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Frasses

Canton of Fribourg · District: Broye · 152 inhabitants (2001, former municipality of Frasses, last figure before the merger)
Part of the municipality of Les Montets
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Origin of the name Frasses

The village is mentioned in 1142 as "Fraces" (or as "Frace" in 1143). The name has no certain explanation.[1][2]

Founding of Frasses

Frasses is a village of arable farming, cereals and fodder crops, and one of the few municipalities in the Broye without any woodland. It belonged to the lordship of Estavayer-Montet and to the general community of Estavayer. In church matters it first came under the parish of Cugy. Frasses is now part of the municipality of Les Montets (merger of 2004).[1][2][3]

History of Frasses

1142. Frasses is mentioned for the first time, as "Fraces".[1]

1317. The tithe of Frasses belongs to Conon, mayor of Cugy.[1][2]

1350. Isabelle de Châlon, lady of Vaud and Estavayer, grants the nobles, burghers and inhabitants the general community linking Estavayer-le-Lac with about a dozen villages, Frasses among them.[3]

1389. The tithe passes to Girard de Moudon, a burgher of Montagny.[1]

1519. Philippe d'Estavayer, the Duke of Savoy and Fribourg share the seigneurial rights, the duke and Fribourg holding a quarter each.[1][2]

1525-1527. Guillaume and Louis de Gruyères-Aigremont, sons of Antoine, each hold half of the tithe. Louis sells his share in 1527 for 560 florins.[1][2]

1676. The village moves from the parish of Cugy to that of Morens-Bussy, then in 1701 to that of Montet (Broye).[1]

1798-1848. Frasses belongs to the district of Estavayer.[1]

1852. On 30 January the Council of State dissolves the general community of Estavayer, and its property is divided.[3]

1878. The railway line from Payerne to Estavayer-le-Lac is built.[1]

1968. A first land consolidation begins. A second follows in 1991, then a land improvement scheme in 1994.[1]

around 1985. A building zone of ten plots is opened, the village's first expansion. By May 1998 it is fully built up.[2]

2001. The A1 motorway crosses the municipality. Its building sites, which skirted the village, changed its surroundings with the national road, ecological compensation areas and a nearby service area.[1][2]

2004. On 1 January Frasses merges with Aumont, Granges-de-Vesin and Montet (Broye) to form the municipality of Les Montets. Its assembly had approved the agreement on 23 September 2003 by 29 votes to 5.[1][4]

Population of Frasses

Sources and references: [1][4]

Population of Frasses
181194
1850123
1900122
1950115
197095
2000154
2001152

Historic sites in Frasses

Former dairy. The premises of the former dairy have been converted into the municipal office.[2]

Remains in Frasses

Early settlement and cemetery. The land has yielded traces of settlement from the Bronze Age, the Iron Age and Roman times, a La Tène cemetery and a Roman cremation grave.[1]

Coin of Tiberius. In 1881 a gold coin of the emperor Tiberius was found at Benguezin.[2]

Sources

  1. Dictionnaire historique de la Suisse, « Frasses » (Marianne Rolle, version du 04.10.2016, lue en allemand)
  2. Commune des Montets, « Frasses »
  3. Commune des Montets, « Montet »
  4. Conseil d'État du canton de Fribourg, message n° 104 du 21 octobre 2003 accompagnant le projet de décret relatif à la fusion des communes d'Aumont, Frasses, Granges-de-Vesin et Montet (Broye)

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