Belmont-sur-Yverdon

Belmont- sur -Yverdon is a municipality in the district of Jura-Nord Vaudois in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.

Geography

Belmont- sur -Yverdon is 535 meters. M., 4 km south-southwest of the district capital Yverdon- les- Bains ( straight line ). The scattered village extends on a terrace on the northern foothills of the heights of the Gros de Vaud, about 100 m above the Orbeebene, in the Vaud Mittelland.

The area of ​​6.5 km ² large municipality area includes a portion of the Vaud Mittelland. The communal land extends from the Canal Oriental, a right channel of Thielle, southward over the Orbeebene and in a narrow strip on the terrace of Belmont to the wide ridge of the Bois de Suchy. In the southern part of the eastern border is formed by the tortuous course of the Buron in a valley cut into the molasse, while the western boundary is located in the forest area Bois de Suchy. At the edge of which is 604 m above sea level. M. on the Hauts de Villars reached the highest point of Belmont -sur -Yverdon. From the municipality surface 1997 6 % came from settlements, 18% of forest and shrubs, 75 % to agriculture and slightly less than 1% was unproductive land.

At Belmont- sur -Yverdon includes the hamlet of Le Villaret ( 569 m above sea level. M. ) on a terrace on the west slope of the Buron as well as some individual farms. The neighboring communities of Belmont -sur -Yverdon are in the north Yverdon- les- Bains, in the northeast Gressy, the east and south Essertines -sur- Yverdon, in the southwest and northwest Suchy Ependes.

Population

With 331 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012) Belmont- sur -Yverdon is one of the small communities of the Canton of Vaud. Of the residents 96.8 % are French, 1.6 % English speaking and 0.8 % portugiesischsprachig (as of 2000). The population of Belmont- sur -Yverdon amounted in 1850 to 387 residents in 1900 to 373 inhabitants. Thereafter, a decrease by more than 50 % to 183 inhabitants was recorded due to high levels of emigration until 1970; Since then, the population has risen significantly.

Economy

Belmont- sur -Yverdon still lives mainly from agriculture, especially from farming and fruit growing. Outside the primary sector there are relatively few jobs in the village. In recent decades, Belmont- sur -Yverdon has developed into a residential community. Many employed persons are therefore commuters who work mainly in Yverdon.

Traffic

The community is conveniently technically quite well developed, even though it is off the major thoroughfares. The highway connecting Yverdon- Sud in 1981 opened A1 (Lausanne -Yverdon ) is approximately 3 km from the center. By Postbus course, which runs from Yverdon Suchy, Belmont- sur -Yverdon is connected to the network of public transport.

History

The origin of the place Belmont- sur -Yverdon is located in a castle, which was first mentioned in 1154 as castrum Belli Montis and belonged to the lords of Grandson. At the beginning of the 13th century a settlement known as 1220 burgum Belli Montis, which held a weekly market and was awarded in the 14th century with the city law developed at the castle. The castle and the town of Belmont were the focus of the reign of the same name and formed a small regional center and since 1389 a castle Bailiwick of Savoy. Already in the course of the 15th century but began the decline of the town. Since the 16th century Belmont only had the status of a village.

With the conquest of Vaud by Bern in 1536, Belmont- sur -Yverdon came under the administration of the bailiwick of Yverdon, but made it a Kastlanei with its own Court. After the collapse of the ancien régime, the village belonged from 1798 to 1803 during the Helvetic Republic to the canton of Geneva, who came up then with the enactment of the Act of Mediation in the canton of Vaud. 1798 Belmont- sur -Yverdon was assigned to the district of Yverdon and received in 1803 the status of a district chief town.

Attractions

In the center some characteristic farmhouses from the 17th to 19th centuries have been preserved. The church building dates from 1820. Belmont- sur -Yverdon does not have its own church, it belongs to the parish Gressy. In the Middle Ages Belmont possessed a chapel, it exists, but - like the castle - not any more.