Villars-Epeney

Villars-Epeney
State :	Switzerland
Canton :	Vaud (VD)
District :	Jura north vaudois
BFS no. :	5935
Postal code :	1404
Coordinates :	543 339  /  181343 coordinates: 46 ° 46 '51 "  N , 6 ° 41' 48"  O ; CH1903:  543 339  /  181343
Height :	548  m above sea level M.
Height range :	488-580 m above sea level M.
Area :	0.86  km²
Residents:	100 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	116 inhabitants per km²
Website:	www.villars-epeney.ch
Entrance to Villars-Epeney (coming from La Mauguettaz)
Location of the municipality

Villars-Epeney is a municipality in the Jura-Nord vaudois district in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland .

geography

Villars-Epeney is 548  m above sea level. M. , 5 km east of the district capital Yverdon-les-Bains (beeline). The farming village extends on the slope of the Montéla, which slopes slightly to the northeast, in the Molasse hill country of the northern Vaudois Central Plateau .

The area of ​​the municipality, which is just 0.9 km² in size, comprises a section of the hill country between Lake Neuchâtel and the Broyetal . The community soil is on the northeast slope of the Montéla, in the headwaters of the Ruisseau de l'Epena , which flows in a small hollow in this slope. The highest point of the community is 580  m above sea level. M. reached in the forest of Montéla. In 1997, 2% of the municipal area was accounted for by settlements, 15% for forests and woodlands and 83% for agriculture.

The neighboring communities of Villars-Epeney are Cheseaux-Noréaz in the west and north , Yvonand in the east and Cuarny in the south .

population

With 100 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2018), Villars-Epeney is one of the smallest municipalities in the canton of Vaud. 98.0% of the residents are French-speaking and 2.0% Portuguese-speaking (as of 2000). The population of Villars-Epeney was 51 in 1900. After the population decreased to 27 by 1970, an increase in population has been registered again since then.

economy

Villars-Epeney still lives mainly from agriculture , especially from agriculture and livestock . Outside of the primary sector there are hardly any jobs in the village. Some workers are also commuters who work mainly in Yverdon .

traffic

The community is located off the main thoroughfares on a connecting road from Cheseaux-Noréaz to La Mauguettaz . Villars-Epeney is connected to the public transport network by a postbus course that runs from Yverdon via Cheseaux-Noréaz to Cuarny .

history

The first written mention of the place was in 1177 under the name Espiney , in 1549 the name Villars-Espiney appeared . After the Burgundian Wars , Villars-Epeney came under the administration of the Bailiwick of Grandson in 1476 as a hamlet belonging to Yvonand , which was under the common rule of Bern and Friborg . The hamlet was raised to the status of an independent municipality in 1765. After the collapse of the Ancien Régime , Villars-Epeney 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.

photos

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  graveyard

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  View of the village

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  Village center

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  Farmhouse in the village center

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  View of Lake Neuchâtel

Web links

Commons : Villars-Epeney  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of the municipality of Villars-Epeney
• Community information
• Philippe Heubi: Villars-Epeney. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

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 .