Clavaleyres

Clavaleyres is a municipality in the Bern-Mittelland administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.

Geography

It forms a German -speaking enclave in French-speaking area at the border between the cantons of Fribourg and Vaud. The municipality had 50 inhabitants in 2007; in 1880 the population was still 118 and has since always declined.

History

Finds of bronze rings are indicative of a settlement during the La Tène period. During the Roman era there was a farm that supplied the nearby city of Aventicum. In the Middle Ages Clavaleyres belonged to the Monastery of Munich Wiler. 1527 reached the village in the possession of Bern. From 1798 to 1807 it belonged to the canton of Fribourg, before it finally reached the canton of Bern. Several attempts to merge the church with Münchenwiler, another exclave of the canton of Bern in the immediate vicinity, failed due to the resistance of the inhabitants.

Pictures

Farmhouse in Clavaleyres

View of the village from the south

Upper Hubel

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