Villars-sous-Mont

State :

Switzerland

Canton :

Freiburg (FR)

District :

Gruyère

Municipality :

Bas-Intyamon

Postal code :

1666

former BFS no. :

XXXX

Coordinates :

571463 / 153 628 coordinates: 46 ° 32 '0 " N , 7 ° 4' 0" O ; CH1903: 571463 / one hundred and fifty-three thousand six hundred twenty-eight

Height :

758 m above sea level M.

Residents:

219 (2002)

map

Parish before the merger on January 1, 2004

Villars-sous-Mont ( Freiburg Patois Velâchemon ^?^/^I ) is a village and formerly independent municipality in the district Greyerz the canton of Friborg in Switzerland . On January 1, 2004, Villars-sous-Mont merged with Enney and Estavannens to form the new municipality of Bas-Intyamon . The former German name Wiler am Berg is no longer used today.

geography

Aerial photo (1964)

Villars-sous-Mont is located at 758 m above sea level. M. , nine kilometers south of the district capital Bulle (linear distance ). The clustered village extends slightly higher on the western edge of the Saan Valley , near the mouth of the Ruisseau des Praz stream in the Saane (French: Sarine). Villars-sous-Mont is located in Haute-Gruyère, east of the Moléson massif , at the foot of the Vanil Blanc . The former municipality area was around 3.8 km². The area reached from the Saane westward up the densely wooded steep slope and included the catchment area of the Ruisseau des Praz , surrounded by Vanil Blanc ( 1573 m above sea level ) and La Vudalla ( 1670 m above sea level ) in the north and Entre Deux Dents ( 1619 m above sea level ) in the south.

population

With 219 inhabitants (2002), Villars-sous-Mont was one of the small communities in the canton of Friborg before the merger.

economy

For a long time, Villars-sous-Mont was primarily an agricultural village. The animal husbandry and the dairy industry (for cheese production) have today an important place in the economic structure of the population. There are also some jobs in local small businesses and in the service sector, including in a furniture factory. Several gravel pits are being exploited in the Saane Valley. Villars-sous-Mont has been the location of the retirement and nursing home for all the villages of Haute-Gruyère since 1990. In the last few decades the village has also developed into a residential community. Some workers are therefore commuters who work mainly in the Bulle region.

traffic

The village has good transport connections. It is on the main road from Bulle to Château-d'Oex . On July 23, 1903, the railway line from Bulle to Montbovon with the Grandvillard stop northeast of Villars-sous-Mont was put into operation.

history

The first written mention of the place took place in 1235 under the name Vilare sis Mont . The names Vilarsimont (1269), Villar Symon (1335), Vilarsymont (1359), Villardsymont (1514), Villarsimont (1555) and Villar sur Mont (1668) appeared later .

Villars-sous-Mont has been part of the county of Gruyères since the Middle Ages . After the last Count of Gruyères went bankrupt in 1554, the village came under the rule of Freiburg in 1555 and was assigned to the Vogtei of Gruyères. After the collapse of the Ancien Régime (1798), Villars-sous-Mont first belonged to the prefecture and from 1848 to the Gruyères district.

On June 5, 2003, the voters of Villars-sous-Mont, Enney and Estavannens voted with a yes majority of over 90% for the merger of the municipalities. With effect from January 1, 2004, the new Bas-Intyamon community was created.

Attractions

Villars-sous-Mont, which formerly belonged to the parish of Gruyères, has been its own parish since 1786. The parish church dates from 1654 and was expanded from 1808 to 1810. Some typical farmhouses from the 17th to 19th centuries have been preserved in the village. Several of the historic buildings were badly damaged in a major fire on January 16, 2017.

Web links

Marianne Rolle: Villars-sous-Mont. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Aerial views of the village