Estavayer-le-Lac | |
|---|---|
 Old City of Estavayer-le-Lac | |
 Coat of arms | |
Location of Estavayer-le-Lac  | |
  Estavayer-le-Lac  Estavayer-le-Lac | |
| Coordinates: 46°51′00″N 6°50′50″E / 46.85000°N 6.84722°E | |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Canton | Fribourg |
| District | Broye |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Albert Bachmann |
| Area | |
• Total | 8.93 km2 (3.45 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 459 m (1,506 ft) |
| Highest elevation | 489 m (1,604 ft) |
| Lowest elevation | 429 m (1,407 ft) |
| Population (December 2020) | |
• Total | 6,208 |
| • Density | 700/km2 (1,800/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (Central European Time) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (Central European Summer Time) |
| Postal code(s) | 1470 |
| SFOS number | 2015 |
| ISO 3166 code | CH-FR |
| Surrounded by | Autavaux, Font, Gorgier (NE), Les Montets, Lully, Montbrelloz, Saint-Aubin-Sauges (NE), Sévaz, Vaumarcus (NE) |
| Website | estavayer-le-lac SFSO statistics |
Estavayer-le-Lac (French: [ɛstavaje l(ə) lak];[2] Arpitan: Estavalyér-le-Lèc, locally Thavalyi-le-Lé[3] [θavaˈʎi lə ˈle] ) is a 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.[4] On 1 January 2017 Bussy, Morens, Murist, Rueyres-les-Prés, Vernay and Vuissens merged into the new municipality of Estavayer.
- ^ a b "Arealstatistik Standard - Gemeinden nach 4 Hauptbereichen". Federal Statistical Office. Retrieved 13 January 2019.
- ^ Florence Cattin/Andres Kristol, Estavayer-le-Lac FR (La Broye) in: Dictionnaire toponymique des communes suisses – Lexikon der schweizerischen Gemeindenamen – Dizionario toponomastico dei comuni svizzeri (DTS|LSG), Centre de dialectologie, Université de Neuchâtel, Verlag Huber, Frauenfeld/Stuttgart/Wien 2005, ISBN 3-7193-1308-5 und Éditions Payot, Lausanne 2005, ISBN 2-601-03336-3, S. 339–340.
- ^ Dictionnaire-Dikchenéro: Français-Patois/Patê-Franché. Société cantonale des patoisans fribourgeois. Fribourg: 2013. p. 170
- ^ Amtliches Gemeindeverzeichnis der Schweiz published by the Swiss Federal Statistical Office (in German). Retrieved 17 February 2011