Chapelle () is a village and former municipality in the district of

Broye The Broye (; ''Dictionnaire-Dikchenéro: Français-Patois/Patê-Franché''. Société cantonale des patoisans fribourgeois. Fribourg: 2013. p. 87 ) is a 68 km long river, in the cantons of Fribourg and Vaud, in Switzerland. It has a watershe ...

in the

canton of Fribourg The canton of Fribourg, also canton of Freiburg, is located in western Switzerland. The canton is bilingual, with French spoken by more than two thirds of the citizens and German by a little more than a quarter. Both are official languages in th ...

Switzerland Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe. It is bordered by Italy to the south, France to the west, Germany to the north, and Austria and Liechtenstein to the east. Switzerland ...

. It was first recorded in 1363 as ''Cappella''. It was named ''Chapelle-près-Surpierre'' until 1953, when the name changed to Chapelle. The municipality also contained the villages Coumin-Dessus and Coumin-Dessous. It had 85 inhabitants in 1811, which increased to 129 in 1831. It then decreased to 120 in 1850, 113 in 1900, 117 in 1950 and 64 in 2000. In 2005 the municipality was incorporated into the larger, neighboring municipality

Cheiry Cheiry (; , locally ) is a former Municipalities of Switzerland, municipality in the district of Broye District, Broye in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland. In 2021 the municipality of Cheiry merged into the municipality of Surpierre. Hist ...

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* Former municipalities of the canton of Fribourg Villages in the canton of Fribourg {{Fribourg-geo-stub