Demoret

Demoret
State :	Switzerland
Canton :	Vaud (VD)
District :	Jura north vaudois
BFS no. :	5912
Postal code :	1415
Coordinates :	547 888  /  177565 coordinates: 46 ° 44 '50 "  N , 6 ° 45' 24"  O ; CH1903:  five hundred forty-seven thousand eight hundred eighty-eight  /  177565
Height :	733  m above sea level M.
Height range :	660–765 m above sea level M.
Area :	4.28  km²
Residents:	141 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	33 inhabitants per km²
Website:	www.demoret.ch
Demoret
Location of the municipality

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

geography

Aerial photo (1964)

Démoret is 733  m above sea level. M. , 10 km east-southeast of the district capital Yverdon-les-Bains (linear distance). The clustered village extends over a plateau sloping slightly to the northeast in the Molasse hill country of the northern Vaud Central Plateau .

The area of ​​the 4.2 km² large municipal area comprises a section of the hill country between Lake Neuchâtel and the Broyetal . The central part of the area is taken up by the gently undulating plateau of Démoret ( Le Mont , up to 751  m above sea level ), which slopes northeast to the headwaters of the Ruisseau des Vaux (right tributary of the Mentue ). To the southwest, the municipality extends to the headwaters of the Flonzel , a side stream of the Ruisseau des Vaux, and reaches in the forest Bois de Chanéaz at 765  m above sea level. M. the highest point of the municipality. In 1997, 5% of the municipal area was accounted for by settlements, 16% for forests and woodlands and 79% for agriculture.

Some individual farms belong to Démoret. The neighboring municipalities of Démoret are in the canton of Vaud Montanaire in the south-south-west, Donneloye in the south-west, Molondin in the west and north-west, Chêne-Pâquier in the north-east and Champtauroz in the east and the exclave Estavayer of the canton Friborg in the south-east.

population

With 141 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2018), Démoret is one of the smallest municipalities in the canton of Vaud. 97.0% of the residents are French-speaking, 1.5% German-speaking and 1.5% Portuguese-speaking (as of 2000). The population of Démoret was 259 in 1850 and 213 in 1900. After that, due to strong emigration, a decrease of more than 50% to 103 inhabitants was recorded until 1980; since then a slight population increase has been registered again.

economy

Démoret still lives mainly from agriculture , especially from agriculture and cattle breeding . Outside the primary sector, there are only a few jobs in local small businesses and in the service sector. Some workers are also commuters who work mainly in Yverdon .

traffic

The community is located off the main thoroughfares on a connecting road from Prahins to Combremont-le-Grand . At certain times of the day, Démoret is served by the bus service that runs from Yverdon to Thierrens .

history

Traces of settlement of the Helvetii , coins and wall remnants from Roman times and burial grounds from the early Middle Ages have been found in the municipality . The first written mention of the place took place in 1154 under the name Donmores . The names Demores (1217), Dummores (1228) and, for the first time, Demoret (1453) appeared later . The place name goes back to the monk Dom Moret (Saint-Maurice).

Since the Middle Ages, the rule of Demoret has been under the lords of Portalban. In 1369 one part of the Démoret rule came to the Lords of Vuissens, the other part to a noble family in Moudon. Later there were numerous other changes of ownership. With the conquest of Vaud by Bern in 1536, Démoret came under the administration of the Bailiwick of Moudon and from then on became the seat of a Meiergericht. 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

See also : List of cultural assets in Démoret

The reformed parish church of Saint-Maurice, first mentioned in 1228, stands on the foundations of a previous building from the 7th and 8th centuries. Romanesque and Gothic style elements are combined in the church . The rectangular choir dates from the 13th century, while the nave was not built until later in the 15th century.

Since 1675 the rule of Démoret belonged to the Doxat family, who owned two castles in the village. The core of the Château d'En-bas with a square tower dates back to the 16th century, but was later rebuilt and expanded several times. The Château-d'En-haut, which was restored in 1823, is one of the few half-timbered houses in the canton of Vaud. In Démoret there are some characteristic farmhouses from the 17th to 19th centuries.

See also

• Nicolas Doxat de Démoret, an officer and fortress builder.

Web links

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

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