Heitenried

Wiler before wood

Heitenried is a municipality in the district of Sense in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland.

Geography

Heitenried is located at 762 meters above sea level. M., 11 km east of the capital of the canton of Fribourg (air line). The village stretches a scenic location on the southwestern slope of the Magdalena wood, above the valley of the Lettiswilbaches, in the hill country of eastern Fribourg Mittelland.

The area of ​​9.0 km ² large municipality area includes a portion of the Molassehügellandes between the river valleys of Sarine and Sense. The area is bounded to the west by the Lettiswilbach, which flows in a wide valley northward to Taverna. From this Talniederung the communal land M. extends eastward across the undulating hills with heights of Hubel ( 752 m above sea level. M. ), Chapfholz ( 797 m above sea level. M. ) and Magdalena wood ( 822 m above sea level., The highest elevation of Heitenried ) to the sense in the area of ​​the confluence of the Sodbaches. The sense here flows in a deeply incised into the molasse of surrounding moat and has up to 100 m high, laced with some sandstone rocks on steep slopes. From the municipality surface 1997 6 % came from settlements, 19 % of forest and woody plants, 74 % in agriculture and somewhat less than 1% was unproductive land.

To Heitenried include the hamlet Wiler before wood ( 725 m above sea level. M. ) at the level of the east Talniederung of Lettiswilbaches, Selgiswil ( 758 m above sea level. M. ) on a saddle south of Chapfholzes, Breitenried ( 665 m above sea level. M. ) on a terrace above the Lettiswilbach, Lettiswil ( 748 m above sea level. M. ) on the same stream and Schönfels ( 746 m above sea level. M. ) on the plateau west of the trench Sense as well as numerous individual farms. Neighboring communities of Heitenried are St. Antoni and Ueberstorf in the canton of Freiburg and Black Castle in the canton of Bern.

Population

With 1366 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012) Heitenried belongs to the medium-sized municipalities in the canton of Fribourg. Of the residents 97.2 % are German, 0.6 % French-speaking and 0.6 % speak Portuguese (as of 2000). The population of Heitenried amounted in 1850 to 705 residents in 1900 to 748 inhabitants. During the 20th century, the population fluctuated in the range of 750-880 people. Only since 1980 (761 inhabitants) a significant population increase was recorded.

Economy

Heitenried was until the second half of the 20th century, mainly coined by farming village. Even today, the dairy industry, animal husbandry and farming and fruit growing an important place in the economic structure of the population. More jobs are in small local manufacturing and services available. In Heitenried operations of timber construction, the construction industry, computer science, mechanical workshops and cheese factories are located. In recent decades, the village has developed thanks to its attractive location and into a residential community. Many workers are therefore commuters who work mainly in the regions of Fribourg and Bern.

Traffic

The community is conveniently comparatively quite well developed. It lies on the main road from Freiburg via Schwarzburg to Thun. By bus lines of the TPF, which operate on routes from Freiburg to Schwarzburg and Schmitten to Schwarzburg, Heitenried is connected to the public transport network.

History

The territory of Heitenried was settled very early, which could be detected by the finds of grave mounds from the Hallstatt period in Magdalena and individual wood remains of the Roman road that led from Freiburg to Schwarzburg.

Due to the borough's name is believed that Heitenried was founded in the 10th or 11th century by the Alemanni (derived from personal names Heito ). The first written mention of the village was carried out in 1228 under the French name Essers. The German version Riede is narrated by 1296. Both names have the importance of deforestation.

In the Middle Ages Heitenried formed its own little rule, which came into the possession of the Counts of Thierstein in the 14th century. In 1442 the village came by purchase under the rule of Freiburg and the Old Landscape ( Aupanner ) has been assigned.

1476 Battle of Murten, Heitenried and Vyler before Holtz send a "Rice Company ( Compagnie ) " of 37 men equipped,

After the collapse of the ancien régime (1798 ) was one Heitenried during the Helvetic Republic and the subsequent time to the district of Freiburg and from 1831 to the German district of Freiburg, before it was incorporated in 1848 with the new cantonal constitution in the then newly created Sensebezirk.

Attractions

The parish Heitenried is mentioned since 1228. Its present form was the parish church of St. Michael in the new construction in the neogothic style between 1904 and 1905. It has a rich interior. The village is dominated by a castle that was built in the 16th and 17th century under the Family This Bach Steinbrugg at the site of a medieval castle and is now used as a school house.

Chapels there are several hamlets, namely the Mauritius chapel in Wiler before wood, or emergency responders Nicholas chapel in Selgiswil and Joseph Chapel in Schönfels, which is equipped with figures of the 17th century from the parish church of Tafers. In the hamlets characteristic farmhouses from the 17th to 19th centuries have been preserved.