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Clavaleyres [ fu ], German peacocks [' pfauə ], is a municipality in the district Broye Vully in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.
Geography
Clavaleyres is located on 449 m above sea level. M., 14.5 km northeast of the district main town Payerne ( straight line ), halfway to Murten. The village extends slightly raised on the south shore of Lake Morat, the Swiss Plateau.
The area of 3.5 km ² large municipality area includes a section on the southern shore of Lake Murten. The communal land extends from the lake southward over the flat riparian strips down to the adjoining Molassehügelland with the wooded elevations Bois de Mottey ( 474 m above sea level. M. ) and Bois de Rosset (g 485 m. M. the highest point of Clavaleyres ). In the south and west, the boundary runs along the river Chandon, which ends with a small alluvial fan in the Lake of Morat. The western part of the municipality is one of the natural area to the broad alluvial plain of the Broye southwest of Lake Murten. From the municipality surface 1997 19 % came from settlements, 25 % of forest and shrubs, 55 % to agriculture and slightly less than 1% was unproductive land.
To Clavaleyres include some individual farms. Neighboring communities of Clavaleyres are Avenches in the canton of Vaud, Villar epic Courgevaux and Greng in the Canton of Fribourg and Clavaleyres in an exclave of the Canton of Bern.
Population
With 756 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012) Clavaleyres one of the smaller municipalities in the canton of Vaud. Of the 56.7% of residents are French-speaking, German-speaking and 34.2% 3.2% portugiesischsprachig (as of 2000). The official language is French. The population of Clavaleyres amounted in 1850 to 425 residents in 1900 to 440 inhabitants. After the population had decreased slightly to 1980 on 391 people, a significant population increase has been registered since then again.
Economy
Clavaleyres was up to the early 20th century mainly by agriculture embossed village. Since the 17th century, viticulture was operated, but this time replaced by cereals, horticulture and art meadows and was eventually abandoned altogether. The town developed in the 19th century into a regional center for wine, grain and horse trade and was the site of a customs free warehouse. In the first half of the 20th century settled in Clavaleyres some smaller industrial companies, including an operating precision engineering, a brickyard and a pipe factory.
Today, the farming and fruit growing have a certain importance in the economic structure of the population. More jobs are in small local manufacturing and services available. The local companies are focused on the areas of horticulture, body construction and shipbuilding. In recent decades, the village has developed into a residential community. Many workers are commuters who work in the nearby towns of Avenches and Murten and partly in Berne. Clavaleyres has a marina and some holiday homes in the area of the lake shore.
Traffic
The community is easily accessible via. It lies on the main road 1 from Bern via Payerne to Lausanne, which was a relatively high-traffic transit route before the opening of the highway. Today Clavaleyres is relieved of the transit traffic. The A1 motorway (Lausanne -Bern ) traverses the southern municipality, with the nearest links Avenches are ( in the west) and Murten ( in the east). On 12 June 1876, the railway line Murten -Payerne opened with a station in Clavaleyres.
History
The territory of Clavaleyres was settled very early. The earliest evidence is a lake settlement from the Neolithic period and a land settlement that was inhabited during the Hallstatt period. Also from the Roman era foundations of a villa and a cemetery were found due to its proximity to Aventicum.
The first written mention of the village was carried out in 1228 under the name Fol Later the names Fo -Show ( 1290 ), Foz ( 1440) and folic ( 1491 ). The place name comes from the Old French word following " beech ( nwald ) » back; This comes in turn from the Latin FAGUM ( accusative singular nominative singular to Fagus ). Of these, the German form of peacocks is derived, which was reinterpreted popular etymology in the Middle Ages and is for the year 1250 ( Phawen ). The original meaning of the place name and its reinterpretation reflected in the village coat of arms, which left shows a peacock and right a book. The German form of the name has remained alive in the region.
Since the Middle Ages Clavaleyres was, together with the Bishop of Avenches Lausanne. With the conquest of Vaud by Bern in 1536, the village came under the administration of the Bailiwick of Avenches. After the collapse of the ancien régime Clavaleyres in 1798 affiliated to the Canton of Fribourg during the Helvetic Republic. With the enactment of the Act of Mediation in 1803 the village was re- allocated together with the present-day district of Avenches an exclave of the Canton of Vaud.
Attractions
The Protestant parish church dates back to the 12th century in the core. From that time, today the Romanesque choir is still preserved, the other parts come from the numerous later conversion and new construction. Next to the church is the parsonage, which was built in the 16th century and later also learned multiple changes. To the east of the rectory, the furnace building from 1785 adjoins.
Personalities
- Daniel -Henri Druey, politicians and 1848-1855 member of the Federal
- Edmond -Henri Crisinel, poet