Fétigny, Switzerland

Fétigny

Fétigny ( Freiburg Patois Fethenyi? / I ) is a municipality in the district Broye the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland. The former German name Fetenach is no longer used today.

Geography

Fétigny is located on 458 m above sea level. M., 3 km southwest of Payerne ( straight line ) in the Fribourgese exclave Estavayer -le- Lac. The former street line village stretches along the western edge of the Broyetals, just before the opening of the valley to Broyeebene, in the northwestern Fribourg plateau.

The area of ​​4.1 km ² large municipality area includes a portion of the middle Broyetals. The eastern boundary runs along the straightened Broye. From here, the communal land extends westward across the flat alluvial plain ( 500 m wide) and is adjacent to the gravel terrace, which is about 20 m higher than the valley floor and divided by some to Broye towards leaking wells. With 510 m above sea level. M. is near to Cugy (FR) belonging to the hamlet of Grange des Bois reached the highest point of Fétigny. To the south, the area extends to the Ruisseau de Monteman, the village stream of Ménière's. From the municipality surface 1997 9 % came from settlements, 9% of forest and shrubs, 81 % to agriculture and slightly more than 1% was unproductive land.

To Fétigny include some individual farms. Neighboring communities of Fétigny are Cugy and Ménières in the Canton of Fribourg and Granges- près- Marnand, Trey and Payerne in the canton of Vaud.

Population

With 878 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012) Fétigny one of the smaller municipalities of the canton of Fribourg. Of the 97.3 % inhabitants are French-speaking, German-speaking 2.1 % and 0.3 % speak Portuguese (as of 2000). The population of Fétigny amounted in 1850 to 310 residents in 1900 to 390 inhabitants. During the 20th century, the population fluctuated in the range of 390-460 inhabitants. Only since 1990 (465 inhabitants) a significant population growth was recorded.

Economy

Fétigny was until the second half of the 20th century, mainly coined by farming village. Even today, agriculture (sugar ), fruit growing, the growing of tobacco and livestock have an important place in the economic structure of the population. By draining the floodplains of the Broye in several phases since 1924 valuable cultural land has been won. More jobs are in small local manufacturing and services available, including enterprises of the construction and transportation industries. The municipal area is the brick factory Payerne SA, founded in 1897 and decommissioned in 1967. In recent decades, Fétigny 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 located off the major thoroughfares on a link road from Payerne to Ménières. The nearest links to the A1 motorway (Lausanne -Bern ), is located 5 km from the center. By Postbus course, which runs from Payerne to Combremont -le- Petit, Fétigny is connected to the public transport network.

History

The territory of Fétigny was settled very early, which could be proven by the discovery of a tomb from the Bronze Age, from the remains of a Roman villa and a Burgundian cemetery. The first written mention of the village was carried out in 1142 under the name Festignei. Later, the names Fistignier, Fitigny and Fitignier ( 1380 ) published, Fetignie (1577 ) and Fettigny (1755 ). The place name is derived from the Gallo-Roman personal name Festinus.

Since the Middle Ages Fétigny belonged to the rule Cugy. By buying came in 1490 a part of the village to the hospital in Romont, which further sold his property in 1507 at Freiburg. After Bern 1536 had conquered the Vaud, was assigned Fétigny the Bailiwick Estavayer. After the collapse of the ancien régime (1798 ) belonged to the village during the Helvetic Republic and the subsequent time to the district Estavayer and in 1817 the district Surpierre before it was incorporated in 1848 in the District Broye.

Attractions

The present parish church of Fétigny was ordained in 1948. Since the 14th century the village possessed a house of God. Along the main street some stately farmhouses dating from the 17th to 19th centuries have been preserved.