Estavayer-le-Lac

Geschichte

Estavayer-le-Lac <ref name="fc/ks">Florence Cattin/Andres Kristol, Estavayer-le-Lac FR in: Dictionnaire toponymique des communes suisses – Lexikon der schweizerischen Gemeindenamen – Dizionario toponomastico dei comuni svizzeri , Centre de dialectologie, Université de Neuchâtel, Verlag Huber, Frauenfeld/Stuttgart/Wien 2005, und Éditions Payot, Lausanne 2005, S. 339–340. is a former municipality of the canton of Fribourg, situated on the south shore of Lake Neuchâtel. Estavayer-le-Lac is located between Yverdon and Bern. It is the capital of the district of Broye. The municipality of Font merged on 1 January 2012 into the municipality of Estavayer-le-Lac. On 1 January 2017 Bussy, Morens, Murist, Rueyres-les-Prés, Vernay and Vuissens merged into the new municipality of Estavayer.GeographyEstavayer-le-Lac has an area, of 6.4km2. Of this area, 3.57km2 or 55.9% is used for agricultural purposes, while 0.39km2 or 6.1% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 2.14km2 or 33.5% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.02km2 or 0.3% is either rivers or lakes and 0.3km2 or 4.7% is unproductive land. Following the 2012 merger of Font, the total area increased to 8.9km2.