Villarbeney

State :

Switzerland

Canton :

Freiburg (FR)

District :

Gruyère

Municipality :

Botterens

Postal code :

1652

former BFS no. :

2156

Coordinates :

574 726 / 164 236 coordinates: 46 ° 37 '44 " N , 7 ° 6' 31" O ; CH1903: 574,726 / one hundred sixty-four thousand two hundred and thirty-six

Height :

733 m above sea level M.

Area :

2.16 km²

Residents:

130 (December 31, 2005)

Population density :

60 inhabitants per km²

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Parish before the merger on January 1, 2006

Villarbeney ( Friborg Patois Velârbènê ^?^/^I ) was until December 31, 2005 a municipality in the district of Gruyère in the canton of Friborg in Switzerland . The merger with Botterens to form the new municipality of Botterens took effect on January 1, 2006 .

geography

Villarbeney is 733 m above sea level. M. , four kilometers east-northeast of the district capital Bulle (as the crow flies). The village extends on a terrace above the eastern bank of the Lac de la Gruyère reservoir , in the Bulle basin in the Gruyère region on the northern edge of the Alps.

The area of the 2.2 km² large former municipal area (with lake part around 2.5 km²) comprised a section of the Bulle basin in the Friborg Alpine foothills . In the west, Villarbeney had a small part of the Lac de la Gruyère. From the relatively steep, wooded bank, the communal soil extended eastward over the terrace of Villarbeney and up the slope to Mont Bifé ( 1483 m above sea level ) and the partly rocky mountain ridge that tapered to the southwest. In 1997, 6% of the former municipal area was in settlements, 55% in forests and woodlands, 36% in agriculture and a little less than 3% was unproductive land.

A few individual farms belong to Villarbeney. Neighboring communities of Villarbeney were Botterens , Morlon , Villarvolard , Val-de-Charmey and Châtel-sur-Montsalvens .

population

With 130 inhabitants (at the end of 2005), Villarbeney was one of the smallest communities in the canton of Friborg. 92.4% of the residents are French-speaking, 5.7% German-speaking and 1.0% Italian-speaking (as of 2000). The population of Villarbeney was 77 in 1900. After a slight population increase up to 1920 (87 inhabitants) followed by 1970 a decrease to 57 inhabitants. Since then, there has been a significant increase in population combined with a doubling of the number of inhabitants within 20 years.

economy

Until the second half of the 20th century, Villarbeney was predominantly an agricultural village. Even today, livestock and dairy farming play an important role in the income structure of the population. Some other jobs are available in local small businesses and in the service sector. In the last few decades the village has also developed into a residential community. Many people in employment are therefore commuters who work in the Bulle and Freiburg regions.

traffic

The village has good transport connections. It is on the main road from Freiburg to Broc . Villarbeney is connected to the public transport network by the Transports publics Fribourgeois bus routes , which run from Freiburg to Jaun and from Bulle to Corbières .

history

The place was first mentioned in a document in 1210 under the name Vilar Benet . Later, the names Villarbene (in the 13th century), today's name Villarbeney (1325), later also Villarbegney (1492), Villar Benoit (1668) and Villars-Beney (1906) appeared.

Since the Middle Ages, Villarbeney was part of the Corbières dominion, which was sold to Freiburg by the Counts of Gruyères in 1553 . The village was then part of the Bailiwick of Corbières. After the collapse of the Ancien Régime (1798), Villarbeney belonged to the sub-prefecture of Corbières during the Helvetic period , which was elevated to the status of a district in 1803. In 1848 the village was incorporated with Corbières in the Gruyère district.

Villarbeney has been working closely with the neighboring municipality of Botteren for a long time. Therefore, the merger with Botterens was completed on January 1, 2006, whereby the new municipality continues to bear the name Botterens. The church also belongs to the parish of Botterens.

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