Zumholz

Zumholz

Zumholz FR is a municipality in the district of Sense in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland. More Zumholz is the Senseoberland.

Geography

Zumholz is located at 867 m above sea level. M., 13 km southeast of the capital of the canton of Fribourg (air line). The village is located on a promontory on the western flank of the upper scythe, in the hills on the northern edge of the Fribourg Pre-Alps.

The area of ​​1.9 km ² large municipality area includes a portion of the pre-Alpine hills. The eastern border is formed by the broad and filled with gravel bed of the scythe, which is virtually undeveloped and therefore the river largely free path can be. In the area of Zumholz flow from west of Tütschbach ( in parts the southern boundary of the area ) and the grave creek in the Sense. From the river to the community ground extends westward across the country terrace of Zumholz to the Berghölzli, on 943 m above sea level. M. is reached the highest point of the municipality. From the municipality surface 1997 10 % came from settlements, 19 % of forest and shrubs, 69% to agriculture and slightly more than 2% was unproductive land.

To Zumholz belong to the scattered settlements Brand ( 825 m above sea level. M. ) on the hillside north of the grave Bach as well as numerous individual farms. Neighboring communities of Zumholz are Plaffeien, top shot, Brünisried and Alterswil in the Canton of Fribourg and Guggisberg in the canton of Bern.

Population

With 401 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012) Zumholz one of the small communities of the Canton of Fribourg. Of the residents 97.4 % are German, 1.3 % French-speaking and 0.7 % speak Italian ( as of 2000). The population of Zumholz amounted in 1900 to 230 inhabitants. After peaking at 1940 (303 inhabitants), the population increased to 1980 (240 inhabitants) again by 20%. Since then, a significant increase in population was associated with almost a doubling of the population recorded in 20 years.

Economy

Zumholz was until the second half of the 20th century, mainly coined by farming village. Even today, the dairy and livestock have an important place in the economic structure of the population. More jobs are in small local manufacturing and services available. In Zumholz operations of timber construction and engineering are located. The dorm Sonnegg for people with disabilities also serves as a course center. In recent decades, the village has developed with the construction of numerous single-family homes in the neighborhood Allmendfeld into a residential community. Many workers are therefore commuters who work mainly in the regions of Fribourg and Bern.

Traffic

The community is conveniently comparatively quite well developed. It lies on the main road from Duedingen to Plaffeien. By bus Transports Publics Fribourgeois which operate on routes from Freiburg via Tafers and Plaffeien Schwarzsee and from Freiburg via legal hold to Plaffeien Zumholz is connected to the public transport network.

History

Since the Middle Ages Zumholz belonged to the rule Plaffeien; church, it was under the parish right hold and formed as a wood shot one of the four parishes ( wholemeal ) of legal hold. 1445 the village came under the rule of Freiburg and the Old Landscape ( Burgpanner ) has been assigned. After the collapse of the ancien régime (1798 ) was one Zumholz 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.

When the grist of the parish Rechthalten were collected, 1831 independent municipalities, Zumholz, which previously formed as a wood shot its own parish was merged by mistake with Brünisried. This error wanted to eradicate in 1832 with the Declaration of Zumholz the political community. Although the villagers would have preferred to remain a part of the community Brünisried, Zumholz was declared on May 6, 1833 Decision of the State Council, an independent municipality.

As part of since 2000 sponsored by the Canton of Fribourg municipal mergers, a merger of Zumholz with Brünisried up for debate, which was rejected by the population in December 2002 in an advisory with a large majority. Zumholz does not have its own church. The Roman Catholic faithful belongs since 1885 to the parish Plaffeien, the reformed belonged until 1998 to the parish Sensebezirks and since his graduation to the parish Weissensteinstrasse / Legal Hold.