St. Ursen

St. Ursus (French Saint -Ours; senslerdeutsch Santùrsche; ? Freiburg Patois Chin t'Oua / i ) is a municipality in the district of Sense in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland. Until 1848 was called St. Ursus officially Enet the Brook shot.

Geography

St. Ursus is on 713 m above sea level. M., 5 km east-southeast of the capital of the canton of Fribourg (air line). The scattered settlement municipality extends on a plateau south of the Galtera, at the edge of Schwandstrasse Moss ( Moorniederung ), in the pre-alpine hills of the eastern Fribourg Mittelland.

The area of ​​15.7 km ² large municipality area includes a portion of the hills at the foot of the Fribourg Alps. The area is bounded on the north and east by the river of Galtera. From the Talniederung Galternbaches of the communal land extends southwards into the hilly countryside, particularly with Stöckholz (785 m above sea level. M. ) and Hubel (803 m above sea level. M. ), and reaches on the east Ramenholz the level of legal hold with 890 m above sea level. M. the highest point of St. Ursus. South of this height is also a part of the nature reserve Rotmoos belongs to the municipality.

The western part of the municipality is the Fromattbach ( in the lower reaches Tasbergbach called ) drained to Galtera. Below the confluence of the Tasbergbaches the latter cuts more deeply into the molasse and forms the Galterngraben, flanked by up to 150 m high crisscrossed with sandstone rock cliffs. The Molasseplateau, which is bordered on the north by the Tasbergbach Galterngraben and to the east, culminates in the heights of Tannholz (718 m above sea level. M. ), Brünisberg ( 753 m above sea level. M. ) and Le Croquelet ( 767 m above sea level. M. ). In the extreme west of the municipality borders with Bourguillon to the outskirts of Freiburg. From the municipality surface 1997 accounted for 5% on settlements, 18% of forest and shrubs, 76 % to agriculture and slightly less than 1% was unproductive land.

St. Ursus is next to the village proper of a series of hamlets and settlements. From west to east these are:

• Römerswil, 700 m above sea level. M., on the plateau south of the Galterngrabens
• Brünisberg, 735 m above sea level. M., on the eastern slope of the hill of the same meadow south of Galterngrabens
• Hatteberg, 656 m above sea level. M., on the plateau directly above the steep drop to Galterngraben
• Balterswil, 665 m above sea level. M., west of Tasbergbaches
• Christlisberg, 710 m above sea level. M., west of Talniederung of Fromattbaches
• Tasberg, 666 m above sea level. M., on Tasbergbach
• Obertasberg, 690 m above sea level. M., on the hill between Tasbergbach and Schwandbach
• Engertswil, 691 m above sea level. M., on the plateau north of St. Ursus
• Etiwil, 764 m above sea level. M., south of Stöckholzes
• Strauss, 775 m above sea level. M., in a trough east of Hubels
• Wolperwil, 743 m above sea level. M., on a plateau south of the Galteratals
• Mediwil, 740 m above sea level. M., south of the Valley of Galtera
• Baletswil
• Aeschlenberg, 764 m above sea level. M., on a plateau south of the Galteratals
• Geretach, 763 m above sea level. M., in the upper Galteratal

In addition there are a number of individual farms to St. Ursus. Neighboring communities of St. Ursus are Tafers, Alterswil, Brünisried, Legal Hold, Tentlingen, Pierrafortscha and Freiburg.

Population

With 1252 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012) St. Ursus belongs to the medium-sized municipalities in the canton of Fribourg. Of the residents, 89.9 % speak German, 8.9% and 0.5% speak Portuguese French-speaking (as of 2000). The population of St. Ursus 1900 amounted to 982 inhabitants. During the 20th century, the population fluctuated in the range of 1020-1140 people. Since 1980 (1003 inhabitants), a slight but steady population growth was recorded.

Economy

St. Ursus was until the second half of the 20th century, mainly coined by farming village. At the Galtera and on Tasbergbach earlier mills were operated. Even today, the dairy and cattle breeding and agriculture have an important place in the economic structure of the population. More jobs are in small local manufacturing and services available. St. Ursus has three dairy cooperatives today. In the further wood processing, in the construction industry, metal construction and the electric and energy sectors are represented in the community businesses. The municipal area there are several gravel and sand pits. In recent decades, the village has developed into a residential community. Many workers are therefore commuters who work mainly in the region of Freiburg.

Traffic

The community is conveniently comparatively quite well developed. It is located on a link road from Tafers to keep right. By Bus Transports Publics Fribourgeois that leads from Freiburg via legal hold to Plaffeien St. Ursus is connected to the public transport network.

History

Since the Middle Ages the territory of today's St. Ursus was part of the parish Tafers and belonged from the 15th century to the old landscape of Freiburg ( Burgpanner ). It was called Enet the Bach meal and thereby designated as seen from Tafers from location beyond the Galternbaches area. This consisted of numerous Hofsiedlungen no real center. After the collapse of the ancien régime (1798 ) was one of the area during the Helvetic Republic and the subsequent time to the district of Freiburg, in 1831 the German district of Freiburg, before it was incorporated in 1848 with the new cantonal constitution in the Sense District then newly created.

It was not until 1831 Enet the Brook shot with the separation of Tafers own political community and parish. As the parish church of St. Ursus Chapel served in the hamlet of St. Ursus, who was lying approximately in the center of the new community. 1848, the community was renamed Ursus in Santa. As a result, the former hamlet developed together with the adjacent Engertswil to the center of the community.

Attractions

The St. Ursus chapel was built around 1539 and 1988, the last time extensively restored. It has a decorative Innenausmalung of 1606. The new parish church Saint Urs was built in 1898 in the style of classicism and from 1933 to 1934 increased. The old center of Saint Ursus has several stately farmhouses dating from the 17th to the 19th century.

The hamlet of the municipality are characterized by characteristic farmhouses with wooden stores, chapels and manor houses ( summer residence of long-established families Freiburg city, including from the Weid, This Bach, Weck and Gottrau ). Particularly noteworthy are the castle Hatteberg, built in 1679, with the St. Anne's Chapel; the hamlet Römerswil with Philip chapel and a manor house, which was built in the period 1689-1722; the castle in Balterswil; Ulrich chapel in Tasberg and the Holy Cross Chapel of 1768 in Christlisberg.

Personalities

• Jo Vonlanthen, race car driver
• Rico Weber, artist († October 8, 2004 )
• Hugo Fasel, former National