Cheyres

Geschichte

Cheyres is a former municipality in the district of Broye in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland. On 1 January 2017 the former municipalities of Cheyres and Châbles merged into the new municipality of Cheyres-Châbles.HistoryCheyres is first mentioned in 1230 as Cheres.GeographyCheyres has an area, of 5.1km2. Of this area, 2.18km2 or 42.5% is used for agricultural purposes, while 1.83km2 or 35.7% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 0.73km2 or 14.2% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.05km2 or 1.0% is either rivers or lakes and 0.34km2 or 6.6% is unproductive land.Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 8.2% and transportation infrastructure made up 3.9%. while parks, green belts and sports fields made up 1.8%. Out of the forested land, all of the forested land area is covered with heavy forests. Of the agricultural land, 26.5% is used for growing crops and 11.1% is pastures, while 4.9% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is in lakes.The municipality is located in the Broye district, on the southern shore of Lake Neuchatel in the extreme western tip of the Estavayer-le-Lac exclave. It consists of the village of Cheyres and the hamlet of Granges-de-Cheyres.The municipalities of Châbles, Cheyres, Murist, Nuvilly and Vuissens are considering a merger on at a date in the future into the new municipality with an, undetermined name.