Romont
Romont ( [ ʀɔmɔ ]; Freiburg Patois Remon / i? ) Is a municipality in the district of the canton of Fribourg Glane in Switzerland. The former German name Remund is now used only rarely. The historic town with a surrounding wall was built on a hill in the upper Glânetal.
Geography
Romo is at 780 m above sea level. M., 22 km southwest of the capital of the canton of Fribourg (air line). The historic town extends on an isolated hill, which is surrounded on the east by the upper reaches of the Glane, in the west and north by her side stream Glaney, and is located in the south-western Fribourg country.
The area of 10.66 km ² large municipality area includes a portion of the Molasseplateaus of Fribourg Mittelland. The central part of the municipal area is the up to 90 m above the valley of the Glane towering hills of Romont. This hill with a longitudinal extension ( southwest-northeast ) of 1 km and a width of 600 m is a drumlin of glacial Rhône glacier. To the east of the city includes the hill Talniederung the Glane, further to the east the area extends to the slope of the ridge Les Brévires ( the Court La Montagne 777 m above sea level. M. ). In the north and west of the hill of Romont is the valley of the brook Glaney which opens only slightly northeast of the town in the Glane. To the west and northwest, the communal land extends to the crest of the broad ridge between the middle and the upper Broyetal Glânetal. Here are the Forest Heights Dailles (up to 790 meters above sea level. M. ), Bois de Bossens ( 811 m above sea level. M. ) and Bois de Boulogne ( 811 m above sea level. M. ), the two highest elevations of Romont and Combloney ( 809 m above sea level. M. ). From the municipality surface 1997 16 % came from settlements, 13 % of forest and woody plants, 70 % to agriculture and slightly less than 1% was unproductive land.
To Romont include Bahnhofsiedlung at the southwest foot of the city hill, the hamlet of Les Chavannes ( 694 m above sea level. M. ) at the northern foot of the hill, Le Glaney (700 m above sea level. M. ) north of the creek of the same name, Bossens ( 768 m above sea level. M. ) on the slope southeast of the Bois de Bossens, Arruffens (722 m above sea level. M. ) and L' hall (708 m above sea level. M. ) in the Glâneniederung south of the town as well as numerous individual farms. Neighboring communities of La Romont are Folliaz, Villaz -Saint -Pierre, Mézières, Siviriez and Billens - Hennens in the Canton of Fribourg and Prévonloup, Dompierre, Villars- Bramard and Villarzel in the canton of Vaud.
Population
With 4841 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012) Romont belongs to the medium-sized municipalities in the canton of Fribourg. Of the 83.8% inhabitants are French-speaking, 6.2 % and 2.4 % portugiesischsprachig in German (as of 2000). The population of Romont amounted in 1900 to 2210 inhabitants. During the 20th century a continuous population growth was recorded ( 2931 inhabitants in 1950 ).
Economy
Romo has always been an agrarian embossed town. The agricultural products of the surrounding area were processed here and put on the market. In other farm implements were made here. Thus, the production of scythes and sickles is attested since the 15th century, for example; In the 16th century there was a bell foundry to do so. The weaving played an important role in Romont.
Today Romont offers around 2,700 jobs. With 4 % of the workforce who are still employed in the primary sector, agriculture has only a minor role in the occupational structure of the population. About 39 % of the workforce are employed in the industrial sector, while the service sector, 57% of workers in united (as of 2001).
Agriculture in the area of Romont focuses on dairy farming and animal husbandry, in contrast, only a relatively small proportion of the land is used for agricultural purposes. Since the second half of the 19th century a developed industrial area near the train station southwest of the old town. Today there are companies in the glass industry, machine manufacturers, the furniture industry, the construction of air conditioning and the Holcim (Vaud -Fribourg ) SA and the Tetra Pak (Suisse ) SA resident. Northeast of Romont is a tank farm. The community is the site of a training base.
In the old town there are the municipal and district administration. There are small shops, boutiques, restaurants and cafes, which are primarily focused on the day-trippers. A major tourist attraction is the Musée Suisse du Vitrail opened in 1981 represents (Swiss Museum of Stained Glass ).
Nestle Nespresso invested 300 million francs in Romont. Of these, 200 million are provided for information technology, which is the largest information technology job site worldwide.
