Villarlod

Villarlod
State :	Switzerland
Canton :	Freiburg (FR)
District :	Saane
Municipality :	Gibloux
Postal code :	1695
former BFS no. :	XXXX
Coordinates :	568 154  /  172481 coordinates: 46 ° 42 '10 "  N , 7 ° 1' 20"  O ; CH1903:  568,154  /  172481
Height :	810  m above sea level M.
Residents:	259 (2002)
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Parish before the merger on January 1, 2003

Villarlod ( Friborg Patois Velâlou ^{? / I} ) is a town and formerly an independent political municipality in the District de la Sarine (German: Saanebezirk) in the canton of Friborg in Switzerland . On January 1, 2003, Villarlod merged with Estavayer-le-Gibloux , Rueyres-Saint-Laurent and Villarsel-le-Gibloux to form the new municipality of Le Glèbe . The village has been part of the Gibloux community since 2016 .

geography

Villarlod is 810  m above sea level. M. , 15 kilometers southwest of the canton capital Friborg (beeline). The farming village extends on a promontory on the northern slope of Mont Gibloux , above the valley cut of the Glèbe , in the Molasse hills of the Freiburg Central Plateau . The former municipality area was around 2.8 km². The area reached from the valley of the Glèbe southwards over the slope of Villarlod and the hill Croix du Saut ( 908  m above sea level ) to the headwaters of the Glèbe am Gibloux. The forest mountain on which at 1204  m above sea level. M. the highest point of the municipality of Le Glèbe is reached, forms a hollow open to the west, partly with pastures and partly with forest.

population

With 259 inhabitants (2002), Villarlod was one of the small communities in the canton of Friborg before the merger. Villarlod has a number of individual farms and holiday homes on the Gibloux slope.

economy

Until the second half of the 20th century, Villarlod was predominantly an agricultural village. Agriculture , dairy farming and cattle breeding still play an important role in the income structure of the population today . Further jobs are available in local small businesses and in the service sector, including in a construction company. Sandstone is mined in a quarry near Villarlod . 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. In good snow conditions you can ski on the northwest slope of the Gibloux; there is a ski lift here.

traffic

The village is located off the main thoroughfares on a connecting road from Villaz-Saint-Pierre to Vuisternens-en-Ogoz . Villarlod is connected to the public transport network by the Transports publics Fribourgeois bus route from Romont to Farvagny .

history

The first written mention of the place took place in 1227 under the name Vilaralort ; from 1231 the name Vilaraloz has been handed down. The place name is made up of the Latin word villa (country house, village) and the personal name Alold or Arlold .

In the Middle Ages , Villarlod belonged to the Pont dominion. Hauterive Abbey also owned land and had rights in the community. With Pont, the village came under the rule of Freiburg in 1483 and was assigned to the Vogtei Pont-Farvagny. After the collapse of the Ancien Régime (1798), Villarlod belonged to the Romont district during the Helvetic and from 1803 to the Farvagny district, before it was incorporated into the Saane district in 1848 with the new cantonal constitution.

As part of the community mergers promoted by the Canton of Friborg since 2000, the residents of Villarlod, Estavayer-le-Gibloux , Rueyres-Saint-Laurent and Villarsel-le-Gibloux decided to merge their communities in 2002. With effect from January 1, 2003, the merger of the villages to form the new municipality with the name Le Glèbe came into force.

Attractions

See also : List of cultural assets in Gibloux

The parish church of Saint-Michel was built in 1910 on the site of a chapel mentioned in 1645. Molasse sandstone from the quarry near Villarlod was used as building material. Also in 1910, Villarlod, which previously belonged to the parish of Estavayer-le-Gibloux, was raised to an independent parish.

Web links

• Marianne Rolle: Villarlod. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Official website of the municipality of Le Glèbe (French)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ molassedevillarlod.ch: Contact ( Memento of the original from February 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The  archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Accessed October 12, 2011