Villarepos

State :

Switzerland

Canton :

Freiburg (FR)

District :

lake

Municipality :

Courtepin

Postal code :

1583

former BFS no. :

2279

Coordinates :

572.05 thousand / 192503 coordinates: 46 ° 52 '59 " N , 7 ° 4' 19" O ; CH1903: 572 050 / 192503

Height :

493 m above sea level M.

Area :

4.74 km²

Residents:

648 (December 31, 2016)

Population density :

137 inhabitants per km²

Website:

www.courtepin.ch

map

Parish before the merger on January 1, 2017

Villarepos ( Friborg Patois Velârèpou ^?^/^I ) was a municipality in the District du Lac (German: Seebezirk) in the canton of Friborg in Switzerland until December 31, 2016 . The former German name Ruppertswil is hardly used today. On January 1, 2017, Villarepos merged with the former municipalities of Barberêche and Wallenried to form the new municipality of Courtepin .

geography

Villarepos is 493 m above sea level. M. , six kilometers southwest of the district capital Murten and two and a half kilometers east of Avenches (as the crow flies). The village extends on a hill west of the Chandon , in the Molasse hills of the northern Freiburg Central Plateau .

The area of 4.7 square kilometers large municipal area comprises a portion of the glacial Rhonegletscher overmolded Molassehöhen between the Broyeebene in the northwest and the Saanen valley in the east. The area is traversed from southwest to northeast by the Chandon in an up to 300 m wide flat valley depression. To the west of the valley, the municipal area extends to the level of Villarepos and the Donatyre plateau. In the east, the municipality extends into the forest area of the Ausserholz (up to 545 m above sea level ), into the valley of the Ruisseau des Echelles and its southern side stream from the Creux-Maringou and onto the plateau of La Croix . In the south, the forest heights of Les Roseires ( 596 m above sea level, the highest point in the municipality) and Bois de Lavaux also belong to Villarepos. In 1997, 8% of the municipal area was accounted for by settlements, 32% for forests and woodlands and 60% for agriculture.

Villarepos includes the village of Chandossel ( 457 m above sea level ) in the Chandon valley, the hamlet of Plan ( 514 m above sea level ) on a promontory on the eastern slope of the valley and a few individual farms. Neighboring communities of Villarepos are Murten , Wallenried and Misery-Courtion in the canton of Friborg, Avenches and Faoug in the canton of Vaud and Clavaleyres in an exclave of the canton of Bern .

population

With 648 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2016), Villarepos was one of the small communities in the canton of Friborg. 78.4% of the residents are French-speaking, 19.4% German-speaking and 1.3% speak English (as of 2000). The population of Villarepos was 452 in 1900. Over the course of the 20th century, the population decreased by nearly 25% to 343 people by 1970. Only since 1980 (349 inhabitants) has there been significant population growth again.

economy

Until the second half of the 20th century, Villarepos was predominantly an agricultural village. Even today, have agriculture and livestock an important role in the employment structure of the population. Further jobs are available in local small businesses and in the service sector, including in a horticultural company. In the last few decades the village has also developed into a residential community. Many employed people are therefore commuters who mainly work in the Freiburg and Murten regions.

traffic

The municipality is located off the main thoroughfares, but is easily accessible from Avenches and Faoug . The closest connection to the A1 motorway (Bern-Lausanne) is around 4 km from Villarepos. The village is connected to the public transport network by the Transports publics Fribourgeois bus route from Freiburg to Domdidier .

history

The municipality of Villarepos was settled early on. Villarepos was on the eastern edge of the Roman city of Aventicum . The western boundary of the municipality runs for a short distance along the former ring wall of Aventicum. Individual remains of the aqueduct that led from Villarepos via Aventicum to Domdidier are still visible.

The first written mention of the place took place in 1332 under the names Villarrepo and Villarrepot . Later the names Villa repos (1336), Vilarrepo (1359), Villar Ripport , Villar Rippoz and Villareppoz (1396) and Villarippo (1418) appeared. In addition to Ruppertswil , the German versions Ruoperswyll , Rupertswyl and Rupperswyl have also survived. The place name goes back to the Germanic personal name Hrodbald in connection with the Latin word villa (village, hamlet).

In the Middle Ages , Villarepos was part of the Avenches reign. The village came under the rule of Freiburg through purchase in 1502 and was assigned to the area of the Old Landscape (Spitalpanner). From 1504, the lords of the Praroman ruled the village. After the collapse of the Ancien Régime (1798), Villarepos belonged to the then Friborg district of Avenches during the Helvetic period and from 1803 to the district of Friborg before it was incorporated into the lake district in 1848 with the new cantonal constitution. With effect from January 1, 1983, the previously independent municipality of Chandossel was incorporated into Villarepos.

Villarepos Church

Attractions

The present modern village church was built in 1971, while the bell tower was only added in 1985. The former Saint-Etienne church, consecrated in 1572, was demolished in 1984 despite popular opposition.

literature

Hermann Schöpfer: Les monuments d'art et d'histoire du Canton de Friborg, Tome IV: Le District du lac (I). Edited by the Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Bern 1989 (Art Monuments of Switzerland, Volume 81). ISBN 3-909158-21-8 . Pp. 256-274.

Web links

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

Official website of the municipality of Villarepos (French)
Marianne Rolle: Villarepos. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .