Cugy, Fribourg
Cugy ( Freiburg Patois Kudji? / I ) is a municipality in the canton of Fribourg Broyebezirk in Switzerland. On 1 January 2005, the previously independent community Vesin was incorporated into Cugy.
Geography
Cugy is 475 m above sea level. M., 3.5 km west of Payerne ( straight line ) in the Fribourg's exclave of Estavayer -le- Lac. The village extends slightly increased on the southwestern edge of the Broyeebene, at the foot of Molassehügellandes between Lake Neuchâtel and the Broyetal, in the northwestern Fribourg plateau.
The area of 9.9 km ² large municipality area includes a portion of the Molassehügellandes west of the Broye. The northern Cugy in the Petite Glane a small proportion of the Broyeebene. From here, the communal land extends southward in a slightly rolling hills with some wooded heights La Râpe ( 525 m above sea level. M. ), Aleri (559 m above sea level. M. ) and Bois des Invuardes ( 571 m above sea level. M. ) divided by tiny valleys, hollows and plateaus. To the southwest the municipal area extends over the valley of the village of Bach's Vesin up to the height of Les Vuarnes (600 m above sea level. M. ) and on the forest ridge of the Bois d' Aumont, on 651 m above sea level. M. the highest point of Cugy is achieved. From the municipality surface 1997 8 % were settlements, 19 % of forest and woody plants and 73% to agriculture.
To Cugy include the village Vesin (515 m above sea level. M. ), the hamlet Moulin de Glane ( 455 m above sea level. M. ) in the Broyeebene Petite Glane and Grange des Bois ( 525 m above sea level. M. ) on a plateau on the eastern edge of the Bois des Invuardes as well as some individual farms. Neighboring communities of Cugy are Fétigny, Ménières, Les Montets and Bussy in the Canton of Fribourg and Payerne in the canton of Vaud.
Population
With 1496 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012) Cugy belongs to the medium-sized municipalities in the canton of Fribourg. Of the 91.8 % inhabitants are French-speaking, German-speaking 3.1 % and 1.1 % speak Italian ( as of 2000). The population of Cugy amounted in 1900 to 997 inhabitants. During the 20th century, the population fluctuated always in the range 880-980 inhabitants. Only since 1980 (928 inhabitants) a significant population growth was recorded.
Economy
Cugy was until the second half of the 20th century, mainly coined by agriculture village. Even today, the agriculture, the cultivation of tobacco, as well as the dairy and livestock have an important place in the economic structure of the population. More jobs are in small local manufacturing and services available. In the church today operations of the construction industry, information technology and precision engineering workshops are represented. Cugy is since 1959 the seat of the Agri - Centre de la Broye (ACB), an agricultural cooperative of the lower Broyetals. From 1965 to 1975, there was also a dial factory. In recent decades, the village has developed into a residential community. Many workers are therefore commuters who work mainly in the regions of Payerne and Estavayer -le- Lac.
Traffic
The community is conveniently comparatively quite well developed. It lies on the old main road from Yverdon- les- Bains to Payerne. The nearest links to the A1 motorway (Lausanne -Bern ), which was opened in 2001 and crosses the north of the municipal territory, located approximately 3 km from the center. On 1 February 1877, the railway line from Yverdon to Payerne was taken with a station in Cugy in operation. For the dispersion in public transport a bus Transports Publics Fribourgeois, which operated from the hilly hinterland in the circular course of Estavayer -le- Lac provides.
History
The territory of Cugy was settled very early, as could be shown by finds of objects from the Roman period. The first documentary mention of the place was already in the year 968 under the name in villa Cuzziaco. Later, the names Cubizaca, Cubizasca ( 1079 ), Cuzei ( 1142 ), Cubizacha ( 1145 ), Cuzzie ( 1228 ), Cugie (1230 ), Cuzie ( 1233 ) and Cugiez ( 1254 ) published. The origin of the place name is not clear. Cugy probably goes back to the Latin epithet Cupidus; it could have its origin but also in the Celtic vocabulary.
The area around Cugy 968 came through a gift to the Bishop of Lausanne, who founded a parish here. Also the monastery Montheron had land in the municipal area, they ceded in 1230 to the monastery Hauterive. Since the 12th century Cugy was under the rule of a side branch of the lords of Estavayer, who took the name de Cuzei. The rule Cugy, which included the towns of Vesin, Granges -de -Vesin, Fétigny and Ménières, came in 1329 as a fief to the barons of Montagny and 1477 under the rule of Freiburg. This divided the village in 1536, after the Bernese had conquered the Vaud, the Bailiwick Estavayer to.
After the collapse of the ancien régime (1798 ) was one Cugy during the Helvetic Republic and the subsequent time to the district Estavayer and was incorporated in 1848 in the District Broye. As part of since 2000 sponsored by the Canton of Fribourg municipal mergers, the previously politically independent community Vesin was amalgamated with effect from 1 January 2005 Cugy. At the same time, a new coat of arms was introduced.
Attractions
The parish church of Cugy was built in the 16th century and remodeled in 1906-07 and enlarged. The village has two locks: La Cour ( courtyard) and Le Château ( castle ) from the 16th century, where the primary school is housed. In the village there is a number of characteristic farmhouses dating from the 17th to the 19th century.
Sons and daughters of the community
- Richard Chassot (born 1970 ), President of the Swiss Cycling Federation Swiss Cycling and former racing cyclist