Champmartin

State :

Switzerland

Canton :

Vaud (VD)

District :

Broye-Vully

Municipality :

Cudrefin

Postal code :

1588

Coordinates :

566492 / 198941 coordinates: 46 ° 56 '27 " N , 6 ° 59' 55" O ; CH1903: 566492 / 198941

Height :

463 m above sea level M.

Area :

2.6 km²

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Parish before the merger on January 1, 2002

Champmartin is a town and formerly an independent political municipality in the Broye-Vully district of the canton of Vaud in Switzerland . On January 1, 2002, Champmartin was incorporated into Cudrefin .

geography

Champmartin lies at 463 m above sea level. M., 7.5 km north-northwest of the district capital Avenches (air line). The small farming village extends into a broad valley depression, which is deepened in the Molasse ridge southwest of Mont Vully . North of the village, the ridge falls in a steep slope ( Les Roches ) up to 70 m to Lake Neuchâtel . Along the lakeshore there is a 500 m wide belt of reeds, behind it a forest belt. These are now designated as nature and bird sanctuaries. The former municipality area was around 2.6 km².

population

With 33 inhabitants (at the end of 2000), Champmartin was one of the smallest municipalities in the canton of Vaud before the merger with Cudrefin. The population of the place was still 57 in 1850 . After the population had decreased by more than half to 25 people by 1960 , a slight population increase has been registered again since then. The share of the German-speaking population was 48% in 2000, which was unusually high for a municipality in Vaud.

economy

Champmartin still lives mainly from agriculture , especially from agriculture and cattle breeding . Outside the primary sector there are no jobs in the village.

traffic

The village is on the road connecting Avenches to Cudrefin. Champmartin is connected to the public transport network through the Postbus course that runs from Avenches to Cudrefin .

history

The municipality of Champmartin was populated very early. There was a settlement on the shores of Lake Neuchâtel during the Bronze Age . Several burial mounds have been discovered in the Charmontel forest south of the village. The place was first mentioned in documents in 1425 under its current name.

Since the Middle Ages , Champmartin was part of the Kastlanei Cudrefin, which was under the influence of Savoy. With the conquest of Vaud by Bern in 1536, the village came under the administration of the Bailiwick of Avenches . After the collapse of the Ancien Régime , Champmartin was annexed to the canton of Friborg during the Helvetic Republic in 1798 . When the Mediation Constitution came into force in 1803, the village, together with what is now the Avenches district, was reassigned to the Canton of Vaud as an exclave. On January 1, 2002, the merger with Cudrefin was finally completed. Champmartin is part of the Montet-Cudrefin parish.

Attractions

Web links

Gilbert Marion: Champmartin. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Aerial view of the village