Dompierre, Fribourg
Dompierre ( Freiburg Patois Donpyérou? / I ) is a municipality in the district Broye the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland.
Geography
Dompierre is situated at 470 m above sea level. Level, 5 km north-east of Payerne (air line). The scattered village covers an created by glacial Rhône glacier hill in the south of it lying landscape trough, on the southern edge of the Broyeebene, in the north-western Fribourg plateau.
The area of 4.5 km ² large municipality area includes a portion of the Broyeebene and the subsequent Molassehügellandes. The main part of the area lies in the flat Broyeebene (hall Terra Illes) and extends northward over the straightened Arbogne up to the channelized river Broye. To the south of the municipality of soil over the rise of Dompierre and the broad valley of the Ruisseau de la Baume extends to the lower slope portions of the Grand Belmont, where 510 m above sea level. M. the highest point of Dompierre is achieved. From the municipality surface 1997 9 % came from settlements, 1% of the forest and shrubs, 89 % to agriculture and slightly more than 1% was unproductive land.
At Dompierre include some individual farms. Neighboring communities of Dompierre are Domdidier and Russy in the Canton of Fribourg and Corcelles- près -Payerne and Missy in the canton of Vaud.
Population
With 911 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012) Dompierre one of the smaller municipalities in the canton of Fribourg. Of the 94.7 % inhabitants are French-speaking, German-speaking 2.4 % and 1.4 % speak Albanian (as of 2000). The population of Dompierre amounted in 1850 to 431 residents in 1900 to 544 inhabitants. During the 20th century, the population rose to 1950 slowly to 609 inhabitants. Thereafter, until 1970 due to strong migration, a decrease by more than 20 % to 485 persons observed. Since then, a significant population growth was recorded again.
Economy
Dompierre was until the mid-20th century, a predominantly coined by agriculture village. Even today, agriculture (sugar ), fruit growing and cultivation of tobacco, thanks to the fertile soils in the Broyeebene and livestock have an important place in the economic structure of the population. More jobs are available in the local retail and service sectors, including the transport and construction, in carpentry and a biscuit factory. In recent decades, Dompierre 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 opened in 1997, is located about 5 km from the center. On August 25, 1876, the railway line from Murten to Payerne was taken with a station in Dompierre in operation. The BLS uses the station only by means of a Regios, which oscillates between Payerne and Murten ( -Bern ) back and forth.
History
The first documentary mention of the place was already in the year 587, when the bishop of Lausanne, left the Monastery of Payerne land in Dompierre. Later, the names Dommun Petri ( 961 ) published, Donperre ( 1137 ), Domnus Peter ( 1180), Dunpero (1200) and Donperro ( 1228 ). For a long time was called the church also Dompierre- près -Payerne and Dompierre- le -Petit (this in contrast to Dompierre -le- Grand, today Carignan hamlet on the north side of Broyeebene ). The place name is derived from Domnus Peter ( Saint Peter ).
Since the Middle Ages Dompierre formed its own little rule, which came in 1267 to the Lords of Montagny and 1405 in the area of influence of the House of Savoy. 1478 reached the village by purchase under the suzerainty of Freiburg and the Bailiwick Montagny has been assigned. After Bern 1536 had conquered the Vaud country, there were several disputes with Bern, which considered the monastic property of Payerne as his property.
After the collapse of the ancien régime (1798 ) was one of Dompierre during the Helvetic Republic until 1803 Avenches district, then the district Montagny and in 1831 to the newly created district Dompierre before it was incorporated in 1848 in the District Broye.
Attractions
The parish of Dompierre was probably erected in the 6th century by the then Bishop of Lausanne. The present parish church of Saint- Pierre -et -Paul goes in the core back to a house of worship in 1525, but was built in the years 1866-1869 almost from scratch. The two-storey palace was built in 1637, later changed several times, and was the seat of the prefecture of 1814 until 1848. Situated in the center some stately farmhouses dating from the 17th to 19th centuries have been preserved.