Cheyres

Former municipality of Switzerland

Cheyres village

Coat of arms

Cheyres

Location of Cheyres

Coordinates: 46°49′N 6°47′E / 46.817°N 6.783°ECoordinates: 46°49′N 6°47′E / 46.817°N 6.783°E

Country

Government

• Mayor

Syndic

Area

• Total

5.16 km² (1.99 sq mi)

Elevation

454 m (1,490 ft)

Population (December 2015)

• Total

1,411

• Density

270/km² (710/sq mi)

Postal code

1468

SFOS number

2010

Surrounded by

Châbles, Chavannes-le-Chêne (VD), Concise (VD), Murist, Rovray (VD), Yvonand (VD)

Twin towns

Saint-Martial (France)

Website

www.cheyres.ch
SFSO statistics

Cheyres (Arpitan: Tsêre or Tsàrè) is a former municipality in the district of Broye in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland. On 1 January 2017 the former municipalities of Cheyres and Châbles merged into the new municipality of Cheyres-Châbles.

Cheyres is first mentioned in 1230 as Cheres.

Cheyres has an area, as of 2009^[update], of 5.1 square kilometers (2.0 sq mi). Of this area, 2.18 km² (0.84 sq mi) or 42.5% is used for agricultural purposes, while 1.83 km² (0.71 sq mi) or 35.7% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 0.73 km² (0.28 sq mi) or 14.2% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.05 km² (12 acres) or 1.0% is either rivers or lakes and 0.34 km² (0.13 sq mi) or 6.6% is unproductive land.

Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 8.2% and transportation infrastructure made up 3.9%. while parks, green belts and sports fields made up 1.8%. Out of the forested land, all of the forested land area is covered with heavy forests. Of the agricultural land, 26.5% is used for growing crops and 11.1% is pastures, while 4.9% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is in lakes.

The municipality is located in the Broye district, on the southern shore of Lake Neuchatel in the extreme western tip of the Estavayer-le-Lac exclave. It consists of the village of Cheyres and the hamlet of Granges-de-Cheyres.

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