Mur VD

VD is the abbreviation for the canton of Vaud in Switzerland and is used to avoid confusion with other entries of the name Mur .

Mur

State :

Switzerland

Canton :

Vaud (VD)

District :

Broye-Vully

Municipality :

Vully-les-Lacs

Postal code :

1787

former BFS no. :

5460

Coordinates :

571 257 / 199 239 coordinates: 46 ° 56 '37 " N , 7 ° 3' 40" O ; CH1903: five hundred and seventy-one thousand two hundred and fifty-seven / one hundred ninety-nine thousand two hundred and thirty-nine

Height :

484 m above sea level M.

Area :

1.78 km²

Residents:

203 (December 31, 2010)

Population density :

114 inhabitants per km²

Website:

www.vully-les-lacs.ch

map

Parish before the merger on June 30, 2011

Mur (VD) is a place in the political municipality Vully-les-Lacs in the Broye-Vully district in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland .

The village of Mur is politically divided into two parts. The smaller, eastern part belongs to the municipality of Mont-Vully in the canton of Friborg as Mur (Vully) .

geography

Mur lies at 484 m above sea level. M. , 17 kilometers northeast of the district capital Payerne (linear distance ). The village extends on the ridge southwest of Mont Vully , between Lake Neuchâtel and Lake Murten , in a panoramic position around 50 m above the lake level of Lake Murten, in the Swiss plateau .

The area of the 1.8 km² large municipal area includes a section on the north shore of Lake Murten. The community soil extends from the lakeshore over the flat edge of the bank northwards to the broad Molasse ridge, on which at 541 m above sea level. M. on the corridor Sur Bessy the highest point of Mur is reached. Towards Lake Murten, the Ruisseau de Forel brook has deepened a small erosion valley into the molasse layers. In 1997, 10% of the municipal area was in settlements, 9% in forests and woodlands, 80% in agriculture and a little less than 1% was unproductive land.

The district of La Ratte ( 505 m above sea level ) on the ridge and the hamlet of Guévaux ( 439 m above sea level ) at the foot of the ridge, near the confluence of the Ruisseau de Forel in the Murten lake, as well as a few individual farms belong to Mur . The neighboring municipalities of Mur were Vallamand and Cudrefin in the canton of Vaud and Haut-Vully in the canton of Friborg.

population

With 203 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2010) Mur was one of the small communities in the canton of Vaud. 71.7% of the residents are French-speaking, 24.9% German-speaking and 1.7% Portuguese-speaking (as of 2000). The population of Mur was 145 in 1870 and 146 in 1900. After the population had decreased to 116 people by 1980, a significant increase in population has been registered since then.

economy

Until the second half of the 20th century, Mur was predominantly an agricultural village. Even today, the have farming and fruit growing an important role in the employment structure of the population. Wine is grown on the southern slopes above Lake Murten, which are optimally exposed to the sun . Further jobs are available in local small businesses and in the service sector. In the last few decades the village has also developed into a residential community thanks to its attractive location. Some workers are commuters who work in the surrounding larger towns.

traffic

The community is located off the main thoroughfares on a connecting road from Salavaux to Lugnorre . The Postbus course, which runs from Sugiez to Lugnorre at the southern foot of Mont Vully, connects Mur to the public transport network.

history

Some remains of a pile dwelling settlement were discovered on the banks of Lake Murten . Mur was first mentioned in a document in 1319 under the name Murs . Mur has belonged to the Savoy Castlanei Cudrefin since the Middle Ages . The separation from Mur goes back to the 14th century, when the western part belonged to Cudrefin, the eastern part to the Lugnorre domain.

With the conquest of Vaud by Bern in 1536, the village came under the administration of the Bailiwick of Avenches . In 1676 numerous houses fell victim to a fire. After the collapse of the Ancien Régime , Mur 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. Mur does not have its own church, it belongs to the parish of Montet-Cudrefin. On July 1, 2011 Mur merged with six other municipalities to form the municipality of Vully-les-Lacs .

Attractions

Web links

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

Gilbert Marion: Mur (VD). In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Aerial views of the village