Bas-Vully

Praz (Vully ) with Lake Murten

Bas -Vully is a municipality in the lake district (French: District du Lac ) of the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland. Until 1977 the town was called officially Vully -le- Bas. The German name used in the region of the community are Niederwistenlach and Unterwistenlach.

Geography

Bas -Vully with the center Sugiez is located at 433 meters above sea level. M., 3.5 km north of the district town of Murten (air line). The village is located on the northern shore of Lake Murten, near the outflow of the Broye Canal, at the southeast foot of the Mont Vully, in the northern Fribourg plateau.

The area of ​​10.0 km ² large municipality area includes a portion of the northern Fribourg Mittelland in the Three Lakes Region. The area has a 2 km long lake shore line on Lake Murten Môtier between the west and the discharge of the Broye Canal in the east. From the lake shore, the community ground extends north across a 300 m wide flat shoreline strips of Mont Vully, at the top with 653 meters. M. the highest point of Bas -Vully is achieved. This consists of molasses mountain has in the comb area a plateau gradually descends towards the south before it falls with a steep slope to the lake of Murten out. Due to the erosive power of two streams, the plateau in the course of millions of years has been divided and created the valley systems of Vaux de Praz de Vaux and Nant. The north side of Mont Vully falls steeply with the wooded hillside La Roseire off to the Great Marsh level.

The northern part of the municipality includes the 432 m above sea level. M. Located intensively farmed level of the Great Marsh, which is drained by the Broye canal. To the east the municipal area along the Grand Canal and stretches as far as Biberekanals Bellechasse, while the northern border along the forest edge of the so-called national forest runs. From the municipality surface 1997 12 % came from settlements, 12% of forest and shrubs, 73% to agriculture and about 3% was unproductive land.

Bas -Vully consists of the municipalities merged on January 25, 1850:

• Sugiez, 433 m above sea level. M., at the eastern foot of Mont Vully and on both sides of the Broye Canal
• Nant consisting of Nant- lingerie ( 433 m above sea level. M. ) and Nant- Dessus (437 m above sea level. M. ), both between Murten and the foot of Mont Vully located at the outlet of the valley system of the Vaux de Nant
• Praz, 434 m above sea level. M., in the plain between the lake of Murten and the Vully, the output of the valley system of the Vaux de Praz

These three formerly independent communities have grown together into a long village street. Furthermore also Bellechasse (432 m above sea level. M. ) include the Great Marsh at Biberekanal and some individual farms to Bas- Vully. Neighboring towns of Bas -Vully are skin -Vully, Galmiz and an exclave of Murten in the canton of Fribourg and the ins and Müntschemier in the canton of Bern.

Population

With 2011 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012) Bas -Vully belongs to the medium-sized municipalities in the canton of Fribourg. Of the 58.6 % inhabitants are French-speaking, German-speaking and 30.4 % 3.2 % speak Portuguese (as of 2000). In recent years, the share of the German -speaking population has continuously increased (1990 only 23 % in German). The population of Bas -Vully amounted in 1850 to 1123 inhabitants, 1900 to 1044 inhabitants. After peaking in 1940 with 1,595 inhabitants, the population increased to 1980 due to strong migration by nearly 40 % to 1,004 persons. Since then, a significant population growth was recorded again.

Economy

Bas -Vully was until the second half of the 20th century, mainly coined by farming village. Even today, the farming, growing vegetables and fruit culture have an important place in the economic structure of the population. At the lower southern slopes of Mont Vully and in the two Erosionstälchen is thanks to the optimal exposure to sun a contiguous vineyard area ( mainly Chasselas grapes ). Some residents live on fishing.

More jobs are in small local manufacturing and services available. In the villages there are horticulture, carpentry, metalworking shops and wine stores. A larger commercial and industrial area since the 1980s east of the Broye Canal emerged. Here, companies, food processing, transportation and construction as well as the electrical industry have settled. In Bellechasse is the cantonal prison of Freiburg.

