Treyvaux

Village core

Treyvaux (? ​​Freiburg Patois Trivo / i ) is a municipality in the District de la Sarine ( German: Sarine district) of the Canton of Fribourg in Switzerland. The former German name Tref rock is no longer used today.

Geography

Treyvaux is located on 770 m above sea level. M., 9 km south of the capital of the canton of Fribourg (air line). The village is located in a small valley north of the forest height La Combe, in the Alpine foothills zone of Fribourg Mittelland.

The area of ​​11.4 km ² large municipality area includes a portion of the pre-Alpine hills east of the Sarine river trench. The western border is the strongly meandering beneath the Lac de la Gruyère course of the River Sarine, deeply cut into the molasse of the environment. The 200 m wide flat valley floor is mostly forested. Adjoining a long stretches of sandstone cliffs formed up to 100 m high escarpment on which the East goes further into the pre-Alpine hills.

The western, directly dehydrated to Sarine part of municipality is bounded on the north by the village stream of Senèdes on the south by the Ruisseau de la Verasse, both created by the erosion at the bottom of a deep trench. In the middle is the wide valley of the village Bach Treyvaux who from the heights Gros Bugnon (837 m above sea level. M. ), and Chenes d' Essert ( 890 m above sea level. M. ) and La Combe ( 1'082 m above sea level. M. ) is flanked.

Further east, the municipality of soil extends in a relatively narrow tip over a saddle into the valley of the Ruisseau du Pontet, whose water over the Nesslerabach to Ärgera (French: Gérine ) and is then led to the Sarine. To the east of this valley, the forest height Mondzemolien and the ridge of the Petit Cousimbert close on which to 1,530 m above sea level. M. the highest point of Treyvaux is achieved. The forest area de Joux Treyvaux the headwaters of the Ruisseau du Pontet on the northwest slope of the Petit Cousimbert also belongs to the municipality. From the municipality surface 1997 6 % came from settlements, 30 % of forest and shrubs, 63% to agriculture and about 1% was unproductive land.

To Treyvaux include the hamlets of Le Plan (773 m above sea level. M. ) on a ridge above the Sarine ditch Pratzey ( 794 m above sea level. M. ) on the Ruisseau du Pontet at the eastern foot of the altitude of La Combe, as well as the whole area distributed numerous farmsteads. Neighboring communities of Treyvaux are Arconciel, Senèdes, Le Mouret, La Roche, Pont- la -Ville and Rossens.

Population

With 1439 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012) Treyvaux belongs to the medium-sized municipalities in the canton of Fribourg. Of the 93.4 % inhabitants are French-speaking, German-speaking 3.3 % and 1.8 % speak Portuguese (as of 2000). The population of Treyvaux amounted in 1900 to 1063 inhabitants. During the 20th century, the population fluctuated in the range of 920-1050 residents. Only since 1980 (937 inhabitants) a significant population growth was recorded.

Economy

Treyvaux was until the second half of the 20th century, mainly coined by farming village. Even today, the dairy and livestock and to a lesser extent agriculture an important place in the economic structure of the population. Many other jobs are in the local retail industry and the services available. The industrial sector is concentrated in Treyvaux on a large cabinetry, a sawmill, fine mechanical workshops, as well as on the construction industry. The Landi is represented in the community. In good snow conditions and a ski lift is operated above the village on the northern slope of the La Combe. 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, even though it is off the major thoroughfares on a road from Rossens to Le Mouret. The nearest links to the motorway A12 ( Bern -Vevey ) is located about 5 km from the center. By bus Transports Publics Fribourgeois that travel from Fribourg to Bulle or to Jaun, the village is connected to the public transport network.

History

The first written mention of the village was carried out in 1169 under the name Tribus Vallibus. Later published numerous other names: Treyvaul, Treyvas, Trevas ( in the 13th century), Tresvaux ( 1235 ), Trevaux ( 1246) Tresvald, Tresvals, Treswels ( 1260 ), Trevauz ( 1378 ), Trevaul, Trevaulx and Trevaut ( 1423 ) and Treyvaula and Treyvaux ( 1453). Tribus Vallibus is about the importance of a place with three valleys. This transformed into the Latin name is said, unconstitutional as Treyvaux means about as much as the place on the other side of the valley correctly.

Since the Middle Ages Treyvaux was under the rule Arconciel - Illens. After the Berne and Fribourg who in 1475 conquered this rule, had been dissolved in 1484, and Treyvaux the Bailiwick Illens was assigned. After the collapse of the ancien régime (1798 ) belonged to the village during the Helvetic Republic, first as district La Roche and from 1803 to the district of Freiburg, before it was incorporated in 1848 with the new cantonal constitution in the Sarine district.

Attractions

The parish of Treyvaux is one of the oldest in the region. You probably existed even before the 10th century, and came in 1173 under the care of the monastery Hauterive. Original parish church was the present chapel Saint- Pierre on a ledge above the Sarine. Towards the end of the 13th century, the church of Sainte -Marie was built in the village and raised to the new parish. Its present form was given the Church the new building in 1871.