Donatyre

State :

Switzerland

Canton :

Vaud (VD)

District :

Broye-Vully

Municipality :

Avenches

Postal code :

1582

former BFS no. :

5457

Coordinates :

570 925 / 191798 coordinates: 46 ° 52 '36 " N , 7 ° 3' 26" O ; CH1903: 570 925 / 191798

Height :

505 m above sea level M.

Area :

1.11 km²

Residents:

153 (December 31, 2005)

Population density :

138 inhabitants per km²

map

Parish before the merger on June 30, 2006

Until June 30, 2006, Donatyre was a municipality in the Avenches district in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland . With effect from July 1, 2006 Donatyre was incorporated into Avenches . The former German name Mutterzieh is no longer used today.

geography

Donatyre lies at 505 m above sea level. M. , one and a half kilometers east-southeast of the district capital Avenches (as the crow flies). The village stretches on a plateau in the south of the Molassehügelland Broyeebene , at the northern foot of the Bois de Châtel , in the Swiss Plateau . The village of Donatyre is politically divided into two parts because the village street runs at the site of the curtain wall of the Roman city of Aventicum . The houses to the north of this street, located “intra muros” from Aventicum, now belong to Avenches, while the houses south of the street and thus “extra muros” form the political municipality of Donatyre.

The area of the former municipal area, which was only 1.1 km² in size, comprised a section of the Molasse hill country between the Broye and the Saane . The main part was taken up by the Donatyre plateau. To the south, the parish extended over the northeastern foothills of the Bois de Châtel ridge to the valley of the Chandon river . In 1997, 9% of the former municipal area was accounted for by settlements, 10% for forests and woodlands and 81% for agriculture.

Donatyre owns a few individual farms. Donatyre's neighboring communities were Avenches in the canton of Vaud and Misery-Courtion and Villarepos in the canton of Friborg .

population

With 153 inhabitants (at the end of 2005) Donatyre was one of the smallest communities in the canton of Vaud. Of the residents, 85% are French-speaking, 11.8% German-speaking and 3.2% Portuguese-speaking (as of 2000). The population of Donatyre was 198 in 1850 and 148 in 1900. After the population had decreased to 101 by 1980, a significant increase in population has since been registered again.

economy

Donatyre was a predominantly agricultural village until the second half of the 20th century . Even today, the have farming and fruit growing an important role in the employment structure of the population. Further jobs are available in local small businesses and in the service sector. There used to be a mill at Chandon. In the last few decades the village has also developed into a residential community. Many employees are commuters who work in Avenches and partly in Freiburg .

traffic

The village has good transport connections. It is on a connecting road from Avenches to Freiburg . The Avenches motorway junction on the A1 (Lausanne-Bern) is around 3 km from the town center. Donatyre is connected to the public transport network via the Postbus course, which runs from Freiburg to Avenches. Another bus line runs on the Freiburg-Donatyre-Villarepos route.

history

The place was first mentioned in a document in 1228 under the name Donnatieri . Later the names Domna Thecla (1343), Dompna Thecla alias Donatiere (1453), Donnatyre (1584) and Donatire (1849) appeared. The place name goes back to the martyr Thecla. The translation of the French word tire ( tirer = to pull ) gave rise to the somewhat peculiar German place name Mutterzieh.

Donatyre was owned by the Bishop of Lausanne since the Middle Ages ; The nobles of Avenches also owned goods in the municipality. 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 , Donatyre 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.

After the residents of Donatyre had voted in June 2005 with 69 against 15 votes for the merger with Avenches, the incorporation became legally binding with effect from July 1, 2006.

Donatyre Church

Early Romanesque church building

The church of Donatyre, formerly consecrated to Saint Stephen, is an early Romanesque building from the 11th century with a horseshoe-shaped apse and an espadaña . The masonry was built entirely from ashlar stones that once belonged to the Roman curtain wall around Aventicum . Even today the church largely shows the shape from the time it was built; In 1906 a gentle restoration was undertaken. In the apse there is a copy of the frescoes by Montcherand . On the edge of the village, some remains of the Aventicum curtain wall have been preserved.

Attractions

literature

A. Naef, Church of Donatyre near Avenches. Annual report of the Swiss Society for the Preservation of Historical Art Monuments 1906/07, pp. 29–30.

Web links

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

Christine Lauener: Donatyre. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Aerial view of the village