Belmont-sur-Yverdon

Belmont-sur-Yverdon
State :	Switzerland
Canton :	Vaud (VD)
District :	Jura north vaudois
BFS no. :	5902
Postal code :	1432
Coordinates :	537 740  /  177446 coordinates: 46 ° 44 '43 "  N , 6 ° 37' 26"  O ; CH1903:  537,740  /  177446
Height :	535  m above sea level M.
Height range :	431–604 m above sea level M.
Area :	6.46  km²
Residents:	384 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	59 inhabitants per km²
Website:	www.belmont-sur-yverdon.ch
Location of the municipality

Belmont-sur-Yverdon is a municipality in the district of Jura-Nord vaudois in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland .

geography

Historic aerial photo by Werner Friedli from 1963

Belmont-sur-Yverdon lies at 535  m above sea level. M. , 4 km south-southwest of the district capital Yverdon-les-Bains (air line). The clustered village extends on a terrace on the northernmost foothills of the heights of the Gros de Vaud , around 100 m above the Orbe plain , in the Vaudois Central Plateau .

The 6.5 km² municipal area covers a section of the Vaud Central Plateau. The municipality floor extends from the Canal Oriental , a right side canal of the Thielle , southward over the Orbe plain and in a narrow strip over the terrace of Belmont to the wide ridge of the Bois de Suchy . In the southern part, the eastern border is formed by the winding course of the Buron in a valley cut into the molasse layers , while the western border is in the Bois de Suchy forest . At the edge is with 604  m above sea level. M. reached the highest point of Belmont-sur-Yverdon on the Hauts de Villars . In 1997, 6% of the municipal area was in settlements, 18% in forests and woodlands, 75% in agriculture and a little less than 1% was unproductive land.

Belmont-sur-Yverdon includes the hamlet of Le Villaret ( 569  m above sea level ) on a terrace on the western slope of the Buron valley as well as some individual farms. The neighboring communities of Belmont-sur-Yverdon are Yverdon-les-Bains in the north, Gressy in the north-east , Essertines-sur-Yverdon in the east and south , Suchy in the south-west and Ependes in the north-west .

population

With 384 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2018), Belmont-sur-Yverdon is one of the small communities in the canton of Vaud. 96.8% of the residents are French-speaking, 1.6% English-speaking and 0.8% Portuguese-speaking (as of 2000). The population of Belmont-sur-Yverdon was 387 in 1850 and 373 in 1900. Thereafter, due to strong emigration, a decrease of more than 50% to 183 inhabitants was recorded until 1970; since then the population has increased significantly again.

economy

Belmont-sur-Yverdon still lives mainly from agriculture , especially from arable and fruit growing . Outside the primary sector there are relatively few jobs in the village. In the last few decades Belmont-sur-Yverdon has developed into a residential community. Numerous workers are therefore commuters who work mainly in Yverdon .

traffic

The community is very well developed in terms of traffic, although it is located away from the major thoroughfares. The Yverdon-Sud motorway junction on the A1 (Lausanne-Yverdon) opened in 1981 is around 3 km from the town center. Belmont-sur-Yverdon is connected to the public transport network through a post bus course that runs from Yverdon to Suchy .

history

The origin of the place Belmont-sur-Yverdon lies in a castle, which was first mentioned in 1154 as castrum Bellimontis and which belonged to the Lords of Grandson . At the beginning of the 13th century, a settlement developed near the castle, called burgum Bellimontis in 1220 , which held a weekly market and was awarded town charter in the 14th century. The castle and the town of Belmont were the center of the rulership of the same name and formed a small regional center and, since 1389, a castle bailiwick of Savoy . The town began to decline as early as the 15th century. Since the 16th century, Belmont had only the status of a village.

With the conquest of Vaud by Bern in 1536, Belmont-sur-Yverdon came under the administration of the Landvogtei Yverdon , but formed a castleague with its own court. After the collapse of the Ancien Régime , the village belonged to the canton of Léman from 1798 to 1803 during the Helvetic Republic, which then became part of the canton of Vaud when the mediation constitution came into force . In 1798 Belmont-sur-Yverdon was assigned to the district of Yverdon and in 1803 received the status of a district capital.

Attractions

See also : List of cultural assets in Belmont-sur-Yverdon

Some characteristic farmhouses from the 17th to 19th centuries have been preserved in the town center. The parish hall dates from 1820. Belmont-sur-Yverdon does not have its own church, it belongs to the parish of Gressy . Belmont had a chapel in the Middle Ages, but this - like the castle - no longer exists today.

Web links

• Official website of the municipality of Belmont-sur-Yverdon (French)
• Olivier Dessemontet: Belmont-sur-Yverdon. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Aerial photography

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Permanent and non-permanent resident population by year, canton, district, municipality, population type and gender (permanent resident population). In: bfs. admin.ch . Federal Statistical Office (FSO), August 31, 2019, accessed on December 22, 2019 .