Zumholz FR

FR is the abbreviation for the canton of Friborg in Switzerland and is used to avoid confusion with other entries of the name Zumholz .

Zumholz

State :

Switzerland

Canton :

Freiburg (FR)

District :

Scythe

Municipality :

Plaffeien

Postal code :

1719

former BFS no. :

2310

Coordinates :

588 792 / 178 089 coordinates: 46 ° 45 '14 " N , 7 ° 17' 31" O ; CH1903: five hundred and eighty-eight thousand seven hundred and ninety-two / one hundred seventy-eight thousand and eighty-nine

Height :

867 m above sea level M.

Area :

1.91 km²

Residents:

397 (December 31, 2015)

Population density :

208 inhabitants per km²

Website:

www.plaffeien.ch

Zumholz

map

Parish before the merger on January 1, 2017

Zumholz is a village in the municipality of Plaffeien. Until December 31, 2016, it formed an independent political municipality in the Sense district of the canton of Friborg in Switzerland . In the referendum on September 27, 2015, the voters of the municipalities of Zumholz, Oberschrot and Plaffeien voted for a merger of the three municipalities. On January 1, 2017, the municipalities merged to form the new municipality of Plaffeien.

geography

Zumholz lies at 867 m above sea level. M. , 13 kilometers southeast of the canton capital Friborg (beeline). The village extends on a ledge on the western slope of the upper Sense , in the hill country on the northern edge of the Freiburg Pre-Alps .

The area of the 1.9 km² municipal area comprises a section of the pre-alpine hilly landscape. The eastern border forms the broad and gravel- filled stream bed of the Sense, which is almost unobstructed and therefore leaves the river largely free. In the area of Zumholz, the Dütschbach (in parts the southern border of the area) and the Grabenbach flow into the Sense from the west . From the river, the parish extends west over the terrace of Zumholz to the Berghölzli , on which at 943 m above sea level. M. the highest elevation in the municipality is reached. In 1997, 10% of the municipal area was in settlements, 19% in forests and woodland, 69% in agriculture and a little more than 2% was unproductive land.

Zumholz includes the scattered settlement of Brand ( 825 m above sea level ) on the slope north of the Grabenbach and numerous individual farms. The neighboring communities of Zumholz are Plaffeien , Oberschrot , Brünisried and Alterswil in the canton of Friborg and Guggisberg in the canton of Bern .

population

With 397 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2015), Zumholz was one of the small communities in the canton of Friborg. 97.4% of the residents speak German, 1.3% French and 0.7% speak Italian (as of 2000). The population of Zumholz was 230 in 1900. After a peak in 1940 (303 inhabitants), the population decreased again by 20% until 1980 (240 inhabitants). Since then, there has been a significant increase in population combined with almost doubling the number of inhabitants within 20 years.

economy

Until the second half of the 20th century, Zumholz was a village dominated by agriculture . Even today, the dairy industry and cattle breeding have an important place in the income structure of the population. Further jobs are available in local small businesses and in the service sector. Wood construction and mechanical engineering companies are based in Zumholz. The Sonnegg dormitory for disabled people also serves as a course center. In the last few decades the village has developed into a residential community with the construction of numerous single-family houses in the Allmend district. Many workers are therefore commuters who mainly work in the Friborg and Bern regions.

traffic

The community is very well developed in terms of transport. It is located on the main road from Düdingen to Plaffeien . Zumholz is connected to the public transport network by the Transports publics Fribourgeois bus routes , which serve the routes from Freiburg via Tafers and Plaffeien to Schwarzsee and from Freiburg via Rechthalten to Plaffeien.

history

Zumholz has belonged to the Plaffeien rule since the Middle Ages ; ecclesiastically it was subordinate to the parish of Rechthalten and, as wood chips , formed one of the four parishes (shot) of Rechthalten. In 1445 the village came under the rule of Freiburg and was assigned to the old landscape (Burgpanner). After the collapse of the Ancien Régime (1798), Zumholz belonged to the Freiburg district during the Helvetic and the following period, from 1831 to the German district of Freiburg, before it was incorporated into the newly created Sense district in 1848 with the new cantonal constitution.

When the shot of the parish of Rechthalten was raised to independent parishes in 1831, Zumholz, which previously formed its own parish as wood pellets, was merged with Brünisried through an error. They wanted to eradicate this mistake in 1832 with the Zumholz declaration as a political community. Although the villagers would have preferred to remain part of the municipality of Brünisried, Zumholz was declared an independent municipality on May 6, 1833 by a resolution of the State Council.

In the course of the municipal mergers, which the canton of Friborg has sponsored since 2000, a merger of Zumholz with Brünisried was up for debate, which the population rejected by a large majority in a consultative vote in December 2002 . Zumholz does not have its own church. The Roman Catholic believers have belonged to the parish of Plaffeien since 1885, the Reformed to the parish of the Sense district until 1998 and to the parish of Weissenstein / Rechthalten since its division.

On January 1, 2017, Zumholz merged with the municipality of Oberschrot to form the new municipality of Plaffeien .

Attractions

Web links

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

Official website of the community of Zumholz
Eveline Seewer Bourgeois: Zumholz. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

Individual evidence

↑ Freiburg People's Calendar 1999, p. 157

[1] Freiburg People's Calendar 1999, p. 157