Murist

Murist

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

Geography

Murist is located on 662 m above sea level. M., 10 km west-southwest of Payerne (air line) in the Fribourgese exclave Estavayer -le- Lac. The scattered village extends along the ridge between the valleys of Bainoz in the northwest and Petite Glane in the southeast, in the northwestern Molassehügelland Fribourg Mittelland.

The area of ​​8.2 km ² large municipality area includes a portion of the Molassehügellandes between Lake Neuchâtel and the middle Broyetal. The central part of the area is occupied by the plateau of Murist that. Vursy at the height of 694 meters above sea level with M. reaches its highest point. To the northwest, the plateau decreases relatively gently from the valley of the Bainoz. Beyond the stream reaches the church ground to the forest area of Les Bruyeres and at the height of La Frête ( 683 m above sea level. M. ), which will pass under the tunnel d' Arrissoules the opened since 2001 A1 motorway. In the southeast the plateau of Murist falls with a wooded 100 m high steep slope from the Valley of the Petite Glane. Even a small area east of the creek is still one of Murist. From the municipality surface 1997 6 % came from settlements, 18% of forest and woody plants and 76 % to agriculture.

To Murist includes the villages and formerly independent municipalities Franex ( 582 m above sea level. M. ) in the valley of the Petite Glane below the Tour de la Molière, La Vounaise ( 588 m above sea level. M. ) on Bainoz and Montborget (650 m above sea level. M. ) west in a trough of Bainoz, the hamlet Fontanalla (607 m above sea level. M. ) in the valley of Bainoz as well as some individual farms. Neighboring communities of Murist are Cheyres, Châbles, Lully (FR), Les Montets and Nuvilly in the Canton of Fribourg and Treytorrens (Payerne ), Chavannes -le- Chêne and Rovray in the canton of Vaud.

Population

With 595 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012) Murist is one of the small communities of the Canton of Fribourg. Of the 91.9 % inhabitants are French-speaking, German-speaking 7.2 % and 0.7 % speak Italian ( as of 2000). The population of Murist amounted in 1900 to 678 inhabitants. After peaking in 1910 with 713 inhabitants, a population decline by almost 50 % to 375 inhabitants was registered by strong emigration until 1980. Since then a slight population growth was recorded again.

Economy

Murist was until the second half of the 20th century, mainly coined by farming village. Even today, the farming and fruit growing and dairy farming and livestock have an important place in the economic structure of the population. More jobs are in small local manufacturing and services available, including in companies in the construction industry and metal construction. In Murist is the quarry, in the past the shell sandstone of La Molière was dismantled. In recent decades, the village has developed into a residential community. Many workers are therefore commuters who work mainly in the regions Estavayer -le- Lac and Payerne.

Traffic

The community is located off the major thoroughfares on a road from Estavayer -le- Lac to Treytorrens (Payerne ). By Bus Transports Publics Fribourgeois, serving the hinterland of Estavayer -le- Lac out in a circular course, Murist is connected to the public transport network.

History

The first written mention of the village was carried out in 1229 under the name Muris, derived from the Gallo-Roman personal name Mauricius. Since that time belonged to the rule Murist La Molière, who went at the beginning of the 14th century to a side branch of the lords of the font, which is now Font La Molière called themselves.

After Bern 1536 had conquered the Vaud, Murist came under the rule of Freiburg and the Bailiwick font has been allocated. After the collapse of the ancien régime (1798 ) belonged to the village during the Helvetic Republic and the subsequent time to the district Estavayer before it was incorporated in 1848 in the District Broye.

End of the 20th century three surrounding small farming villages were incorporated to Murist. It started with La Vounaise and Montborget, which merged on 1 January 1981 with Murist. Effective on January 1, 1992, Franex was incorporated.

Attractions

• The parish church of Murist dates from the 17th century. In some local characteristic farmhouses from the 17th to 19th centuries have been preserved.
• At the height of the north-east of the village is the Tour de la Molière. This impressive square keep of the 12th century is the only surviving remnant of the former castle of La Molière, which was destroyed in the 16th century.