Cronay

Cronay
State :	Switzerland
Canton :	Vaud (VD)
District :	Jura north vaudois
BFS no. :	5910
Postal code :	1406
Coordinates :	543 271  /  178688 coordinates: 46 ° 45 '25 "  N , 6 ° 41' 46"  O ; CH1903:  five hundred and forty-three thousand two hundred seventy-one  /  178688
Height :	626  m above sea level M.
Height range :	451–665 m above sea level M.
Area :	6.58  km²
Residents:	385 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	59 inhabitants per km²
Website:	www.cronay.ch
Cronay
Location of the municipality

Cronay is a municipality in the Jura-Nord vaudois district of the canton of Vaud in Switzerland .

geography

Cronay is 626  m above sea level. M. , 5 km east-southeast of the district capital Yverdon-les-Bains (linear distance). The scattered village extends on a plateau in the northern Molassehügelland Vaud midlands , west of the Valley of Mentue .

The area of ​​the municipal area of ​​6.6 km² covers a section of the hill country between Lake Neuchâtel and the Broyetal . The main part of the municipality is taken up by the high plateau of Cronay (at Les Râpes 663  m above sea level ). To the northeast is the somewhat lower plateau of La Crause ( 575  m above sea level ). These plateaus are bounded to the east by the valley of the Mentue and to the west by the valley of Cuarny. The Mentue, which forms the eastern border, flows through a deep Kerbtal, on the edge of which are the Fours de la Baumaz caves . To the west of the village is the forest hill Le Signal , at 666  m above sea level. M. the highest elevation in the community. In the south the border runs along the valley of the Ruisseau du Lin . In 1997, 5% of the municipal area was accounted for by settlements, 33% for forests and woodlands, 61% for agriculture and a little less than 1% for unproductive land.

Several small farm settlements and individual farms belong to Cronay. Neighboring municipalities of Cronay are Donneloye , Orzens , Ursins , Pomy , Cuarny and Yvonand .

population

With 385 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2018), Cronay is one of the small communities in the canton of Vaud. 97.1% of the residents are French-speaking, 1.3% German-speaking and 0.7% Italian-speaking (as of 2000). The population of Cronay was 561 in 1850 and 470 in 1900. Thereafter, due to strong emigration, a decrease of 50% to 242 inhabitants was recorded until 1980; since then a slight population increase has been observed again.

economy

Until the second half of the 20th century, Cronay was predominantly an agricultural village. Even today, arable farming , fruit growing and cattle breeding play an important role in the income structure of the population. There are other jobs in local small businesses and in the service sector, including a company that specializes in computer technology. There is a small power station at the Mentue. In recent decades, thanks to its attractive location, Cronay has developed into a residential community. Numerous workers are therefore commuters who work mainly in Yverdon .

traffic

The community is very well developed in terms of traffic. It is on the main road from Yverdon to Moudon . The Yverdon-Sud motorway junction on the A1 (Lausanne-Yverdon) opened in 1981 is around 5 km from the town center. Cronay is connected to the public transport network by a postbus course that runs from Yverdon to Thierrens .

history

The earliest evidence of a settlement in the municipality of Cronay are graves from the Burgundian period . The first written mention of the place took place in 1142 under the name Crosnai . Later the names Cronai (1160) and Cronex appeared in the 14th century. The place name goes back to the Roman surname Cronius .

Since the 12th century, Cronay formed a lordship that was under the lords of Saint-Martin-du-Chêne. In the late Middle Ages, the Cronay rule, whose castle stood on the Le Signal hill on the edge of the village, was split into three parts. With the conquest of Vaud by Bern in 1536, Cronay came under the administration of the Landvogtei Yverdon . 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

In the middle of the upper part of the village stands the church that was consecrated to Saint-Maurice before the Reformation . Some stately farmhouses from the 17th to 19th centuries have been preserved in the town center. On the hill of Le Signal are the remains of the walls of Castellion Castle, which was built in the first half of the 13th century.

Web links

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

• Official website of the municipality of Cronay
• Community information
• Philippe Heubi: Cronay. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Aerial views of the village

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 .