Ponthaux
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Ponthaux (; ) is a former municipality in the district of Sarine in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland. On 1 January 2025 the former municipalities of Grolley and Ponthaux merged to form the new municipality of Grolley-Ponthaux.
Key facts
- Swiss town.subject_name
- Ponthaux
- Swiss town.municipality_type
- former
- Swiss town.imagepath_coa
- CHE Ponthaux COA.svg
- Swiss town.canton
- Fribourg
- Swiss town.iso code region
- CH-FR
- Swiss town.district
- Sarine
- Swiss town.postal_code
- 1772
- Swiss town.municipality_code
- 2217
- Swiss town.area
- 5.96
- Swiss town.elevation
- 650
- Swiss town.mayor_title
- Pierre Bourgnon
- Swiss town.neighboring_municipalities
- Autafond, Chésopelloz, Grolley, Belmont-Broye, Montagny, Noréaz
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Ponthaux
- Country
- Switzerland
- Located in
- Grolley-Ponthaux
- Official language
- French
- Population
- 743
- Area
- 5.91
- Elevation
- 650
- Official website
- www.ponthaux.ch
- Image
- 2012-10-11 Distrikto Sarino (Foto Dietrich Michael Weidmann) 126.JPG
- Dialing code
- 026
- Licence plate code
- FR
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- postal code
- 1772
- Commons category
- Ponthaux
- P8168
- blackhouse
- external data available at URL
- geo.ld.admin.ch/boundaries/municipality/2217
- replaced by
- Grolley-Ponthaux
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Encyclopedic overview
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Ponthaux (; ) is a former municipality in the district of Sarine in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland. On 1 January 2025 the former municipalities of Grolley and Ponthaux merged to form the new municipality of Grolley-Ponthaux.
==History== Ponthaux is first mentioned in 1142 as Pontet.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ponthaux” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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