Traffic
The community is conveniently comparatively quite well developed. It is located at the intersection of roads from Freiburg to Oron- la -Ville or Moudon and from Bulle to Lucens. The nearest links to the A12 motorway are in Vaulruz (in the south, some 11 kilometers away from the town) and at Matran ( in the northeast, 16 km from the town center ).
On September 4, 1862, the railway line from Lausanne to Freiburg was taken with a station in Romont in operation. On 1 July 1868 the sidelines of Romont was inaugurated by cop. For the fine distribution in public transport bus routes, leaving Romont in all directions and provide access to the hinterland guests. Post Autokurse run to Payerne and Avry, buses Transports Publics Fribourgeois Bulle, Farvagny, Moudon, Palézieux and Prez -vers- Siviriez.
History
The municipal area of Romont traces were found of the Bronze Age and remains of a Roman estate. The settlement Romont was founded in the 10th century by the Dukes of Burgundy and initially bore the Latinized name rotundus mons ( Round Mountain, in reference to the shape of the city hill ); 1228 the name ROMMON is preserved. At this time Romont belonged to the lords of Billens who had built the first castle on the hill in the 12th century.
The fortified town of Romont was founded in 1240 by Peter II of Savoy and expanded into a major Savoyard military base in the Central Plateau. Already in 1244 the town received market rights. Since that time, the lords of the castle of Count Romont called. Because the Count Charles the Bold supported in his ideas in the Vaud region, Romont 1476 was besieged after the battle of Grandson of the Confederates, captured and pillaged. As a result, the town belonged to 1478 to Freiburg, before it was again returned under the sovereignty of the House of Savoy.
When the Bernese 1536 Vaud conquered to Romont under the protection of Freiburg. The Freiburg men built the Bailiwick Romont, which included the upper part of Glânetals. Residence of the governors of Romont remained the castle, which was almost completely rebuilt for this purpose. In the period until the collapse of the ancien régime in 1798 resided 55 governors at the castle. After the town was until 1848 the seat of Fribourg's prefect of the district Romont. With the entry into force of the new cantonal constitution in 1848 Romont was the capital of the district Glane. The old town was repeatedly hit by devastating fires, most recently in 1863. 1868 the then independent municipality Arrufens was fused to the town. 1981 was finally the scattered settlement municipality Les Glânes, which included the yards on the right side of the Glane, incorporated to Romont.
Attractions
Even from a distance is the location on the hillside of an impressive silhouette. Romo has preserved its picturesque old town with its many bourgeois and patrician houses from the 17th to 19th centuries. The town plan covers an area of 550 m × 200 m. There are two longitudinal roads, which are connected to each other by a plurality of cross streets. (Repeatedly renewed in the later period and removed) from the old city wall from the 13th century, a large part is still preserved. The main attachment structure is the mighty round tower tour à Boyer (13th century) at the south end of town. Furthermore, the square Tour de Billens and the Tour de Sauvage belong to the city walls. In contrast, the city gates were broken off in 1842.
At the highest point of the hill is the castle Romont, which was built in the 13th century under Peter of Savoy at the site of an older castle. The oldest parts of the castle ( establishing time created ), the ring wall and the round keep. In contrast, the residential buildings were built practically from scratch in the time from 1588 to 1590. In the courtyard of the castle there is a well - treadmill is of 1772 with 4.5m diameter. Today the castle houses the Musée Suisse du Vitrail.
Diagonally opposite the castle is the Gothic Collegiate Church of Notre -Dame-de - Assumption, which was built on the site of a Romanesque previous building in the 15th century. In 1451 the church dedicated to the south aisle of the previous building was incorporated. The three-nave church has a rectangular choir, a narthex from the 14th and 15th centuries and in the tympanum of the portal a significant Majestas representation of 1250 The interior of the church is remarkable. Ornately carved choir ( 1466-69 ), a relief decoration stone pulpit of 1520, a crucifix from the 15th century, old stained glass from the 14th and 15th centuries and modern stained glass from the 19th and 20th centuries.
Among the houses of the Old Town Restaurant de la Croix Blanche (16th century) near the castle and the Hôtel du Cerf are ( also from the 16th century, remodeled in the 19th century) to mention.
In the Talniederung the Glane northeast of the city hill is the Cistercian monastery Fille -Dieu, founded in 1268 and reached a particularly economic prosperity during the 14th century. Set around a courtyard convent building show a strict baroque style.
Partnership
Since 1980 Romont maintains a partnership with the community Mondolfo in Italy.