Auboranges

Auboranges ( Freiburg Patois Ouborindze? / I ) is a municipality in the district of the canton of Fribourg Glane in Switzerland.

Geography

Auboranges situated 650 meters above sea level. M., 15 km southwest of the district town Romont and 10 km south of Moudon (air line). The scattered settlement municipality spreads along the western flank of the Broye, in the southwest of Fribourg Mittelland.

The area of ​​1.9 km ² large municipality area includes a portion of the headwaters of the Broye. The communal land stretches from the river over the Broye westward across the broad Talniederung here and on the adjacent Molassehöhe, on 719 m above sea level. M. at the hall La Montagne, the highest point of Auboranges is achieved. The western boundary runs along the Parimbot (left side of the creek Broye). In the north, the area extends into the forest Les Cotes. From the municipality surface 1997 8 % were settlements, 9% of forest and woody plants and 83 % to agriculture.

To Auboranges include several individual farms. Neighboring communities of Auboranges are Ecublens and Rue in the Canton of Fribourg and Oron, Essertes, Servion and Ferlens in the canton of Vaud.

Population

With 275 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012) Auboranges is one of the small communities of the Canton of Fribourg. Of the 94.4 % inhabitants are French-speaking, German-speaking 2.2 % and 1.1 % speak Czech (as of 2000). The population of Auboranges amounted in 1850 to 137 residents in 1900 to 151 inhabitants. After peaking around 1930 (193 inhabitants), the population increased by strong migration to 1970 by almost 40 % to 121 persons. Since then, a significant increase in population was recorded again.

Economy

Auboranges was until the second half of the 20th century, mainly coined by farming village. Even today, animal husbandry and dairying, and to a lesser extent agriculture an important place in the economic structure of the population. More jobs are in small local manufacturing and services available. In recent decades, the village has developed into a residential community. Many employed persons are therefore commuters who work in the regions Oron or Lausanne.

Traffic

The community is located off the major thoroughfares on a road from Oron- la- Ville Mézières. Auboranges has no connection to the public transport network.

History

The first written mention of the village was carried out in 1155 under the name Alburengens. Later the terms Conscious Arbor ( 1175 ), Alborengis ( 1190 ), Alborenges ( 1215), Arbor restri ( 1238 ), Alburenges, Auborenges ( 1273), Aulbrenges ( 1638), Auborange (1668 ) and Borenges (1762 ) published. The name goes back to the Burgundian personal names Albwar and means for the people of Albwar.

Auboranges belonged since the Middle Ages to the Counts of Savoy. The village came in 1317 through an exchange of the Abbey of Saint -Maurice, while in return Bulle went to the Savoy. 1536 Auboranges came under the rule of Freiburg and the Bailiwick Rue was assigned. After the collapse of the ancien régime (1798 ) belonged to the village during the Helvetic Republic and the subsequent time to the district Rue and was incorporated in 1848 in the District Glane. The village does not have its own church. It belonged to the parish before the Reformation Châtillens, since to that of Promasens.