Tentlingen
Origin of the name Tentlingen
Tinterin in French. The village appears between 1201 and 1212 in the Romance form «Tentenens», then in 1363 in the German form «Tintingen». The name goes back to Alemannic «Tantilingun», formed from the personal name Dandil- and the suffix -ingen. The Romance form is explained by the nearness of the language border.[1][2]
Founding of Tentlingen
Tentlingen (Tinterin) is a street village above the Ärgera ravine, south-east of Fribourg. The Alemanni probably founded it in the 9th-10th century, on ground where traces of Middle Bronze Age settlement have been found. Its inhabitants belonged to the parish of Marly. By 1442 at the latest the village belonged to Fribourg, in the Old Territories (Bourg banner), where it formed a «Schrot» of the parish community of Giffers (Chevrilles).[1][2]
History of Tentlingen
Âge du Bronze moyen. Traces of settlement from this period have been found in the area.[1]
IXe-Xe siècles. The Alemanni probably found the village.[2]
1201-1212. Tentlingen is first recorded, as «Tentenens».[1][2]
1434. A castle owned by the counts of Thierstein is recorded. It is probably destroyed in the 16th century.[1]
1442. By this date at the latest, the village is part of Fribourg's Old Territories.[1]
XVe siècle. The military company carries a banner with a yoke, later taken into the municipal coat of arms.[2]
XVIe siècle. Saint Nicholas chapel is built at Baletschied, on the boundary between Tentlingen and Giffers.[2]
1630. Giffers leaves the parish of Marly and forms a parish with Tentlingen, Neuhaus and St. Silvester.[1][2]
XVIIIe siècle. The de Gady family has a manor house, known as the «Schloss», built opposite the former castle.[1]
1798. Tentlingen is attached to the district of Fribourg.[1]
1831. The division of the parish community creates the political municipality of Tentlingen (1831-1832).[2]
1838. The village joins the German district until 1848.[1]
1880. Saint Nicholas chapel has to make way for a new road.[2]
1888. The chapel bell goes to the innkeeper Cotting at Paphuet in exchange for a red French grenadier's uniform.[2]
Années 1930. The municipality adopts its coat of arms, divided per bend silver and red with a golden yoke, similar to that of the Corpataux family.[2]
1983. On 17 June the farmhouse known as the Tentlingerhaus is inaugurated at its new site in the Ballenberg open-air museum.[2]
1987. On 1 July its owner gives the municipality the bake house at Stersmühle, renovated and inaugurated the following year with a bread baking.[2]
1990. A home for adults with intellectual disabilities and cerebral palsy opens.[1]
2001. For the municipality's 800th anniversary, the parish of Giffers-Tentlingen has a copy of the Saint Nicholas bell made.[2]
Population of Tentlingen
Sources and references: [1][3]
| 1811 | 177 |
| 1850 | 256 |
| 1900 | 416 |
| 1950 | 469 |
| 2000 | 1'147 |
| 2025 | 1'374 |
Historic sites in Tentlingen
The de Gady «Schloss». 18th-century manor house built by the de Gady family opposite the former castle. Nicolas de Gady had a memorial stone to the storming of the Tuileries in 1792 set up, moved in 1979.[1]
Stersmühle bake house. The sandstone oven bears the date 1783. Given to the municipality in 1987, it was renovated in 1988.[2]
Saint Nicholas bell. A copy made in 2001 hangs by the municipal works yard. The original, inscribed «S NICOLAVS ORA PRO NOBIS», lost its handles in a landslide and hangs in the church of Bonnefontaine, next to the sacristy.[2]
Remains in Tentlingen
Thierstein castle. Recorded in 1434, it belonged to the counts of Thierstein and was probably destroyed in the 16th century.[1]
Saint Nicholas chapel. Built in the 16th century at Baletschied, it was demolished in 1880 for a road. Its bell, traded in 1888, later passed to the Redemptorists, who had a small chapel near Muffethan.[2]
Tentlingerhaus. This late 18th-century farmhouse stood where the Hauptstrasse meets the Präderwanstrasse. Joseph Corpataux is its first known owner, in 1790, and it was valued at 500 francs in 1819. It has been rebuilt at Ballenberg.[2]
Sources
- Dictionnaire historique de la Suisse, « Tentlingen » (Eveline Seewer Bourgeois, version allemande du 15.08.2012)
- Commune de Tentlingen, « Geschichte »
- Service de la statistique du canton de Fribourg (SStat), « Population des communes, de 1900 à 2025 » (T01-02-03), population résidante permanente au 31.12.2025
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