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Vauderens

Canton of Fribourg · District: Glâne · 462 inhabitants (2000, former municipality of Vauderens, last figure before the merger)
Part of the municipality of Ursy
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Origin of the name Vauderens

The name appears in the 12th century with one Guilelmus de Vualdenens, a witness before 1173 in a charter of the abbey of Hauterive. The forms « Vendeens » and « Voudenens » follow, then « Vouderens » in 1403. What the name means has not been established.[1][2]

Founding of Vauderens

Vauderens lies in the upper Broye valley. From the 14th to the 16th century the lords of Prez and the Maillardoz of Rue shared the village tithe. The village had 20 hearths in 1278, but 5 in 1359. Long given over to traditional farming, it grew denser after the station opened in 1862. Vauderens is now part of the municipality of Ursy (merger of 2001).[1]

History of Vauderens

Before 1173. Guilelmus de Vualdenens appears as a witness in a charter of the abbey of Hauterive.[1]

1345. Jean de Prez, knight, buys the tithe of Vauderens, then called « Vendenens », for 60 pounds.[2]

14th-16th centuries. The lords of Prez and the Maillardoz of Rue share the tithe.[1][2]

1403. The village is written « Vouderens ».[2]

1536-1798. Vauderens belongs to the Fribourg bailiwick of Rue.[1]

1759. The government buys one and a half sheaves of the tithe, under Vaud, Mossel and Corbeiry.[2]

1785. The municipality adopts its first statutes, renewed in 1824.[1][2]

1798-1848. The village belongs to the district of Rue, then, from 1848, to the district of the Glâne.[1]

1862. The station on the Lausanne-Bern line opens, and the settlement grows denser.[1]

1869. The seat of the parish to which Vauderens belongs moves from Morlens to Ursy.[1]

1892. Vauderens opens its school.[1]

1898. A cooperative society is founded.[1]

1985-2006. An organ-building workshop operates in the village.[1]

1997-2000. The tunnel is enlarged and the railway route between Vauderens and Siviriez is altered.[1]

2001. Together with Bionnens and Mossel, Vauderens joins the municipality of Ursy, under a decree of 14 December 2000.[1][2][3]

Population of Vauderens

Sources and references: [1]

Population of Vauderens
127820 hearths
13595 hearths
1850205
1900284
1950263
2000462

Historic sites in Vauderens

Station. Opened in 1862 on the Lausanne-Bern line, it shaped the growth of the village.[1]

Vauderens tunnel. The railway tunnel was enlarged from 1997 to 2000, when the line towards Siviriez was realigned.[1]

Sources

  1. Dictionnaire historique de la Suisse, « Vauderens » (Laurence Margairaz Dewarrat, version du 22.02.2013)
  2. Commune d'Ursy, « Historique »
  3. État de Fribourg, Recueil systématique (RSF 141.1.2), « Liste chronologique des fusions, divisions et changements de nom des communes »

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