Pont-la-Ville

Pont- la -Ville ( Freiburg Patois Pont ' na - Vela / i ) is a municipality in the canton of Fribourg Greyerzbezirk in Switzerland. The former German name Ponnendorf is no longer used today.

Geography

Pont- la- Ville is located at 746 m above sea level. Level, 10 km north- northeast of the district main town cop (air line). The village is located on a terrace at a scenic location around 70 m above the eastern shore of Lake Gruyère, at the northern edge of the Alps between the heights of Marly in the west and in the east Berra.

The area of ​​4.3 km ² large municipality area ( with Seeanteil 5.5 km ²) includes a portion of the pre-Alpine landscape at the foot of the Berra. The western border is the Lake of Gruyere, where the border is not in the middle of the reservoir, but along the sunken in the water meanders of the Sarine (French: Sarine ) runs. In the south, also sunk in the pent-up water stream valley Serbache forms the natural boundary. The lake shore is only in the area below the village of Pont- la -Ville relatively flat, otherwise it has steep forest and partly on rocky slopes. To the east of the municipality floor extends to the height of verse les Chateaux ( 878 m above sea level. M. ) and on the slope of the hill La Combe. Here is 892 m above sea level. M. the highest point of Pont- la -Ville reached. To the north, the area extends to the dam of Lac de la Gruyère and into the deeply cut into the molasse valley of the Sarine. The northern boundary runs along its springing on the hill La Combe page Bach Ruisseau de la Verasse. From the municipality surface 1997 11 % came from settlements, 16 % of forest and woody plants, 72 % in agriculture and somewhat less than 1% was unproductive land.

At Pont- la -Ville includes the housing estate Sur Momont ( 735 m above sea level. M. ) on the plateau of the peninsula between the Lac de la Gruyère and the side arm of the Serbache as well as numerous individual farms. Neighboring communities of Pont- la-Ville, La Roche, Haute Ville, Pont -en- Ogoz, Rossens and Treyvaux.

Population

With 583 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012) Pont- la -Ville is one of the smaller communities of the Canton of Fribourg. Of the 92.4 % inhabitants are French-speaking, German-speaking 4.6 % and 0.9 % portugiesischsprachig (as of 2000). The population of Pont- la -Ville in 1900 amounted to 471 inhabitants. After that, the population increased by strong migration to 1970 by over 40 % to 270 persons. Since then, rapid population growth was recorded again.

Economy

Pont- la -Ville was until the second half of the 20th century, mainly coined by farming village. Even today, animal husbandry and dairying, and to a lesser extent agriculture an important role in the economic structure of the population. More jobs are in small local manufacturing and services available. Pont- la -Ville has a golf course and hotel. In recent decades, the village has developed thanks to its attractive location into a residential community. Many employed persons are therefore commuters who Bulle and Fribourg work in the regions.

Traffic

The community is located off the major thoroughfares on a road from Rossens to La Roche. The nearest links to the A12, which is open since 1981 from Bern to Vevey throughout, is located about 6 km from the town center. By Bus Transports Publics Fribourgeois that leads from La Roche to Pont- la -Ville, the village is connected to the network of public transport.

History

The municipality of Pont- la -Ville been inhabited since the Roman era. It remains of a Roman building and a druid stone were found. The first written mention of the village was carried out in 1228 under the name Pont la vila, derived from the Latin word pons ( bridge).

Since the Middle Ages was under Pont- la -Ville the Bishop of Lausanne. Below the village initially held a wooden bridge, since 1544 a stone arch bridge (Pont de Thusy ) over the Sarine. This bridge was flooded with the damming of the Lac de la Gruyère in 1948. After the conquest of Vaud by Bern Pont- la -Ville in 1537 came as a former episcopal area under Canton Fribourg rule and was assigned along with the neighboring village of La Roche an exclave of the Bailiwick of bull. After the collapse of the ancien régime (1798 ) was one of Pont- la -Ville during the Helvetic Republic and the subsequent time to 1848 to the then district bull before it was incorporated in the district of Gruyère.

Attractions

The Church of Pont- la -Ville comes in its present form from the 19th century. By the lake there is a chapel.