Avenches district

Map of the former Avenches district

The District d'Avenches (dt. District Avenches) was until December 31, 2007 an administrative unit of the canton of Vaud in Switzerland .

The main town was Avenches . The district was divided into the two cercles (dt. Circles) Avenches and Cudrefin .

The district consisted of eleven communities, was 59.91 km² in size and had 6,601 inhabitants (end of 2006). On July 1, 2006, the municipalities of Donatyre and Avenches were merged to form Avenches.

Name of the parish	Population (December 31, 2006)	Area in km²	Inhabitant per km²	Circle (cercle)
Avenches	2753	17.54	157	Avenches
Faoug	636	3.47	183	Avenches
Oleyres	228	1.92	119	Avenches
Bellerive	585	2.25	260	Cudrefin
Chabrey	221	3.95	56	Cudrefin
Constantine	274	2.83	97	Cudrefin
Cudrefin	1033	15.83	65	Cudrefin
Montmagny	166	3.77	44	Cudrefin
Mur	188	1.78	106	Cudrefin
Vallamand	382	2.36	162	Cudrefin
Villars-le-Grand	298	4.21	71	Cudrefin
Total (11)	6601	59.91	113	(2)

Changes in the community

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  Municipalities until 2001

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  Municipalities until 2005

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  Municipalities until 2007

• January 1, 2002: Fusion of Champmartin and Cudrefin → Cudrefin

• July 1, 2006: Avenches and Donatyre → Avenches merge

• January 1, 2008: District change of all municipalities in the Avenches district → Broye-Vully district

literature

• Gilbert Marion: Avenches (Bailiwick, district). In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Standard area statistics - municipalities according to four main areas (15.12.2017) of the Federal Statistical Office (FSO)