Moudon district

The municipalities of District de Moudon in 2007

The District de Moudon (dt. District Moudon ) was until December 31, 2007 an administrative unit of the canton of Vaud in Switzerland . The main town was Moudon . The district was divided into the three cercles (dt. Circles) Saint-Cierges , Moudon and Lucens .

The district consisted of 32 communities, was 119.60 km² and had a population of 12,532 (end of 2006).

Name of the parish	Population (December 31, 2006)	Area in km²	Inhabitant per km²	Circle (cercle)
Brenles	173	3.85	45	Lucens
Chesalles-sur-Moudon	154	1.65	93	Lucens
Cremin	56	1.63	34	Lucens
Curtilles	288	4.96	58	Lucens
Denezy	133	3.79	35	Lucens
Dompierre (VD)	252	3.21	79	Lucens
Forel-sur-Lucens	162	2.84	57	Lucens
Lovatens	149	3.47	43	Lucens
Lucens	2168	6.27	346	Lucens
Neyruz-sur-Moudon	129	3.52	37	Lucens
Oulens-sur-Lucens	48	1.59	30th	Lucens
Prévonloup	136	1.84	74	Lucens
Sarzens	65	1.45	45	Lucens
Villars-le-Comte	145	4.20	35	Lucens
Bussy-sur-Moudon	180	3.12	58	Moudon
Chavannes-sur-Moudon	208	5.15	40	Moudon
Hermenches	319	4.77	67	Moudon
Moudon	4333	15.65	277	Moudon
Rossenges	54	1.08	50	Moudon
Syens	134	2.52	53	Moudon
Vucherens	513	3.28	156	Moudon
Boulens	258	3.42	75	Saint-Cierges
Chapelle-sur-Moudon	382	4.63	83	Saint-Cierges
Correvon	98	2.24	44	Saint-Cierges
Martherenges	65	0.83	78	Saint-Cierges
Montaubion chardonney	73	2.09	35	Saint-Cierges
Ogens	254	3.40	75	Saint-Cierges
Peyres-Possens	152	1.91	80	Saint-Cierges
Saint-Cierges	443	6.44	69	Saint-Cierges
Sottens	217	4.53	48	Saint-Cierges
Thierrens	606	8.72	69	Saint-Cierges
Villars-Mendraz	185	1.55	119	Saint-Cierges
Total (32)	12,532	119.60	105	(3)

Changes in the community

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  Municipalities until 1952

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  Municipalities until 1959

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  Municipalities until 2007

• January 1st, 1953: Change of name from Chapelle VD → Chapelle-sur-Moudon
• January 1, 1953: Change of name from Neyruz VD → Neyruz-sur-Moudon

• January 1, 1960: District change of Bercher municipality from Moudon district → Echallens district

• January 1, 2008: District change of the municipalities of Brenles , Bussy-sur-Moudon , Chavannes-sur-Moudon , Chesalles-sur-Moudon , Cremin , Curtilles , Dompierre , Forel-sur-Lucens , Hermenches , Lovatens , Lucens , Moudon , Oulens- sur-Lucens , Prévonloup , Rossenges , Sarzens , Syens , Villars-le-Comte and Vucherens from the Moudon district → Broye-Vully district
• January 1, 2008: Change of district of the remaining municipalities in the Moudon district → Gros-de-Vaud district

Web links

• Jean-Jacques Bouquet: Moudon (Bailiwick, district). In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Standard area statistics - municipalities according to four main areas (15.12.2017) of the Federal Statistical Office (FSO)