Fräschels

Fräschels is a municipality in the lake district (French: District du Lac ) of the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland. The French name of the municipality is Frasses (Lac), in contrast to the village in the municipality of Les Montets Frasses.

Geography

Fräschels is located on 457 m above sea level. Level, 10 km north-east of the district town of Murten (air line). The farming village stretches along the eastern edge of the Great Marsh, at the foot of the adjacent Molassehöhen, in the northern Fribourg plateau. Fräschels is the northernmost municipality in the canton of Fribourg.

The area of ​​3.1 km ² large municipality area includes a section of the Great Marsh. Slightly more than half of the territory is occupied by the intensively farmed level of the Grosse Moos with the corridors Gross Moos, Wiler steps and Fräschelsmoos. The plain is traversed by the Grand Canal. To the east of the municipality floor extends over the slope of Fräschels and the top box to the adjacent Molassehöhen with the Fräschelswald, in the 516 m above sea level. M. the highest point of Fräschels is achieved. From the municipality surface 1997 12 % came from settlements, 17 % of forest and shrubs, 70 % to agriculture and slightly more than 1% was unproductive land.

To Fräschels include a few isolated farms. Neighboring communities of Fräschels are Kerzers in the canton of Fribourg and Kallnach in Canton Bern.

Population

With 456 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012) Fräschels one of the small communities of the Canton of Fribourg. Of the residents 95.0 % are German, 2.1 % speak Macedonian and 0.8 % French ( as of 2000). The population of Fräschels amounted in 1850 to 291 residents in 1900 to 295 inhabitants. After peaking in 1960 with 338 inhabitants, the population increased to 1980 by around 20 % to 268 persons. Since then, a significant population growth was recorded again.

Economy

Fräschels was until the second half of the 20th century, mainly coined by farming village. Even today, the farming, growing vegetables and fruit culture have an important place in the economic structure of the population. More jobs are in small local manufacturing and services available. In Fräschels there is a brick, a nursery operation and a company that repaired agricultural equipment and machinery. In recent decades, the village has developed into a residential community. Many workers are therefore commuters who work mainly in the regions Kerzers and Aarberg.

Traffic

The community is conveniently comparatively quite well developed. It is located on the main street of Kerzers to Lyss. The nearest links to the A1 ( Bern -Lausanne ) is located approximately 4 km from the town center. On 12 June 1876, the railway line from Murten to Lyss was taken with a station in Fräschels in operation.

History

The territory of Fräschels was settled very early. Individual finds date from the Neolithic period, while a grave mound is dated to the Hallstatt period. From the Roman road which had Aventicum connected to Petinesca individual remains were found.

The first written mention of the village was carried out in 1225 under the name Frescin; 1228 the French name Frasses is occupied. The place name is derived from the Latin word Fraxinus (ash). Since the Middle Ages Fräschels was under the rule of Murten. 1484 reached the village as part of the bailiwick of Murten under the joint administration of the estates of Bern and Fribourg.

In 1795 broke out the so-called moss War, a conflict between the Fribourgese and the Bernese communities to land in the plane of the Great Marsh. After the collapse of the ancien régime (1798 ), the village came to the Canton of Fribourg. During the Helvetic Republic and the subsequent time it belonged to the district of Murten, before it was incorporated in 1848 with the new cantonal constitution in the lake district. Fräschels does not have its own church; it belongs to the Reformed parish Kerzers.