Champagne VD

VD is the abbreviation for the canton of Vaud in Switzerland and is used to avoid confusion with other entries of the name Champagne .

Champagne
State :	Switzerland
Canton :	Vaud (VD)
District :	Jura north vaudois
BFS no. :	5553
Postal code :	1424
UN / LOCODE :	CH CPA
Coordinates :	540 445  /  186899 coordinates: 46 ° 49 '50 "  N , 6 ° 39' 29"  O ; CH1903:  five hundred forty thousand four hundred and forty-five  /  186899
Height :	457  m above sea level M.
Height range :	438–736 m above sea level M.
Area :	3.92  km²
Residents:	1035 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	264 inhabitants per km²
Website:	www.champagne.ch
Location of the municipality

Champagne ([ ʃɑ̃paɲ ], in the native Franco-Provencal dialect [ (a) tsɑ̃ˈpaɲə ]) is a municipality in the district of Jura-Nord vaudois in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland .

geography

A fork in the road in the center of the Saint-Maurice settlement in the village of Champagne

Aerial photo (1954)

Champagne is 457  m above sea level. M. , 6 km north-northeast of the district capital Yverdon-les-Bains (air line). The village extends at the southern foot of the Jura , on the edge of the Arnon valley , around 1.5 km from the shores of Lake Neuchâtel .

The area of ​​the 3.9 km² municipal area includes a section on the southern slope of the Jura. The course of the river Arnon forms the southern border. To the north, the municipality extends over the wide valley floor and the Les Biolez elevation , which is separated from the Jura slope by the village stream. The area extends further up the slope of the foremost Jura chain and includes the Grand Bois forest . The highest point of Champagne is 730  m above sea level. M. below Fontanezier reached. In 1997, 8% of the municipal area was in settlements, 36% in forests and woodlands, 54% in agriculture and a little less than 1% was unproductive land.

Champagne includes the settlements of Le Moulin ( 448  m above sea level ) to the left of the Arnon and Saint-Maurice ( 471  m above sea level ) to the north of the village, as well as some individual farms. The neighboring municipalities of Champagne are Grandson , Fiez , Fontaines-sur-Grandson , Tévenon and Bonvillars .

population

With 1,035 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2018) who typically call themselves Champagne, Champagne is one of the smaller municipalities in the canton of Vaud. 90.7% of the residents are French-speaking, 2.8% Portuguese-speaking and 1.8% German-speaking (as of 2000). The population of Champagne was 410 in 1850 and 619 in 1900. After that, emigration was recorded until 1960 (449 inhabitants), and since then an upward trend has been observed again.

economy

Until the end of the 19th century, Champagne was mainly an agricultural village. There was a mill and a sawmill on the Arnon. A watch factory was founded in 1871 , which today specializes in the manufacture of precision tools. A biscuit factory and local small businesses offer additional jobs. Agriculture still plays an important role today, with arable farming and viticulture . Due to the bilateral agreements between Switzerland and the EU , the winemakers of Champagne were forbidden to sell their white wine under the name Vin de Champagne , as the Champagne designation of origin is reserved for the French region of the same name. The wine produced in the village has now been renamed Libre-Champ .

For the same reason, a bakery has now also had legal disputes with French winegrowers. The aperitif - pastries Flûte de Champagne , which produced since 1934 under this name and in France under the name Recette de Champagne (= from Champagne recipe is sold) would water down the origin of the wine.

traffic

The community has good transport links. It is 1 km from the main road from Neuchâtel to Yverdon . The Grandson junction with the A5 motorway is on the main access road to the village . The continuation of the A5 to the northeast in the direction of Neuchâtel was opened to traffic in 2005. Champagne is connected to the public transport network by the bus route from Yverdon to Gorgier .

history

The municipality of Champagne was already settled in Roman times, which is attested by archaeological finds from that time. Graves with rich jewelry as grave goods were discovered from the Burgundian period . The place was first mentioned in a document in 885 under the name Campania in a donation from Emperor Charles III. In 888 the place came to the Bishop of Lausanne .

In the Middle Ages the village ( called Champanes in 1228 ) belonged to the territory of the Grandson domain, then to that of the Montagny-le-Corbe domain , and later to Grandson again. After 1476 Grandson became a bailiwick under the common rule of Bern and Freiburg . After the collapse of the Ancien Régime , Champagne 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 .

Attractions

The parish church of Champagne is in the hamlet of Saint-Maurice. It was rebuilt in 1697–99 using parts of the previous building (portal and side chapel). The rectory dates from 1561. In the old town center, some houses from the 18th and 19th centuries have been preserved.

Web links

Commons : Champagne, Switzerland  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of the municipality of Champagne (French)
• Philippe Heubi: Champagne (VD). 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 . 
2. ↑ Chantal Schüle-Marro, Champagne VD (Grandson) in: Dictionnaire toponymique des communes suisses - Lexicon of Swiss community names - Dizionario toponomastico dei comuni svizzeri (DTS | LSG) , Center de dialectologie, Université de Neuchâtel, Verlag Huber, Frauenfeld / Stuttgart / Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-7193-1308-5 and Éditions Payot, Lausanne 2005, ISBN 2-601-03336-3 , p. 229.