Rossens, Fribourg

Village center of Rossens

Rossens (? Freiburg Patois Rochin / i ) is a municipality in the District de la Sarine ( German: Sarine district) of the Canton of Fribourg in Switzerland. The former German name Rossing is no longer used today.

Geography

Rossens is located on 708 m above sea level. M., 10 km south-southwest of the capital of the canton of Fribourg (air line). The village is located on a plateau west of the Sarine trench in Molassehügelland of Fribourg Mittelland.

The area of ​​5.1 km ² large municipality area includes a portion of the Molassehöhen between the valleys of the Glane in the west and in the east of the Sarine. The eastern border is the river here strongly meandering along the Sarine, deeply cut into the molasse. The 200 m wide flat valley floor is mostly forested. Adjoining a long stretches of sandstone cliffs, criss-crossed up to 100 m high escarpment to which merges westward into a gently undulating plateau. This is taken up partly of grassland and arable land, partly by forests (Le Chaney, 722 m above sea level. M. ).

In the southeast Rossens has a small share of lake surface of the lake Lac de la Gruyère, which also has steep riverside areas here. To the southwest, the communal land extends to the height Bibou at the northeastern foot of Marly. Here is 762 m above sea level. M. reached the highest point of Rossens. From the municipality surface 1997 16 % came from settlements, 34 % of forest and shrubs, 49% to agriculture and slightly more than 1% was unproductive land.

To Rossens the hamlet Montet are (708 m above sea level. M. ) on the northern edge of the village, the homestead Illens ( 694 m above sea level. M. ) on the plateau above the steep drop to the Saanen valley and various individual courtyards. Neighboring communities of Rossens are Magnedens, Arconciel, Treyvaux, Pont- la -Ville, Pont -en- Ogoz and Farvagny.

Population

With 1242 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012) Rossens belongs to the medium-sized municipalities in the canton of Fribourg. Of the 90.8 % inhabitants are French-speaking, German-speaking 5.7 % and 1.2 % speak Portuguese (as of 2000). The population of Rossens amounted in 1870 to 392 residents in 1900 to 397 inhabitants. During the 20th century, the population fluctuated in the range of 340-410 inhabitants. Since 1970 (410 inhabitants), a striking population growth was associated with almost a tripling of the population recorded in 30 years.

Economy

Rossens was until the second half of the 20th century, mainly coined by farming village. Today, however, the farming, fruit growing, dairy farming and livestock have only a minor role in the occupational structure of the population.

More jobs are in small local manufacturing and services available. Due to the excellent transport links since the 1970s resulted in a commercial zone. In Rossens today operations of the electrical industry, telecommunications, construction of air conditioning, the watch industry, computer science and mechanics are represented. In recent decades, the village has developed into a residential community. Many workers are therefore commuters who work mainly in the regions of Fribourg and Bulle.

Traffic

The community is conveniently moderately well developed. It is located on a link road from Farvagny to La Roche. The nearest links to the A12 motorway, opened in 1981 ( Bern -Vevey ) is located approximately 1.5 km from the center. By bus Transports Publics Fribourgeois that travel from Freiburg to Bulle or after Rueyres -Saint- Laurent, Rossens is connected to the public transport network.

History

The first documentary mention of the place was already in 1162 under the present name; of 1668, the name Rossin has been handed down. The name goes back to the Burgundian personal names Rauso or Rotzo and means with the suffix -ene as much as the people of Rauso / Rotzo.

Since the 12th century belonged to the rule Rossens Pont. With this, the village came in 1483 under the rule of Freiburg and the Bailiwick of Pont- Farvagny been assigned. After the collapse of the ancien régime (1798 ) was one Rossens during the Helvetic Republic to the district of Freiburg and from 1803 to the district Farvagny before it was incorporated in 1848 with the new cantonal constitution in the Sarine district. Effective on January 1, 1972, before an independent municipality forming Illens was incorporated into Rossens.

Attractions

After Rossens in 1870 became an independent parish (formerly belonging to Farvagny ), 1874, the new parish church of Saint -Joseph was built. On a reflowed of the Sarine promontory are the ruins of the castle of Illens, which dates from the 13th century.

Church of Illens

Interior of the church