Estavayer-le-Lac
Estavayer-le-Lac (; , locally ) is a historical town and former Swiss 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.
Key facts
- Swiss town.subject_name
- Estavayer-le-Lac
- Swiss town.image_photo
- Estavayer-le-Lac old city.jpg
- Swiss town.image_caption
- Old City of Estavayer-le-Lac
- Swiss town.municipality_type
- former
- Swiss town.imagepath_coa
- CHE Estavayer COA.svg
- Swiss town.canton
- Fribourg
- Swiss town.iso code region
- CH-FR
- Swiss town.district
- Broye
- Swiss town.postal_code
- 1470
- Swiss town.municipality_code
- 2015
- Swiss town.area
- 6.41
- Swiss town.elevation
- 459
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- Demographics
- Heritage sites of national significance
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Estavayer-le-Lac (; , locally ) is a historical town and former Swiss 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.
==Geography== thumb|Lake front at Estavayer-le-Lac thumb|Aerial view of Estavayer-le-Lac (2015) thumb|Aerial view (1964) Estavayer-le-Lac has an area, , of . Of this area, or 55.9% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 6.1% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 33.5% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.3% is either rivers or lakes and or 4.7% is unproductive land. Following the 2012 merger of Font, the total area increased to .