Cheseaux-Noréaz

Castle Champ- Pittet

Cheseaux- Noreaz is a municipality in the district of Jura-Nord Vaudois in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.

Geography

Cheseaux- Noreaz located 3 km east of the district capital Yverdon- les- Bains ( straight line ). The hamlet Cheseaux extends on a terrace on the southern shore of Lake Neuchâtel, while Noreaz around 100 m is located on the northern slope of the Montela a scenic location above the lake level.

The area of ​​6.1 km ² large municipality area includes a section on the southern shore of Lake Neuchâtel. The communal land extends southward from the lake over a broad reedy shoreline strips and a steep slope up to the terrace of Cheseaux- Noreaz. In the far south, the area includes the wooded slopes of Montela, at the 616 m above sea level. M. the highest point of Cheseaux - Noreaz is achieved. In the eastern part of the municipality, the vast Bois Clos is located on the foothills of the Montela bounded by the stream of the Ruisseau de l' epena. From the municipality surface 1997 10 % came from settlements, 52 % of forest and shrubs, 27% ​​to agriculture and about 11% was unproductive land, including the extensive swampy area along the entire belonging to the municipality shore of Lake Neuchâtel.

Cheseaux- Noreaz consists of the two hamlets Cheseaux and Noreaz. In between, a larger residential area and has developed the gaps related to the settlement of the town of Yverdon- les- Bains. In addition, some individual farms belong to the community. Neighboring communities of Cheseaux - Noreaz are Yverdon- les- Bains, Cuarny, Villars- Epeney and Yvonand.

Population

With 656 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012) Cheseaux- Noreaz one of the small communities of the Canton of Vaud. Of the 92.4 % inhabitants are French-speaking, German-speaking 5.1 % and 0.8 % in English (as of 2000). The population of Cheseaux- Noreaz amounted in 1850 to 156 residents in 1900 to 132 inhabitants. After the population had decreased to 1960 on 98 people, a rapid population increase was recorded with a fivefold increase in population within 40 years.

Economy

Cheseaux- Noreaz was until the second half of the 20th century, mainly coined by agriculture village. Today, the crop and livestock farming have only a minor role in the occupational structure of the population. For more jobs in our local small business and especially in the service sector. The municipal area is located in 1975 opened CESSNOV ( enseignement secondaire supérieur d' Centre du Nord Vaudois ), a large, designed for approximately 1,000 students school center for the town of Yverdon.

The former Swiss Federation for Nature Conservation (now Pro Natura ) bought in 1984, the reeds and swamp region of La Grande Caricaie along the Lake Neuchâtel and the nearby Castle Champ- Pittet. 1985 is an information center for Nature Conservation was established, and has been located since 1991 in Champ -Pittet the western Swiss headquarters of the Pro Natura. In the reeds a small observation tower was built for bird watching.

In recent decades, Cheseaux- Noreaz has developed on the edge of the town of Yverdon into a residential community. Many employed persons are therefore commuters who work mainly in the district capital.

Traffic

The community is easily accessible via normal, although it is off the main roads. The highway connecting Yverdon -Sud at the 1981 opened A1 (Lausanne -Yverdon ) is 4 km from the center. Thanks to the school center has Cheseaux- Noreaz a bus with dense schedule to the station of Yverdon.

History

The first mention of Cheseaux was in 1174 under the name Chesaut, later appeared also the name Chesaulx. The Old French word Chesal refers to the ruins of a building. Noreaz is first mentioned in 1177 as Nobraia, derived from the Old French word noier ( walnut).

Cheseaux and Noreaz belonged since the Middle Ages to the rule Belmont. Even the Priory Vautravers and since the end of the 12th century, the abbey of Mont Heron possessed fundamental rights in the municipal area. With the conquest of Vaud by Bern in 1536 Cheseaux and Noreaz came under the administration of the bailiwick of Yverdon. Because Cheseaux 1764 consisted of only three items and the neighboring community Noreaz refused to become independent, it came in 1765 on the merger of the two hamlets. From 1789 to 1798 Cheseaux- Noreaz was placed under the direct management of Bern. After the collapse of the ancien régime the community from 1798 to 1803 during the Helvetic Republic belonged to the canton of Geneva, who came up then with the enactment of the Act of Mediation in the canton of Vaud. 1798 was assigned to the district of Yverdon.

Attractions

Cheseaux- Noreaz does not have its own church, it belongs to the parish Yverdon. The manor Champ- Pittet was built in 1789-1791 in the style of classicism, on behalf of Frederick Haldimand. Today it houses a nature center of Pro Natura.