Chanéaz

State :

Switzerland

Canton :

Vaud (VD)

District :

Gros-de-Vaud

Municipality :

Montanaire

Postal code :

1409

former BFS no. :

5906

Coordinates :

546 767 / 175 630 coordinates: 46 ° 43 '47 " N , 6 ° 44' 32" O ; CH1903: five hundred and forty-six thousand seven hundred and sixty-seven / 175630

Height :

755 m above sea level M.

Area :

1.39 km²

Residents:

107 (December 31, 2012)

Population density :

77 inhabitants per km²

map

Parish before the merger on December 31, 2012

Until December 31, 2012, Chanéaz was a municipality in the Jura-Nord vaudois district of the canton of Vaud in Switzerland .

On January 1, 2013, it merged with the municipalities of Chapelle-sur-Moudon , Correvon , Martherenges , Neyruz-sur-Moudon , Peyres-Possens , Saint-Cierges and Thierrens to form the new municipality of Montanaire . As a result of the merger, the municipality of Chanéaz was reassigned to the Gros-de-Vaud district.

geography

Chanéaz is located at 755 m above sea level. M. , ten kilometers east-southeast of the district capital Yverdon-les-Bains (beeline). The clustered village extends on a slope slightly to the west in the Molasse hill country of the northern Waadtländer Mittelland , east of the Mentue valley .

The area of the 1.4 km² former municipal area comprises a small section of the hill country between the Orbe plain and the Broye . The former municipality extends from the forest Bois de la Faye eastward over the plateau of Chanéaz to the Grand Bois , in which at 815 m above sea level. M. the highest point of the former municipality is reached. In the extreme southeast, Chanéaz has a share in the Les Marais wetland . In 1997, 4% of the former municipal area was accounted for by settlements, 27% for forests and woodlands and 69% for agriculture.

A few individual farms belong to Chanéaz. The neighboring communities of Chanéaz were Correvon , Bioley-Magnoux , Donneloye and Démoret in the canton of Vaud and the exclave Vuissens in the canton of Friborg .

population

With 107 inhabitants (as of the end of 2012), Chanéaz was one of the smallest municipalities in the canton of Vaud. 96.6% of the residents are French-speaking and 2.3% German-speaking (as of 2000). The population of Chanéaz was 149 in 1850 and 132 in 1900. Thereafter, due to strong emigration, a decrease of more than 50% to 61 inhabitants was recorded until 1970; since then the population has increased slightly again.

economy

Chanéaz still lives mainly from agriculture , in particular from cattle breeding and arable farming . Outside the primary sector there are relatively few jobs in the village. Some workers are also commuters who work mainly in Yverdon .

traffic

The former community is very well developed in terms of traffic. It is on the main road from Yverdon to Moudon . Chanéaz is connected to the public transport network by a postbus course that runs from Yverdon to Thierrens .

history

The first written mention of the place took place in 1184 under the name Chafneya . The place name is derived from the old French variants chaisne and chasne for today's word chêne (oak). Chanéaz belonged to the Donneloye dominion in the Middle Ages , later it formed its own small dominion.

With the conquest of Vaud by Bern in 1536, Chanéaz came under the administration of the Landvogtei Yverdon , but was the seat of a castlane 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 it was assigned to the Yverdon district.

Attractions

The school is now housed in the former church with a small bell tower. Chanéaz belongs to the parish of Donneloye .

Web links

Commons : Chanéaz - collection of images, videos and audio files

Philippe Heubi: Chanéaz. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Community information
Aerial views of the village