Cuarny

Cuarny
State :	Switzerland
Canton :	Vaud (VD)
District :	Jura north vaudois
BFS no. :	5911
Postal code :	1404
Coordinates :	542 691  /  180 145 coordinates: 46 ° 46 '12 "  N , 6 ° 41' 18"  O ; CH1903:  542 691  /  180145
Height :	580  m above sea level M.
Height range :	464–668 m above sea level M.
Area :	4.56  km²
Residents:	243 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	53 inhabitants per km²
Website:	www.cuarny.ch
Entrance to Cuarny (coming from Pomy)
Location of the municipality

Cuarny is a municipality in western Switzerland south of Lake Neuchâtel. It is located in the Jura-Nord vaudois district in the canton of Vaud .

geography

Cuarny lies at 580  m above sea level. M. , 4 km east of the district capital Yverdon-les-Bains (beeline). The street line village extends on a terrace on the southern slope of the Montéla in the Molasse hill country of the northern Vaudois Plateau .

The area of ​​the 4.6 km² large municipality covers a section of the hill country between Lake Neuchâtel and the Broyetal . In the northwest of the area is the height of the Montéla (at 669  m above sea level the highest point of Cuarny), in the west of the Haut de Baume ( 642  m above sea level ). The terrace of Cuarny connects to the south and east of this ridge. The south-eastern part is occupied by the Cuarny valley, which is flanked in the south by the steep slopes of Chaboleire and Campanne (on the north side of the high plateau of Cronay). In 1997, 3% of the municipal area was accounted for by settlements, 27% for forests and woodlands and 70% for agriculture.

Some individual farms belong to Cuarny. The neighboring communities of Cuarny are Yverdon-les-Bains in the west, Cheseaux-Noréaz in the north-west, Villars-Epeney in the north, Yvonand in the east, Cronay in the south-east and Pomy in the south-west .

population

With 243 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2018), Cuarny is one of the small communities in the canton of Vaud. 98.3% of the residents are French-speaking , 1.2% Italian and 0.6% German-speaking (as of 2000). The population was 292 in 1850 and 263 in 1900. Thereafter, due to strong emigration, a decrease of 43% to 150 inhabitants was recorded until 1980; since then a slight population increase has been registered again.

economy

Up until the second half of the 20th century, Cuarny was a predominantly agricultural village. Even today, arable farming , fruit growing and cattle breeding play an important role in the income structure of the population. Further jobs are available in local small businesses and in the service sector. In the last few decades, Cuarny has developed into a residential community thanks to its attractive location. Numerous workers are therefore commuters who work mainly in Yverdon .

traffic

The community is very well developed in terms of transport, although it is located away from major thoroughfares on a connecting road from Pomy to Yvonand . The Yverdon-Sud motorway junction on the A1 (Lausanne-Yverdon) opened in 1981 is around 5 km from the town center. The continuation of the A1 from Yverdon to Payerne, inaugurated in 2001, crosses the municipality and has a hillside bridge up to 50 m high and around 900 m long south of the Cuarny valley. Cuarny is connected to the public transport network through a postbus course that runs from Yverdon to Villars-Epeney .

history

During excavations carried out before the construction of the A1 motorway, numerous remains of settlements and objects dating from the Bronze Age and La Tène Period were found. Other finds are dated to the Burgundian period. The first written mention of the place took place in 1174 under the name Quarnie . The names Cuarniez (1449) and Cuarnier (1453) appeared later .

The western part of Cuarny had belonged to the Montheron Abbey since the Middle Ages , while the lower eastern part was under the rule of Saint-Martin. With the conquest of Vaud by Bern in 1536, Cuarny came under the administration of the Yverdon bailiff . 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. As part of a border adjustment, the Grand-Fin farm came from Pomy to Cuarny in 1964. In the 1970s, unsuccessful test drilling for oil was carried out in the municipality.

Attractions

The present church was built in 1763 on the site of the Saint-Laurent chapel, which was mentioned in the 14th century. Some stately farmhouses from the 17th to 19th centuries have been preserved in the town center.

• 

  church

• 

  Village center

• 

  Village fountain

• 

  school

• 

  Farmhouse in the village center

Web links

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

• Official website of the municipality of Cuarny (French)
• Philippe Heubi: Cuarny. 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 .