Canton of Fribourg
Broye District
Belmont-Broye

Léchelles

Léchelles is a former municipality in the district of Broye, in the , . On 1 September 1994 the former municipality of merged into the municipality of Léchelles, keeping the name Léchelles.
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  • Type: Village with 751 residents
  • Description: village and former municipality in Belmont-Broye in the canton of Fribourg, Switzerland
  • Also known as: “Lechelles”, “Lechelles FR”, and “Léchelles FR”
  • Postal code: 1773

Places of Interest

Highlights include Gottrau manor house and Léchelles railway station.

Residential building
Photo: WWHenderson20, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a residential building.

Railway stop
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is a railway station in the municipality of , in the canton of . It is an intermediate stop on the standard gauge Fribourg–Yverdon line of Swiss Federal Railways.

Castle
Photo: Tschubby, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is situated 2½ km southwest of Léchelles.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Russy and Ponthaux.

Village
is a former municipality in the district of Broye in the canton of Fribourg in . On 1 January 2016, the former municipalities of , , Léchelles and merged to form .

Village
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is a former municipality in the district of Sarine in the canton of Fribourg in . On 1 January 2025 the former municipalities of and merged to form the new municipality of Grolley-Ponthaux. is situated 2½ km southeast of Léchelles.

Village
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is a village, which is situated 3 km southwest of Léchelles.

Léchelles

Latitude
46.82851° or 46° 49′ 43″ north
Longitude
7.01452° or 7° 0′ 52″ east
Population
751
Elevation
565 metres (1,854 feet)
Open location code
8FR9R2H7+CR
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1420110556
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
2659975
Wiki­data ID
Q68059
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Welsh—“Léchelles” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Léchelles”
  • Basque: “Léchelles”
  • Catalan: “Léchelles”
  • Cebuano: “Léchelles (munisipyo)”
  • Cebuano: “Léchelles”
  • Chinese: “Léchelles”
  • Chinese: “莱谢勒”
  • Chinese: “萊謝爾”
  • Dutch: “Lechelles”
  • Dutch: “Léchelles”
  • Esperanto: “Léchelles”
  • Esperanto: “Leitern”
  • French: “Lechelles”
  • French: “Léchelles”
  • German: “Léchelles FR”
  • German: “Léchelles”
  • German: “Leitern”
  • Hungarian: “Léchelles”
  • Irish: “Léchelles”
  • Italian: “Léchelles”
  • Lombard: “Léchelles”
  • Malay: “Léchelles”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Léchelles”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Léchelles”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Léchelles”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Léchelles”
  • Piemontese: “Léchelles”
  • Portuguese: “Léchelles”
  • Romansh: “Léchelles”
  • Spanish: “Lechelles”
  • Spanish: “Léchelles”
  • Swedish: “Lechelles”
  • Swedish: “Léchelles”
  • Turkish: “Léchelles”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Léchelles”
  • Vietnamese: “Léchelles”
  • Volapük: “Léchelles”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Léchelles”
  • Welsh: “Léchelles”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Léchelles”. Photo: WWHenderson20, CC BY-SA 3.0.