Mézery-près-Donneloye

State :

Switzerland

Canton :

Vaud (VD)

District :

Jura north vaudois

Municipality :

Donneloye

Postal code :

1407

former BFS no. :

5920

Coordinates :

545.64 thousand / 177 801 coordinates: 46 ° 44 '57 " N , 6 ° 43' 38" O ; CH1903: 545640 / 177801

Height :

625 m above sea level M.

Area :

1.85 km²

Residents:

78 (December 31, 2007)

Population density :

42 inhabitants per km²

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Parish before the merger on December 31, 2007

Mézery-près-Donneloye was a municipality in the district of Jura-Nord vaudois in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland . On January 1, 2008, Mézery-près-Donneloye merged with Donneloye and Gossens to form the new municipality of Donneloye.

geography

Mézery-près-Donneloye is 625 m above sea level. M. , eight kilometers east-southeast of the district capital Yverdon-les-Bains (beeline). The farming village extends east of the valley of the Mentue , in the Molasse hill country of the northern Waadtländer Mittelland .

The area of the former municipality area of 1.9 km² covers a section of the hill country between Lake Neuchâtel and the Broyetal . The parish area stretched on the range of hills between the deep valley of the Mentue in the west and the valley of the Flonzel stream in the east. On the Saumont , a hill on the southern border of the area, is 680 m above sea level. M. reached the highest point of Mézery-près-Donneloye. In 1997, 4% of the municipal area was accounted for by settlements, 10% for forests and woodlands and 86% for agriculture.

Neighboring municipalities of Mézery-près-Donneloye were Donneloye , Molondin and Prahins .

population

With 78 inhabitants (at the end of 2007), Mézery-près-Donneloye was one of the smallest municipalities in the canton of Vaud. 92.7% of the residents are French-speaking and 7.3% German-speaking (as of 2000). Mézery-près-Donneloye had a population of 111 in 1900. After the population had decreased by more than two thirds to 36 people by 1970, a significant increase in population has since been registered again.

economy

Mézery-près-Donneloye still lives mainly from agriculture , especially from agriculture and fruit growing . There are no other jobs in the village outside of the primary sector.

traffic

The village is off the main thoroughfares, but can be easily reached from Donneloye . Mézery-près-Donneloye is connected to the public transport network through a postbus course that runs from Yverdon to Thierrens .

history

The place was first mentioned in a document in 1224 under the name Maiserie . In the following years the spellings Meysiriez , Maysiriez and Maysery appeared . The place name goes back to the Roman personal name Masirius .

Mézery-près-Donneloye formed its own small rule since the Middle Ages . With the conquest of Vaud by Bern in 1536, the village came under the administration of the Bailiwick of Yverdon . After the collapse of the Ancien Régime , Mézery-près-Donneloye 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. Today Mézery-près-Donneloye uses the administrative and commercial infrastructure of the neighboring village of Donneloye .

Attractions

Web links

Commons : Mézery-près-Donneloye - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Philippe Heubi: Mézery-près-Donneloye. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Community information
Aerial views of the village