Marnand

State :

Switzerland

Canton :

Vaud (VD)

District :

Broye-Vully

Municipality :

Valbroye

Postal code :

1524

former BFS no. :

5820

Coordinates :

558 784 / 178 529 coordinates: 46 ° 45 '24 " N , 6 ° 53' 57" O ; CH1903: five hundred and fifty-eight thousand seven hundred eighty-four / one hundred and seventy-eight thousand five hundred and twenty-nine

Height :

477 m above sea level M.

Area :

2.24 km²

Residents:

161 (December 31, 2010)

Population density :

72 inhabitants per km²

Marnand

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Parish before the merger on June 30, 2011

Until the merger to form Valbroye on July 1, 2011, Marnand was a municipality in the Broye-Vully district of the canton of Vaud in Switzerland .

geography

Marnand lies at 477 m above sea level. M. , eight kilometers south-southwest of the district capital Payerne (air line). The village extends on the eastern edge of the Broye valley, on both sides of the village stream, which emerges from an erosion valley into the Broye valley, in the eastern Swiss Central Plateau .

The area of the 2.2 km² former municipal area includes a section in the central Broyetal. The main part of the area is taken up by the flat valley plain of the Broye, with mostly the railway line forming the western boundary. To the east, the communal soil extended into the densely wooded valley of the Dorfbach and the adjacent Molasse heights . On the plateau of Les Corvets is 601 m above sea level. M. reached the highest point of Marnand. In 1997, 10% of the municipal area was in settlements, 30% in forests and woodlands, 59% in agriculture and a little less than 1% was unproductive land.

Neighboring communities of Marnand were Villarzel , Henniez , Granges-près-Marnand and Trey in the canton of Vaud and Châtonnaye in the canton of Friborg .

population

With 161 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2010), Marnand was one of the small communities in the canton of Vaud. 92.4% of the residents are French-speaking, 2.8% Portuguese-speaking and 2.1% German-speaking (as of 2000). The population of Marnand was still 248 in 1900. After the population had decreased to 147 by 1970, the population has remained stable since then.

economy

Marnand was a predominantly agricultural village until the 20th century . Even today, arable farming and cattle breeding play an important role in the income structure of the population. In the 19th century, the place served as an important post office on the Bern-Lausanne road until the opening of the railway line, which is still evident today in inns and stables. Today there are some jobs in local small businesses and in the service sector.

traffic

Marnand has good transport links. 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. On August 25, 1876, the Payerne-Moudon railway with the Granges-Marnand station on the municipal border between Marnand and Granges-près-Marnand was put into operation.

history

The place name is derived from the French word marne ( marl ). Since the Middle Ages, Marnand has been under the rule of Villarzel, which in turn belonged to the Bishop of Lausanne. By dividing an inheritance, the village and Trey formed its own small lordship since 1511. With the conquest of Vaud by Bern in 1536, the village came under the administration of the Bailiwick of Moudon . At the beginning of the 18th century, the rule of Marnand was purchased directly from the Vogt of Moudon. After the collapse of the Ancien Régime , Marnand 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.

Attractions

Marnand Castle is slightly elevated north of the village. The manor house with two garden pavilions and a manor in the Bernese style was built in the middle of the 18th century.

literature

Monique Fontannaz, Brigitte Pradervand: “Le district de la Broye-Vully 1.” (= The art monuments of Switzerland. Volume 128). Ed. Society for Swiss Art History SKG. Bern 2015, pp. 402–408, ISBN 978-3-03797-180-2 .

Web links

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

Fabienne Abetel-Béguelin: Marnand. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Community information
Aerial views of the village