Quartier de l'Auge
Origin of the name Quartier de l'Auge
The word « auge » means a U-shaped valley, a trough, which fits the tight loop of the Sarine in which the district was built.[3]
Founding of Quartier de l'Auge
The Auge grew up beside a ford, in a loop of the Sarine, and its streets follow the slope of the river's tightest bend. The ford was already in use in the Mesolithic. The district was incorporated into the town and fortified shortly after Fribourg was founded in 1157. A first wall ran from the Bern Bridge to the Augustinian friary, through the middle of the western row of houses on the rue d'Or, and a second ran right along the river. About thirty mills in the Gottéron valley supported all kinds of trades. After the Reformation, trade declined and the district gradually grew poorer.[1][2][3][4][5]
History of Quartier de l'Auge
Mesolithic. The Sarine ford at the Auge is already in use.[5]
Shortly after 1157. The Auge is incorporated into the town of Fribourg and fortified.[2][3]
1218-1277. Under the Kyburgs, the district gets its triangular square.[5]
1224. The Knights of St John set up a house in the Auge. In 1259 they move it to the Planche supérieure.[5]
1255. The Augustinians found their friary in the district (the foundation is also placed in the mid 13th century). Their church, from the second half of the 13th century and the early 14th, is altered in 1680 and around 1720-1740.[1][4][5]
1511. The Augustinian church becomes a parish church.[5]
1550-1559. Hans Gieng carves the Samaritan Fountain (1550-1551) and then the St Anne Fountain (1557-1559).[4]
1593. Peter Spring delivers an altarpiece to the Augustinian church, the grandest in Switzerland from the Mannerist period.[6]
1720. The Pont du Milieu is rebuilt in tuff, on four arches.[4][5]
1766. The banneret Nicolas Kuenlin has his house built. In 1771 the Cigogne inn gets its painted façade.[4]
1833. The Mosquito Tower (Muggenturm), which defended the Bern Bridge, is demolished (or in 1838).[2][3][4]
1834. The opening of the Grand Suspension Bridge diverts traffic from the Auge to the Bourg.[8]
1853. The Bern Bridge, a covered wooden bridge already recorded in the mid 17th century, is altered once more.[4]
1896. Aloys Balmer makes the stained-glass windows of the Augustinian church.[6]
1899. L. Hertling builds the Catholic crèche of the Auge, enlarged in 1904. The building now houses the Swiss Puppet Museum.[1][4]
1931. F. Job, A. Genoud and A. Cuony build the Auge primary school.[4]
1937. Young people from the district found HC Gottéron.[1]
Late 20th century. Many houses change hands, and former owners move to the newer parts of the city.[1]
Population of Quartier de l'Auge
Sources and references: [7]
| 2022 | 1'090 inhabitants |
Historic sites in Quartier de l'Auge
Bern Bridge. Covered wooden bridge with a half-hipped roof, recorded in the mid 17th century, altered in the mid 18th century and in 1853.[4]
Augustinian church (Saint-Maurice). 13th-century mendicant order church on the rue de la Lenda. It holds Peter Spring's altarpiece (1593), stained glass by Aloys Balmer (1896) and the altar of Notre-Dame de la Consolation.[6]
Samaritan and St Anne fountains. Two fountains by Hans Gieng from the mid 16th century. The statues in place are 20th-century copies.[2][4]
Pont du Milieu. Four-arched tuff bridge of 1720. A gate once defended it.[2][4]
Gothic houses and walls. The district forms an ensemble of Gothic-style houses. The eastern part of the walls survives.[1][2]
Remains in Quartier de l'Auge
Mosquito Tower. Imposing gate tower that defended the Bern Bridge, demolished in 1833 (or in 1838).[2][3][4]
First wall. It ran from the Bern Bridge to the Augustinian friary. A row of houses was later built along its line, west of the rue d'Or.[2][3]
Sources
- Ville de Fribourg, page du quartier de l'Auge
- Fribourg Région, « Quartier de l'Auge »
- Fribourg Région, « The Auge district »
- Inventaire fédéral des sites construits d'importance nationale (ISOS), « Fribourg » (ville)
- Dictionnaire historique de la Suisse, « Fribourg (commune) » (François Guex, Hermann Schöpfer, Alain-Jacques Czouz-Tornare), version du 04.02.2010
- Fribourg Région, « Ancien couvent des Augustins »
- Ville de Fribourg, « Statistiques descriptives générales 2023 », quartier de l'Auge (effectif de fin 2022)
- Ville de Fribourg, page du quartier du Bourg
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