Rueyres-les-Prés
Rueyres -les- Prés
Rueyres -les- Prés ( Freiburg Patois Ruère - leprosy? / I ) is a municipality in the district Broye the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland.
Geography
Rueyres -les- Prés is located 473 m above sea level. M., 4.5 km north-northwest of Payerne (air line) in the Fribourgese exclave Estavayer -le- Lac. The scattered village extends a scenic location on the gently sloping to the south slope north of Broyeebene, in the north-western Fribourg plateau.
The area of 3.2 km ² large municipality area includes a portion of the ridge that separates Lake Neuchatel from the Broyeebene. In the southeast Rueyres -les- Prés has a small share of the Broyeebene in the area of channelized river course of the Petite Glane. From here, the communal land extends northward on the broad ridge to the edge of the forest Moraye. On the plateau of Montbrelloz is 505 m above sea level. M. the highest point of Rueyres -les- Prés achieved. From the municipality surface 1997 13 % came from settlements, 2% of forest and woody plants, 84 % in agriculture and somewhat less than 1% was unproductive land.
To Rueyres -les- Prés include some individual farms. Neighboring communities of Rueyres -les- Prés are Moren and Vernay in the Canton of Fribourg and Grandcour and Payerne in the canton of Vaud.
Population
With 362 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012) Rueyres -les- Prés is one of the small communities of the Canton of Fribourg. Of the 98.3 % inhabitants are French-speaking, German-speaking 1.3 % and 0.4 % speak Portuguese (as of 2000). The population of Rueyres -les- Prés in 1900 amounted to 215 inhabitants. During the 20th century, the population fluctuated in the range of 180-220 inhabitants. Only in recent years a slight population growth was recorded.
Economy
Rueyres -les- Prés was until the second half of the 20th century, mainly coined by farming village. Even today, the farming, fruit growing and cattle breeding have an important place in the economic structure of the population. Some other jobs are in the local retail industry and the services available. South of Rueyres -les- Prés ( partly due to the municipality ) are the slope systems of the air base Payerne. 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 Estavayer -le- Lac and Payerne.
Traffic
The community is conveniently comparatively quite well developed, even though it is off the major thoroughfares on a link road from Payerne to Forel. The nearest links to the A1 motorway (Lausanne -Bern ), which opened in 2001, is located approximately 6 km from the town center. Through a post bus line between Payerne and Chevroux and by a bus the Transports publics Fribourgeois, which runs from Estavayer -le- Lac as a circular course, Rueyres -les- Prés is connected to the public transport network.
History
The village was called in the 12th century probably Rivorium, in the 13th century and in the 14th century Rivoria Ruery. Documentary evidence are only the names Rueria ( 1437) and Ruere ( 1453). The place name derives from the Latin word roboretum (oak grove ).
Since the Middle Ages was under Rueyres -les- Prés the reign Estavayer. After Bern 1536 had conquered the Vaud countryside, the village came under the rule of Freiburg and the Bailiwick Estavayer was assigned. After the collapse of the ancien régime (1798 ) was one Rueyres -les- Prés during the Helvetic Republic and the subsequent time to the district Estavayer before it was incorporated in 1848 in the District Broye.
Attractions
The parish church of Saint- Loup goes back in the core to the mid-14th century; 1847, the church was restored. In the center some stately farmhouses dating from the 17th to 19th centuries have been preserved.