St. Antoni
Origin of the name St. Antoni
The village bears the name of its chapel of St Anthony, which passed to the place in the mid-16th century. The form «S. Antonii» is recorded in 1690. The area was called the Schrickschrot, one of the quarters of the great parish of Tafers. In French it is Saint-Antoine.[1][2][3]
Founding of St. Antoni
The area has been settled since the 8th and 9th centuries, but the present centre stayed empty until 1447. A settlement then formed «auf dem Schrick», around the chapel of St Anthony. St. Antoni belonged to the Old Territories of Fribourg and to the great parish of Tafers. The municipality took in the village and the hamlets of Bächlisbrunnen, Burg, Burgbühl, Guglenberg, Henzenried, Lampertshalten, Lehwil, Melisried, Ober- and Niedermonten, Niedermuhren, Schwenny, Tutzishus, Weissenbach and Winterlingen, over 16.82 km². Until the 20th century it was among the poorest areas of the German-speaking part of the canton. St. Antoni is now part of the municipality of Tafers (merger of 1 January 2021).[1][3]
History of St. Antoni
1448. The chapel of St Anthony, built in the mid-15th century, is said to have been put up after Fribourg's victory over Bern in 1448.[1][2][3]
Mid-16th century. The chapel's name passes to the village.[3]
1767. A chaplaincy is founded for the chapel.[1]
1770. The chapel is enlarged, and again in 1857.[1]
1831. The Schrickschrot becomes an independent municipality.[1][3]
1848. St. Antoni joins the new Sense district.[3]
1866. The Protestants open their school and inaugurate their church.[1]
1867. The Protestant parish is founded.[1]
1894. St. Antoni becomes a Catholic parish. The present church replaces the chapel.[1]
Early 20th century. The centre of the municipality moves from Niedermonten to the village, where the church stands and craft firms, mostly in building, settle.[1]
1999. The Protestants of Alterswil and Tafers join the Protestant parish of St. Antoni.[2][3]
2005. Farming still provides about a third of the jobs.[1]
2014. The councils of St. Antoni and Tafers decide to study closer cooperation, up to a merger.[4]
2015. On 18 October a consultative vote approves the study of a merger.[4]
2019. On 19 May St. Antoni accepts the merger agreement by 786 votes to 292.[4]
2021. On 1 January St. Antoni becomes a village of the municipality of Tafers.[1][4]
Population of St. Antoni
Sources and references: [1][3]
| 1811 | 1'002 |
| 1850 | 1'276 |
| 1900 | 1'523 |
| 1950 | 1'652 |
| 1990 | 1'762 |
| 2000 | 1'924 |
| 2010 | 1'925 |
| 2017 | 2'073 (31.12) |
| 2020 | 2'063 |
Historic sites in St. Antoni
Catholic church. Built for the new parish of 1894, it replaced the chapel of St Anthony, enlarged in 1770 and 1857.[1]
Protestant church. It was inaugurated in 1866, the year the Protestants opened their school. The Protestant parish was founded in 1867.[1]
Cheese dairies. Three cheese dairies work in the former municipality, at Niedermuhren, St. Antoni and Schweni.[3]
Remains in St. Antoni
Grossholz burial mound. A Hallstatt-period burial mound was discovered in the Grossholz in 1970.[1]
Sources
- Dictionnaire historique de la Suisse, « St. Antoni » (Peter F. Kopp, version du 10.06.2021)
- Commune de Tafers, « Geschichte der Gemeinde und der Ortsteile »
- Commune de Tafers, « Geschichte der Gemeinde und der Ortsteile » (brochure PDF)
- Conseil d'État du canton de Fribourg, message 2019-DIAF-5 accompagnant le projet de décret relatif à la fusion des communes d'Alterswil, de St. Antoni et de Tafers (12.11.2019)
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