Lavaux district
The District de Lavaux was an administrative unit of the Canton of Vaud in Switzerland until December 31, 2007 . The main town was Cully . The district was divided into the three cercles (dt. Circles) Cully , Lutry and Saint-Saphorin .
The district consisted of 12 parishes, was 78.84 km² and had 23,861 inhabitants (end of 2006).
| Name of the parish | Population (December 31, 2006) |
Area in km² |
Inhabitant per km² |
Circle (cercle) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cully | 1746 | 2.37 | 737 | Cully |
| Epesses | 332 | 1.60 | 208 | Cully |
| Forel (Lavaux) | 1817 | 18.51 | 98 | Cully |
| Grandvaux | 1955 | 2.95 | 663 | Cully |
| Riex | 281 | 1.37 | 205 | Cully |
| Villette (Lavaux) | 598 | 1.36 | 440 | Cully |
| Lutry | 8732 | 8.46 | 1032 | Lutry |
| Savigny | 3287 | 16.01 | 205 | Lutry |
| Chexbres | 1996 | 2.15 | 928 | Saint-Saphorin |
| Puidoux | 2403 | 22.86 | 105 | Saint-Saphorin |
| Rivaz | 357 | 0.31 | 1152 | Saint-Saphorin |
| Saint-Saphorin (Lavaux) | 357 | 0.89 | 401 | Saint-Saphorin |
| Total (12) | 23,861 | 78.84 | 303 | (3) |
Changes in the community
Municipalities until 2007
- 1st January 2008: Change of district of all communes in the Lavaux district → Lavaux-Oron district
Web links
- Laurence Margairaz Dewarrat: Lavaux. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Standard area statistics - municipalities according to four main areas (15.12.2017) of the Federal Statistical Office (FSO)
Former districts of the canton of Vaud (1803-2007)