Vuisternens-en-Ogoz

Vuisternens -en- Ogoz

Vuisternens -en- Ogoz (? Freiburg Patois Vouèthèrnin / i ) is a municipality in the District de la Sarine ( German: Sarine district) of the Canton of Fribourg in Switzerland. The former German place name in Winter Lingen Ogoz is no longer used today.

Geography

Vuisternens -en- Ogoz lies at 800 m above sea level. M., 13 km southwest of the capital of the canton of Fribourg ( straight line ) in the region Ogoz. The village extends into the depression in a source of Bach's Longivue at the northern foot of Mont Marly, west of the Lac de la Gruyère, in Molassehügelland of Fribourg Mittelland.

The area of ​​6.2 km ² large municipality area includes a portion of the Molassehöhen between the valleys of Glane in the west and Sarine in the east. The central part of the area occupies the hollow of Vuisternens that is drained by the Longivue to Glane. This trough is flanked to the west of the Meadow Le Signal height ( 825 m above sea level. M. ) and Le Chapy ( 851 m above sea level. M. ). To the east of the municipality ban extends to the ridge west of the lake Lac de la Gruyère. In the south, the municipality of soil over the densely wooded slope extends to the northern summit of Marly, on the with 1'170 m above sea. M. the highest point of Vuisternens -en- Ogoz is achieved. A very narrow but elongated exclave located on the northwest slope of Marly in the headwaters of Glèbe. From the municipality surface 1997 6 % came from settlements, 28 % of forest and woody plants and 66% to agriculture.

To Vuisternens -en- Ogoz include the hamlets of Le Mystère (801 m above sea level. M. ) and Bouleires (790 m above sea level. M. ) on the northern slope of the Marly and numerous individual farms. Neighboring communities of Vuisternens -en- Ogoz are Farvagny, Pont -en- Ogoz and Le Glèbe.

Population

With 938 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012) Vuisternens -en- Ogoz one of the smaller municipalities of the canton of Fribourg. Of the 89.1% inhabitants are French-speaking, 4.7 % and 2.8 % speak German portugiesischsprachig (as of 2000). The population of Vuisternens -en- Ogoz amounted in 1900 to 534 inhabitants. After peaking in 1940 with 590 inhabitants, the population increased to 1960 due to strong migration by over 25% to 433 persons. Only since 1980 (455 inhabitants) a significant population growth was recorded again.

Economy

Vuisternens -en- Ogoz was until the second half of the 20th century, mainly coined by farming village. Even today, the dairy and livestock as well as to a lesser extent agriculture a certain role in the occupational structure of the population. Many other jobs are in the local retail industry and the services available, including an operation for metal and steel and in wood processing and construction. 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. The nearest links to the motorway A12 ( Bern -Vevey ) is located approximately 4 km from the town center. By bus Transports Publics Fribourgeois that lead from Fribourg to Bulle, from Freiburg to Rueyres- Saint-Laurent and Romont after Vuisternens -en- Ogoz, the village is connected to the public transport network.

History

The first written mention of the village was carried out in 1142 under the name Wistarneins. Later, the names Wisternens ( 1162 ) published, Guisternens ( 1170 ), Wistarnens ( 1137 ), Wisternans ( 1223 ), Wintarneins ( 1228 ), Vuisternens (1668 ) and Vuisternens devant Pont. The origin of the place name is not clear. Vuisternens probably goes back to the person's name Winitarn and means with the suffix -ene as much as the people of Winitarn. Other sources give a derivation from the Germanic word ventru (winter) possible.

Since the Middle Ages belonged Vuisternens -en- Ogoz to rule Pont, which came in 1250 under the sphere of influence of the Counts of Savoy. By buying 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 Vuisternens -en- Ogoz during the Helvetic Republic to the district Romont and from 1803 to the district Farvagny before it was incorporated in 1848 with the new cantonal constitution in the Sarine district.

Attractions

The parish church of Saint -Jean -Baptiste goes back in the core of a medieval building. Its present form the church received the extensive new building in 1836. It has a Speissegger organ, the 1749 prepared and transferred in 1873 from Neuenburg to Vuisternens -en- Ogoz. At the edge of the forest above the village is the chapel of Notre -Dame de la Salette, which was built in 1949.

Speissegger - Orgen in the church Saint -Jean Baptiste

Interior of the church

Pulpit and stained glass windows