In recent decades, Bas -Vully has developed thanks to its attractive location and into a residential community. Many workers are therefore commuters who partially in the nearby area ( Murten, Kerzers ) work because of the good transport links but also in Neuchâtel and in the agglomeration of Bern.

Tourism

Bas -Vully also benefits from tourism, thanks to the mild and beautiful location and the possibility of water sports on Lake Murten. Sugiez has a large campsite on the discharge of the Broye from the lake. Some other cottages are located along the lake shore.

Traffic

The community is conveniently comparatively quite well developed. It is located on a link road from Salavaux along the north shore of Lake Murten to Sugiez. To the east of the Broye Canal Main road from Bern to Neuchatel. The nearest links to the A1 ( Bern -Lausanne ) is located about 5 km from the center. On May 1, 1903, the railway line from Murten was opened after ins with a railway station in Sugiez. By Postbus course, which runs from Sugiez after Lugnorre, the villages Sugiez, Nant and Praz are connected to the public transport network, but only Monday to Friday. Through the Passenger navigation on Lake Murten Praz and Sugiez own connection with the other Seeanstössergemeinden ( over the Broye Canal there is also a direct connection with the Neuchâtel ).

History

The municipal area of Bas -Vully was settled very early, which is confirmed by the discovery of remains of a Celtic settlement on Mont Vully. The first written mention of the village was carried out in 968 under the name Wisliacense. Later, the names Vuisliacense ( 985 ) Williex ( 1192 ), Willie ( 1228 ), Villiaco, Wistillacho ( 1266 ), Williey ( 1330), Vuillie ( 1334 ), Wuilliacum and Vuilliez ( 1453) appeared. The name Vully goes back to a Gallo-Roman settler named Vistilius. Bas -Vully was until 1831 the name commune générale des quatre villages de La Rivière. Besides Sugiez, Praz and Nant then there was also the village Chaumont (German Zöumet ), which was abandoned in 1859 after a landslide.

The villages Praz, Nant, Sugiez and Chaumont, on the north shore of Lake Murten Murten were designated by the feudal lord as La Rivière. In three documents of 1443 there is also the spelling Ripperia. This was more of an administrative unit meant as a community in the modern sense.

Since 1375 the villages of the church today Bas -Vully belonged to the reign of Murten. From 1484 they were under the joint management of the stands Bern and Fribourg Murten bailiwick. After the collapse of the ancien régime (1798 ) the villages came to the Canton of Fribourg and included during the Helvetic Republic and the subsequent time to the district Murten, before they were incorporated in 1848 with the new cantonal constitution in the lake district.

The final merger of Sugiez, Nant and Praz, who owned their own village administrations until 1798, but after certain tasks completed together, was on 25 January 1850. The municipality does not have its own church, it belongs since 1530 to the Reformed parish Môtier. During the First World War some fortifications were created in the sandstone of the Mont Vully. 2003 was a merger of the municipalities Bas -Vully and skin Vully to debate that but in rejecting the voters of Bas -Vully just failed (50 votes).

Attractions

Both Sugiez and Nant and Praz have characteristic wine and arable farm houses from the 17th to 19th centuries. Particularly noteworthy is a group of houses in Praz with the house Chervet (16th century) and the House Burnier (18th century) with a portal that is dated 1573. On a promontory above the Nant de Vaux the foundations of the Tour of Sarrasins, a fastening storm from the 12th or 13th century are visible.

Along the vineyards around 50 m above the lake level of Lake Murten leads a wine trail ( Sentier du Vully viticole ) with beautiful views to the wine villages of Bas -Vully and in clear weather to the Alps.

The well-known artist and metal sculptor Bernhard Luginbuhl has exhibited some of his most important and extensive works of art at the Hotel de la Gare in Sugiez. In addition, the " Bar des artistes " was designed in the same hotel from him and is a popular meeting place for the residents.