Henniez VD

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VD is the abbreviation for the canton of Vaud in Switzerland and is used to avoid confusion with other entries of the name Henniezf .
Henniez
Henniez coat of arms
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Canton of VaudCanton of Vaud Vaud (VD)
District : Broye-Vully
BFS no. : 5819i1 f3 f4
Postal code : 1525
Coordinates : 557542  /  176 963 coordinates: 46 ° 44 '33 "  N , 6 ° 52' 59"  O ; CH1903:  557542  /  176,963
Height : 484  m above sea level M.
Height range : 465–607 m above sea level M.
Area : 2.61  km²
Residents: 346 (December 31, 2018)
Population density : 133 inhabitants per km²
Website: www.commune-henniez.ch
Henniez

Henniez

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Henniez is a municipality in the Broye-Vully district in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland . The village is internationally known for the Henniez mineral water of the same name .

geography

Henniez lies at 484  m above sea level. M. , 10 km south-southwest of the district capital Payerne (air line). The village extends on the eastern edge of the Broyetal , at the entrance to the erosion valley of the Trémeule, in the eastern Vaud Central Plateau .

The area of ​​the 2.6 km² municipal area includes a section in the middle Broyetal. The western border runs along the canalised Broye in the middle of the flat valley plain, which is just over 1 km wide. From here the communal soil extends eastward to the adjoining Molasse heights , in which the Trémeule, the village stream of Henniez, has dug an erosion valley. The water from the mineral springs flows into it from a side valley. Above the building of the Anciens Bains de Henniez is at 610  m above sea level. M. reached the highest point of Henniez. The northern boundary is the Vauban brook , also with an erosion valley. In 1997, 13% of the municipal area was in settlements, 23% in forests and woodlands, 60% in agriculture and a little less than 4% was unproductive land.

Henniez has a number of individual farms. The neighboring communities of Henniez are Valbroye and Villarzel , in the canton of Vaud and Surpierre in the canton of Friborg .

population

With 346 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2018) Henniez is one of the small communities in the canton of Vaud. 94.4% of the residents are French-speaking, 3.9% German-speaking and 0.9% Italian-speaking (as of 2000). The population of Henniez was 261 in 1900. Since 1960 (276 inhabitants) the population has decreased slightly.

economy

For a long time, Henniez was primarily an agricultural village. Today, however, agriculture , fruit growing and animal husbandry are only of marginal importance in the income structure of the population.

The mineral springs, which were already known to the Romans and were also used under the Bernese rule, gained further importance in 1880 when a bathing hotel was built at the instigation of the doctor V. Borel. The bathing business helped Henniez to become known throughout Switzerland at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. With the decline of bathing tourism in the course of the 20th century, the spa hotel was closed; today there are no longer any bathing establishments. However, there was a further economic boom with the commercialization of mineral water bottling since 1905. The mineral water Henniez became the best-selling mineral water in Switzerland and Sources Minérales Henniez SA , as the company was last called, the most important mineral water producer in Switzerland. In 2007 the company was taken over by the Swiss food company Nestlé and merged with Nestlé Waters (Suisse) SA .

traffic

The community has good transport connections. It is located on the relatively busy main road 1 from Lausanne via Payerne to Bern , which was the main axis from Bern to western Switzerland before the motorway was built. The village center is relieved of transit traffic through a bypass. On August 25, 1876, the Payerne-Moudon line was put into operation with a station in Henniez.

history

The history of Henniez is strongly influenced by the sources there . These were discovered during the Roman occupation of Helvetia around 200 AD . The Romans conducted the spring water in aqueducts to bathing establishments in Aventicum , today's Avenches , at that time the capital of Roman Switzerland. With the fall of the Roman Empire, the management of the springs ended and the thermal baths disappeared. Despite the prehistory that goes back to antiquity , the first written mention of the place goes back to the year 1380 under the name Ennyt . Later, the names Enny (1578), Ignie (1668), Ingniez (1781) and Igny appeared in the 18th century. The place name probably comes from Ennius , a Roman landowner who ran an estate there.

In the Middle Ages , Henniez was part of the Lucens rule . With the conquest of Vaud by Bern in 1536, the village came under the administration of Kastlanei Lucens in the Bailiwick of Moudon . After the collapse of the Ancien Régime , Henniez 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 Payerne district.

literature

Web links

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

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 .
  2. The history of the Henniez water