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Clavaleyres
Summary
Clavaleyres was a municipality in the Bern-Mittelland administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. On 1 January 2022, it merged with Murten in the Canton of Fribourg.
Finds of bronze rings imply a settlement in the area during the La Tène era. During the Roman Empire the area was an estate which supplied the nearby city of Aventicum. In the Middle Ages, Clavaleyres was under the lordship of the Münchenwiler Priory. In 1527 the town was acquired by Bern. From 1798 to 1807, the town belonged to the canton of Fribourg, before it was finally returned to the canton of Bern. There have been various attempts to merge the municipality with Münchenwiler, another exclave of the canton of Bern in the nearby area. The proposals have failed because of the opposition of the inhabitants.
In autumn 2018, the populations of Clavaleyres and Murten voted to merge the two municipalities. On 9 February 2020, popular votes in the Canton of Fribourg and Canton of Bern allowed the change of canton. After approval by the Swiss Parliament, the merger took place in January 2022. It marked the first change in the borders of Canton Fribourg in over 200 years.
Clavaleyres has an area of . As of 2012, a total of or 77.2% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 15.8% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 4.0% is settled (buildings or roads).
During the same year, housing and buildings made up 2.0% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.0%. Out of the forested land, 13.9% of the total land area is heavily forested and 2.0% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 54.5% is used for growing crops and 21.8% is pastures.
The municipality is located on the shores of Lake Murten. It forms a German-speaking exclave on the border between the French-speaking Cantons of Fribourg and Vaud. It consists of the village of Clavaleyres and scattered farm houses. The area has lost population in the last century; in 1880 it had a population of 118; today it has only 54 inhabitants.
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