Gurmels

Gurmels (? French Cormondes; Freiburg Patois Kormondè / i ) is a municipality in the lake district (French: District du Lac ) of the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland. Through various municipal mergers today's large community Gurmels emerged, consisting of the actual village Gurmels and Kleingurmels, Monterschu, Guschelmuth, Cordast, Liebistorf and Wallenbuch.

Geography

Gurmels is located on 542 m above sea level. Level, 6 km southeast of the district town of Murten (air line). The scattered village extends along the southern edge of the broad Talniederung the Biberen, in a depression on either side of Cordastbaches, at the western foot of the large timber in the northern Fribourg plateau.

The area of 17.2 km ² large municipality area includes a portion of the over-molded by glacial Rhône glacier Molassehöhen between Lake Murten in the northwest and the Saanen valley in the southeast. The central part of the municipality is the up to 1 km wide through by the Biberen valley at Gurmels to the east by the large wood (604 m above sea level. M. ), in the south of the height at Monterschu and to the west by the ridge Lengi Zelg (up to 600 m ü. M. ) is limited. To the southeast of the municipal area extends over a shallow saddle up to the Schiffenensee near his dam. In the northwest the border is always in the range of Biberentals.

Southwest of Gurmels extends the communal land beyond what the ridge Lengi Zelg and the Bulliardholz ( 668 m above sea level. M. the highest point of Gurmels ) flanked valley of Cordastbaches up to the high plateau of Cordast with the headwaters of the Biberen and to the heights of Monterschuwaldes ( 667 m above sea level. M. ) and the Bouleywaldes (666 m above sea level. M. ).

To the northeast, the area along the Biberen enough down the valley, which is flanked to the south of Chapter Wald and already the canton of Bern belonging Röseliwald here in the north of Galmwald ( 588 m above sea level. M. ). As an exclave also the village belongs Wallenbuch on a plateau between the valleys of Biberen and Sarine to Gurmels. In the easternmost territory extends down over the steep wooded slope into the broad valley of the Sarine. From the municipality surface 1997 8 % were settlements, 20 % of forest and woody plants, 71 % in agriculture and somewhat less than 1% was unproductive land.

Gurmels consists of:

The village Gurmels, 542 m above sea level. M., 1540 inhabitants, with the hamlet of Dürr mountain ( 542 m above sea level. M. ) in the Valley of Biberen east to Gurmels then and the hamlet Monterschu ( 599 m above sea level. M. ) at the level between the Cordastbach and the Schiffenensee.
Cordast, 607 m above sea level. M., 780 inhabitants, on a plateau west of the Bulliardholzes.
Guschelmuth, 327 inhabitants, consisting of Grossguschelmuth ( 581 m above sea level. M. ) and Kleinguschelmuth ( 566 m above sea level. M. ), both on the right flank of the Biberen.
Liebistorf, 524 m above sea level. M., 642 inhabitants, in the southeast of the Biberental Galmwaldes.
Wall Paper, 532 m above sea level. M., 132 inhabitants, on a plateau between the Biberental and the Saanen valley.

In further includes several hamlets and numerous individual farms to Gurmels. Neighboring communities of Gurmels are Kleinbösingen, Duedingen, Barberêche, Courtepin, Wall Ried, Cressier, Jeuss, Ulmiz and any community associated region of the state forest Galm in the Canton of Fribourg and Laupen, Kriechenwil and Ferenbalm in the Canton of Bern.

Population

With 3927 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012) Gurmels belongs to the medium-sized municipalities in the canton of Fribourg. Of the residents 92.7 % are German, 4.1 % French-speaking, 1.2 % speak Italian, and 2% other languages (as of 2006). The population of Gurmels amounted in 1900 to 1655 inhabitants (including all now turned my deterministic towns). During the 20th century, the population grew slowly but steadily until 1970 (1981 inhabitants). Since then, a significantly increased population growth was recorded, especially during the 1990s.

Economy

Gurmels was until the mid-20th century, a predominantly coined by agriculture village. Even today, the farming, fruit growing and dairy farming and livestock have an important place in the economic structure of the population. Many other jobs are in the local retail industry and the services available. In Gurmels and its neighboring communities today among builders, computer science, of metal construction, precision engineering and carpentry and metalworking shops are represented. Gurmels is the location of the nursing home hospice of Saint Peter. In recent decades, the village has developed into a residential community. Many workers are therefore commuters who work mainly in the regions of Fribourg, Murten and Bern.

Traffic

The community is conveniently comparatively quite well developed. It lies on the road from Murten to Duedingen. The nearest links to the A1 ( Bern -Lausanne ) and the A12 ( Bern- Vevey) are located approximately 7 km from the center of Gurmels. By Postbus courses on the lines from Murten to Courtepin and Kerzers after Duedingen, Gurmels is connected to the public transport network.

History

The territory of Gurmels was settled very early. Individual traces of human presence in the Neolithic period were discovered in Biberental. Even during the Roman period as well as the Burgundian period, the area was inhabited, which could be detected by a burial ground near Duerrenberg.

The first mention of Gurmels was in 1186 under the name Cormulnes. Later, the names Cormunt ( 1228 ), Cormugnes ( 1242 ) and Curmmonnes (1363 ) published. The German versions are handed down from 1240 ( Gurmols ), 1246 ( Gurmurs ) and 1250 ( Gurmels ). The place name comes from the Latin word curtis ( courtyard) and the Germanic personal name Mundo and accordingly is the courtyard of the Mundo.

Since the Middle Ages Gurmels was owned by the Counts of Thierstein. 1442 the village came by purchase under the rule of Freiburg and then became part of the Old Landscape ( Spitalpanner ). Gurmels 1525 and 1605 ravaged by severe fires. After the collapse of the ancien régime (1798 ) was one Gurmels during the Helvetic Republic, first as district Murten, from 1803 to the district of Freiburg and from 1831 to the German district of Freiburg, before it was incorporated in 1848 with the new cantonal constitution in the lake district.

Municipal mergers

The first municipality merger was completed on January 1, 1978, when the hamlet Monterschu was merged with the main village at that time Gross Gurmels mentioned, with the new community Gurmels called henceforth. As part of since 2000 sponsored by the Canton of Fribourg municipal mergers it came right at the beginning on 1 January 2000 a further merger, was incorporated as Kleingurmels.

At the community meetings on 28 June 2002 also Guschelmuth and the Canton Fribourg exclave Wallenbuch clearly and Liebistorf decide relatively scarce for incorporation to Gurmels. The merger became effective on 1 January 2003. Effective 1 January 2005 also joined the former church to the new church Cordast Gurmels. This was done retrospectively, as far as the proposed merger time of a procedure before the cantonal administrative court was still pending.

Attractions

In Gurmels is the parish church of St. German, the mentioned 1228, but was probably founded in the 9th or 10th century. The present building dates from different eras: the choir and the lower part of the tower in the late Gothic style from 1605, the neo-Gothic three-aisled nave of 1900 In the district Duerrenberg St. Mary's Church is occupied since 1339. . She was at times an important pilgrimage destination. In Gurmels as well as in the neighboring villages and some characteristic farmhouses from the 17th to 19th centuries have been preserved.

Interior of Church of St German

Side altar of the church of St. German

Swiss Plateau A12 motorway (Switzerland) Bas-Vully Courlevon Meyriez Courtaman Municipalities of the canton of Fribourg

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