Domdidier

Place du château

Domdidier ( Freiburg Patois Dondedi? / I ) is a municipality in the district Broye the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland.

Geography

Domdidier is located on 443 m above sea level. M., 7 km north-east of Payerne ( straight line ). The village is located on the southern edge of the Broyeebene and on the adjacent gently sloping slopes, at the foot of the Grand Belmont, in the north-western Fribourg plateau.

The area of ​​9.0 km ² large municipality area includes a portion of the Broyeebene and the subsequent Molassehügellandes. The northern part of the municipality is occupied by the broad Broyeebene. The area extends over the canalized rivers Ruisseau de la Baume and Arbogne to beyond the Broye. To the south extends the municipality of ground above the gently sloping hillside, which is divided into various shaped by the glacial Rhône glacier hill, above the tree height Chany up in the vast forest of the Grand Belmont, on the 658 m above sea level. M. the highest point of Domdidier is achieved. This community part is drained by the Ruisseau de Coppet to Arbogne. From the municipality surface 1997 13 % came from settlements, 15 % of forest and shrubs, 71% to agriculture and slightly less than 1% was unproductive land.

To Domdidier include the hamlet Pra Gaud (500 m above sea level. M. ) in the valley of the Ruisseau de Coppet, Eissy (542 m above sea level. M. ) on a ridge at the Forest Hills Chany and Granges- Rothey (590 m above sea level. M. ) on a high plateau on the northern slope of the Grand Belmont as well as some individual farms. Neighboring communities of Domdidier are Léchelles, Russy, Dompierre and Saint- Aubin in the Canton of Fribourg and Missy, Avenches and Oleyres in the canton of Vaud.

Population

With 2884 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012) Domdidier belongs to the medium-sized municipalities in the canton of Fribourg. Of the 86.3 % inhabitants are French-speaking, German-speaking 5.8 % and 3.1 % speak Portuguese (as of 2000). The population of Domdidier amounted in 1850 to 743 inhabitants, 1900 to 847 inhabitants. During the 20th century the population began to rise slowly. Only since 1960 (1159 inhabitants), a rapid population growth was associated with a doubling of the population recorded within 40 years.

Economy

Domdidier was until the mid 20th century a predominantly coined by farming village. Even today, the farming and fruit growing, thanks to the fertile soils in the Broyeebene and livestock have a certain role in the occupational structure of the population.

More jobs are in small local manufacturing and services available. Since the 1960s, numerous companies have settled in Domdidier. A larger commercial and industrial zone was built in the Broyeebene north of the railway line. Today, companies in the electrical industry ( Wago Contact SA), the food industry, in construction, telecommunications, mechanical engineering and mechanical workshops are represented in the community. In recent decades, Domdidier has also developed into a residential community. Many workers are therefore commuters who work mainly in the regions of Payerne and Freiburg.

Traffic

The community is conveniently moderately well developed. It lies on the main road 1 from Bern via Payerne to Lausanne, which was very crowded before the opening of the motorway from Bern in western Switzerland. The nearest links to the A1 motorway (Lausanne -Bern ), which was opened in 1997 and crosses the northern part of the municipality, is located about 2.5 km from the center.

On August 25, 1876, the railway line from Murten to Payerne was taken with a station in Domdidier in operation. For the dispersion in public transport buses Transports Publics Fribourgeois that run from Domdidier to Port Alban ( partly to Gletterens ) and Freiburg care.

History

The territory of Domdidier was settled very early, which was confirmed by the findings of a Roman cemetery and foundations of a mausoleum dating from the 1st and 2nd centuries AD. At that time the Roman road from Aventicum led ( approximately 4 km north-east of present-day Domdidier ) to Octodurum ( Martigny ) or after Eburodunum ( Yverdon- les- Bains ) through the area.

The first written mention of the village was carried out in 1162 under the name Donno Desiderio. Later, the names Sanctus Desiderius ( 1228 ), Dundedier and Dognodiderio ( 1267 ) published. The name goes back to the Latinized Domnus Desiderius (Holy Desiderius / Didier ).

Since the Middle Ages Domdidier formed a rule, the first Count of Neuchâtel was under 1267 came into the sphere of influence of the Counts of Savoy to the Lords of Montagny and in 1405. The rule then Domdidier experienced numerous changes of ownership. Since the late 14th century the citizens of Domdidier were given certain freedoms, which were later replaced over and over again under the new dominions.

1478 reached the village by purchase under the suzerainty of Freiburg and the Bailiwick Montagny has been assigned. After the collapse of the ancien régime (1798 ) was one Domdidier during the Helvetic Republic until 1803 Avenches district, then the district Montagny and in 1831 the district Dompierre before it was incorporated in 1848 in the District Broye.

Attractions

The parish church of Saint -Didier took its present shape in the new construction in the years 1837-1842 in Domdidier there are two chapels. , The chapel of Notre -Dame de Compassion, which was built on the site of an early Christian church from the 5th or 6th century, and the chapel of Coppet. The Castle of Domdidier was built in 1527. It is a three-story facility with a pre-built stair tower, whose external form has barely changed since the time it was built.