Bösingen, Fribourg

Boesingen (French outdated Basens and Bésingue; Freiburg Patois Besin / i?) Is a municipality in the district of Sense in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland. From 1953 to 1962, the community was called officially United Boesingen.

Coat of arms

The upper half of the coat of arms shows a black horse's head on gold. On the lower half of a golden harrow and two scallops are shown in red. The crest is known since the 19th century, but the harrow and the two scallops were added later.

Geography

Boesingen is located at 550 m above sea level. M. on the northern edge of the Sense district, 11 km north-east of the capital of the canton of Fribourg (air line). The village is located on a ridge about 60 m above the valley of the Sarine, near the confluence of the Sense of Laupen, in the northeastern Fribourg plateau.

The area of ​​14.3 km ² large municipality area includes a portion of the east of the Saanetals lying Molassehügellandes, which was formed by glacial Rhône glacier. The municipal boundary of Boesingen is formed in the northwest of the Sarine river and north of the scythe. However, this area does not reach the confluence, because the district Bösingenfeldstrasse as a bridgehead still belongs to Laupen. Both rivers are channeled and straightened in this section.

South to the 0.5 to 1 km wide valley floor in most places a relatively gently sloping hillside adjoined, which merges into the high plateau of Boesingen. This plateau rises towards the south over the hills of Riederberg wood (606 m above sea level. M. ), Upper Mülibergholz ( 562 m above sea level. M. ) and Litzistorfhubel (603 m above sea level. M. ) terraced further and reaches on the Dornihubel with 656 m ü. M. the highest elevation of Boesingen. Cut into the Molasseplateau are the little valley of the Richterwilbachs and Noflenbachs. At the far south of the municipality extends to the valley floor at Schmitten station. From the municipality surface 1997 9 % came from settlements, 15 % of forest and shrubs, 75 % to agriculture and slightly less than 1% was unproductive land.

To Boesingen next to the main village are a number of hamlets, Hofsiedlungen and isolated farmsteads. The important of these are (from north to south):

• Thürlefeld, 500 m above sea level. M., a residential district in the Sensetal on the southern edge of Laupen
• Tuftera, 505 m above sea level. M., a former hamlet on the southern edge of the Sensetals
• Lower Boesingen, 507 m above sea level. M., increased slightly at the southern edge of the valley of the Sarine
• Noflen, 512 m above sea level. M., on the southern edge of the valley of the scythe and the Noflenbach
• Grenchen, 580 m above sea level. M., on the plateau south of the Sensetals
• Fendringen, 583 m above sea level. M., on the high plateau on the edge of the valley of the moss
• Uttewil, 625 m above sea level. M., on the high plateau north of Dornihubels
• Riederberg, 532 m above sea level. M., on Richterwilbach between the heights of the Upper Mülibergholzes and Riederberg wood
• Vogelshus, 549 m above sea level. M., on the plateau south of the Saanetals
• Litzistorf, 571 m above sea level. M., to the west of the valley of Richterwilbaches
• Richterwil, 586 m above sea level. M., in the valley of Richterwilbaches
• Friseneit, 596 m above sea level. M., in the valley of the Richterwilbaches south of Dornihubels

Neighboring communities of Boesingen are Wünnewil -Flamatt, Schmitten, Duedingen and Kleinbösingen to Freiburg floor and forming part of the Bernese area communities Kriechenwil and Neuenegg and the Laupen.

According to the census of 2000 belongs to the municipality Boesingen agglomeration of Bern.

Population

With 3346 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012) Boesingen belongs to the medium-sized municipalities in the canton of Fribourg. Of the residents 92.6 % are German, 1.7 % Italian-speaking and 1.4 % speak French (as of 2000). The population of Boesingen amounted 1850 to 1124 population, 1900 to 1438 inhabitants. During the 20th century, the population increased steadily until 1960 ( 2091 inhabitants) to continue before a decrease to 1729 persons was registered in the following decade. Since 1980 (1808 inhabitants) a significant population increase was recorded.

Economy

Boesingen was until the second half of the 20th century, a predominantly shaped by the agriculture community. In Lischera in the 18th and 19th century brick was operated. Even today, the dairy industry, animal husbandry and farming and fruit growing, especially in the southern part of the municipality an important place in the economic structure of the population.

Many other jobs are in the local retail industry and the services available. Boesingen has close economic links with neighboring Laupen. Since the 1970s, was built in the flood plain of the River Sarine a larger commercial and industrial area. Today in Boesingen various businesses in the construction industry as well as companies in the metal processing, precision engineering, information technology and the store building are located.

By 1970 Boesingen was made ​​up of numerous hamlets scattered settlement community. Only since the actual village Boesingen developed through the establishment of an extended living quarters for settlement center. Even with Tuftera and Thürlefeld on the border to Laupen created new housing estates. Many workers are commuters who work mainly in the regions of Bern and Fribourg.

Traffic

The community is conveniently technically quite well developed. It lies on the road from Duedingen to Laupen. The nearest links to the motorway A12 ( Bern- Vevey), which crosses the southern municipality, located about 5 km from the center. By Postbus course, which serves the route of Duedingen to Laupen Boesingen is connected to the public transport network. Due to the extreme south of the area, the SBB line Bern -Lausanne runs.

History

The territory of Boesingen was settled very early, which could be detected by the finds of graves from the Hallstatt period. During Roman times, was at the site of the present village church a major estate, which was probably inhabited from the 1st to the 4th century AD. Fragments of columns and painted ceilings represent parts in addition to numerous smaller objects the most important finds from this period dar. Also from the Burgundian period are grave finds.

Eventually, the hill of Boesingen was inhabited almost continuously since Roman times. To 935 donated by Queen Bertha and King Rudolf II of Burgundy Santa Syruskirche who later became an important pilgrimage site, but in 1890 was demolished and replaced by a cheese factory.

The first written mention of the village was carried out in 1228 under the French name Basens. Later, the names Balsingue lo grant ( 1264 ) and in the same year, the German version sing that over time gradually transformed into Boesingen published.

In the Middle Ages Boesingen belonged as a fief of the Counts of Thierstein. A part of the municipality was in the possession of the Lords of Fendringen and came in the 13th century to the monastery Magerau and to the Civil Hospital in Freiburg. No later than 1442, the village came by purchase under the rule of Freiburg and the Old Landscape ( Aupanner ) has been assigned.

1476 Battle of Murten, Boesingen presented a "Rice Company ( Compagnie ) " of 23 men equipped,

After the collapse of the ancien régime (1798 ) was one Boesingen during the Helvetic Republic and the subsequent time 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 sense newly created district.

To a significant area change occurred in 1977, when Boesingen the entire eastern portion of its municipal territory with an area of ​​4.65 km ² and the hamlets Staffel, Amtmerswil, Bagiwil, Balsingen and Blumisberg (at that time a total of around 600 inhabitants) ceded to Wünnewil -Flamatt.

Attractions

The parish church of St. James was built on the site of an earlier building dating from the 13th century from 1788 to 1795 in the style of the late Baroque. The single-nave church has a rectangular choir, the base of the bell tower with tufa blocks dating from the Middle Ages. The chapel, Holy Cross was built in 1836 and now houses the former interior demolished in 1890 Pilgrimage Church of Saint Syrus.

The old center of Boesingen belongs to the village of national importance. Here are characteristic farmhouses from the 17th to the 19th centuries as well as remarkable storage buildings from the period around 1700. Too, the hamlet in the southern municipality characterized by stately farmhouses of Fribourg country style. In Richterwil is a chapel.