Bas-Vully

Geography

The common French-speaking person of Bas-Vully is located at 3.5km in the north of Morat and is made up of the three villages of Sugiez (433m), on the channel of the Broye, Nant (433m) and Praz (434m), which by their proximity form nothing any more but only one locality nowadays. This locality extends on northern bank from the Lac from Morat, with the foot of the Mont Vully. The commune has a bank on the Lac of Morat of almost 2km of Môtier to the channel of the Broye. The territory of the commune extends to north on Vully, until reaching the top of the Mount Vully with 653m of altitude, then redescent on the other pouring of the Vully to the channel of Broye. To the west, the commune extends in the Grand marsh Pays from the Three-Lakes (Zeeland). The common neighbors of Bas-Vully are the Haut-Vully (is), Ins (north-eastern), Müntschemier (north-western), Morat (western) and Galmiz (southern).
In 1997, the territory consisted of 12% of built-up areas, 12% of forest zones, 73% of agricultural zones, and approximately unproductive ground 3%.

Population and company

Population

With 1823 inhabitants (at the beginning of 2004) Bas-Vully belongs to the common averages of the Canton of Freiburg. It is the fourth commune of the District of the Lake, after Morat, Chiètres and Courtepin. The population of Bas-Vully rose with 1123 inhabitants in 1850, then 1044 inhabitants in 1900. After a peak in 1940 with 1595 inhabitants, the population decreased of almost 40% to 1004 inhabitants in 1985; a significant increase in population was since then recorded. In this commune of the bilingual district of the Lake, 58.6% of the population speaks French, 30.4% German and 3.2% Portuguese (2000).

Policy

The communal executive is composed of 9 people:

Syndic:

Jean-François Channels (Finances and administration)

Vice-syndic: Advisers and advisers:

Pierre-Andre Burnier (Town and country planning)
Alain Derron (communal Drinking water and field)
Jean-Paul Folly (Professional training, worships, culture and leisures, waste)
Claude Javet (pedestrian Roadway system and paths)

Economy

981ha of the total surface area of the commune, 50 are planted in vine. The harvest of this vineyard is vinified by seven encaveurs. The type of vine dominating is chasselas with 80% of planted surface, the red type of vine is present with 15% of pinot black and the balance of 5% represents several specialities. Agriculture represents a score of exploitation of which only five still have cattle. The field crop with cereals, beets, apple-of-ground, colza and corn is their principal occupation, while the market gardening is in regression. The various trade, large and small occupy a small portion of the population and the majority of the residents of the commune are pendular workers with Morat, Bern, Neuchâtel or Freiburg.

History

The commune of Bas-Vully constituted on January 25th, 1850 by the fusion of the three communes of will riviéra, that is to say Sugiez, Nant and Praz-Chaumont. The village of Chaumont was on the northern slope of the Mount-Vully and disappeared at the end of the century spent following a fire; its some inhabitants were distributed between Joressens and Sugiez. The existence of these three communes is found in the current communal armorial bearings: the poplars belong to Sugiez, the vine stocks in Nant and the sickle in Praz-Chaumont.

External bonds

Official site of the commune of Bas-Vully

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