Estavayer-le-Lac
Sign in to saveAlso known as Estavayer-le-Lac FR, Estavayer, Estavayer (former municipality), Estavayer (town)
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.
In the Vinony graph
Within Vinony's link graph, Estavayer-le-Lac is referenced by 69 other articles, and connects out to Vernay, Lake Neuchâtel and Switzerland.
The entry is geolocated on the map.
Vinony files it under Cities in Switzerland, Cultural property of national significance in the canton of Fribourg and Estavayer-le-Lac.
Its subject is documented across 27 Wikipedia language editions.
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
- Swiss town.lowest_m
- 429
- Swiss town.lowest
- Lake Neuchâtel
- Swiss town.highest_m
- 489
- Swiss town.website
- estavayer-le-lac.ch
- Swiss town.mayor
- Albert Bachmann
- Swiss town.neighboring_municipalities
- Autavaux, Font, Gorgier (NE), Les Montets, Lully, Montbrelloz, Saint-Aubin-Sauges (NE), Sévaz, Vaumarcus (NE)
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
Default Parallels Plesk Panel Page
estavayer-le-lac.ch →Link to the official site · 1,627 chars · not written by Vinony
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- neighborhood
- Named after
- Lake Neuchâtel
- Official name
- Estavayer-le-Lac
- Country
- Switzerland
- Located in
- Estavayer
- Area
- 8.66
- Elevation
- 453
- Body of water
- Lake Neuchâtel
- Capital of
- Broye District
- Official website
- www.estavayer-le-lac.ch
- Image
- Estavayer-le-Lac old city.jpg
- Dialing code
- 026
- Licence plate code
- FR
Show 7 more facts
- Commons category
- Estavayer-le-Lac
- postal code
- 1470
- replaces
- Font
- replaced by
- Estavayer
- different from
- Estavayer
- external data available at URL
- geo.ld.admin.ch/boundaries/municipality/2015
Sources (7)
via Wikidata · CC0
~12 min read
Encyclopedic overview
11 sectionsContents
- Geography
- Coat of arms
- Demographics
- Heritage sites of national significance
- Politics
- Economy
- Religion
- Education
- Famous citizens
- References
- External links
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 .
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Estavayer-le-Lac” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.