms of the main town was also adopted from the Sense District.

Central function

Tafers District Hospital

The village, which has been the district capital since 1848, has developed into a subregional center with a significant number of jobs since the 1960s. Tafers is the seat of the Higher Office and the District Court of Sense, and the community also houses the Sensler Museum , which opened in 1975 , the HFR Tafers Hospital , the medical nursing home and various social institutions. Tafers is also one of the locations of the Orientation School (OS) in the Sense District.

population

The population of Tafers has grown from 964 in 1900 to 3450 (as of December 31, 2018) since the beginning of the 20th century. This regular growth is comparable to the development in the other larger municipalities in the district.

politics

The executive branch - the local council - consists of nine popular representatives. The most widespread political groups in Tafers are: CSP , CVP , SVP and SP . The commissions support the municipal council in its decision-making. The municipal administration has its seat in the office building, which was inaugurated in 1991, where the cantonal authorities are also located.

economy

Tafers is a popular business location due to its traffic location , favorable tax rate and other advantages, such as the range of services, labor, schools and infrastructure. Many companies took advantage of these location advantages and settled in Tafers. There are numerous companies in the municipality, active in the primary, secondary and tertiary sectors, with around 1,420 jobs. Bigger employers are for example: Element AG or the Freiburger Spital, based in Tafers. The Tafers trade association is also a partner in economic matters.

traffic

The village of Tafers is located at the crossroads of two canton roads that cross the Sense district , the connection between Freiburg and Schwarzenburg on the one hand and Düdingen and Plaffeien on the other. The motorway connection to the A12 is only around 5 minutes by car from the center, as is the railway connection if you drive. Tafers does not have its own train station. A bus that runs at irregular intervals connects Tafers with Freiburg and the surrounding area.

Special buildings

Jacob's Chapel

The village image is characterized by various sacred and some secular buildings from the 17th and 18th centuries to around 1900.

The Roman Catholic Church of St. Martin is a building from the years 1786–89, with a polygonal bell tower from the 16th century. Various valuable art historical objects can be seen inside.
In the cemetery area are the Michael and Jacob chapels, the latter adorned with paintings depicting the «gallows miracle» of Saint Jacob.
On the village square in front of the church, the former Sigristenhaus, built in 1780, sets an accent, a wooden house typical of the region's construction, which initially served as a school house and in which the Sensler Museum has been established since 1975 .
The St. Martin inn also dates from the 18th century, while the "castle" built for the Oberamt dates from the middle of the 19th century.
On the edge of the village center, the Taverna inn, which was actually built as a train station, and the primary school building, both built around 1900, can be seen.
The newer buildings that Tafers had to function as a center (office building, OS school, hospital, nursing home, workshop for the disabled) are all outside the center of the village and have therefore not changed the typical appearance of the village.

In addition to the village center, the municipality includes several individual farms and hamlets - including the rural hamlet of Rohr and the mansions of Menziswil, Maggenberg and Brunnenberg - as well as a suburban quarter with Klein-Schönberg. With the Galterngraben and the steep southern slope of the Brunnenbergrain, Tafers also has important nature reserves.

nature and landscape

A networking project with neighboring communities is being used to upgrade the agricultural beauties and at the same time ensure that they are preserved. Due to the steadily growing population, development issues in the supply and disposal sector are also resolved with far-sighted policies. The relevant infrastructures are well developed. Tafers also strives for a careful use of existing energy resources. The entire agricultural zone of Tafers is integrated in the “Landscape & Agriculture” network project, in which the communities of Tafers, Düdingen and Schmitten are now involved with around fifty farms.

Personalities

Urs Kolly (* 1968) athlete
Thomas Rauber (* 1966) entrepreneur and politician (CVP).
Christian Schmutz (* 1970), journalist, writer and dialectologist
Urs Schwaller (* 1952), politician, Council of States, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Swiss Post
Franziskus Maria vom Kreuze Jordan (1848–1918), German Catholic priest, founder of the Salvatorian religious order, died in Tafers

Web links

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

Official website of the municipality of Tafers
Peter F. Kopp: Tafers. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

Individual evidence

↑ 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 .
↑ Lexicon of Swiss municipality names . Edited by the Center de Dialectologie at the University of Neuchâtel under the direction of Andres Kristol. Frauenfeld / Lausanne 2005, ISBN 3-7193-1308-5 , p. 863.
↑ Menziswyl. Meteoritical Bulletin, accessed June 30, 2020 .
^ François Guex: The parish church of St. Martin in Tafers and its chapels (= Swiss Art Guide, No. 944, series 95). Edited by the Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Bern 2014, ISBN 978-3-03797-125-3 .

[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] Lexicon of Swiss municipality names . Edited by the Center de Dialectologie at the University of Neuchâtel under the direction of Andres Kristol. Frauenfeld / Lausanne 2005, ISBN 3-7193-1308-5 , p. 863.

[3] Menziswyl. Meteoritical Bulletin, accessed June 30, 2020 .

[4] François Guex: The parish church of St. Martin in Tafers and its chapels (= Swiss Art Guide, No. 944, series 95). Edited by the Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Bern 2014, ISBN 978-3-03797-125-3 .