Bioley-Magnoux

Bioley- Magnoux

Bioley- Magnoux is a municipality in the district of Jura-Nord Vaudois in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. The name suffix Magnoux used to distinguish the community Bioley -Orjulaz.

Geography

Bioley- Magnoux is located on 573 m above sea level. M., 8 km south-east of the district capital Yverdon- les- Bains ( straight line ). The village street line extends on a terrace on the eastern flank of the Mentue, Molassehügelland in the northern Vaud Mittelland.

The area of ​​4.3 km ² large municipality area includes a portion of the hill country between the Orbeebene and Broye. The western part of the area occupied by the Talniederung the Mentue and the opening out of the west Sauteru. In a narrow tip Bioley- Magnoux ranges on the western side of the valley up to the farm La Cerniaz ( 556 m above sea level. M. ). To the east extends the communal land on the slope and the terrace of Bioley- Magnoux, to the north by the valley of the brook Les Vernettes, bounded on the south by that of Augine, to the height of a hill in the Bois de la Faye, where 715 m above sea. M. the highest point of the municipality is reached. From the municipality surface 1997 6 % came from settlements, 27 % of forest and shrubs, 66% to agriculture and slightly more than 1% was unproductive land.

To Bioley- Magnoux include some individual farms. The neighboring communities of Bioley- Magnoux are in the southwest Oppens, in the northwest Orzens, in the north Donneloye, in the east and in the south Montanaire Ogens.

Population

With 152 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012) Bioley- Magnoux is one of the small communities of the Canton of Vaud. Of the 92.9% inhabitants are French-speaking, German-speaking 5.3 % and 1.2 % portugiesischsprachig (as of 2000). The population of Bioley- Magnoux amounted in 1850 to 268 residents in 1900 to 293 inhabitants. Thereafter, a decrease by more than 50 % to 143 inhabitants was recorded due to high levels of emigration until 1980; Since then, the population has increased slightly again.

Economy

Bioley- Magnoux still lives mainly from agriculture, especially from agriculture and animal husbandry. Outside the primary sector there are relatively few jobs in the village. From the Middle Ages to the 20th century at the Mentue were several mills, saw mills and tanneries in operation. In recent decades, Bioley- Magnoux has gradually developed into a residential community. Many employed persons are therefore commuters who work mainly in Yverdon.

Traffic

The community is located off the major thoroughfares. The main access is from Donneloye. By Postbus course, which runs from Bercher after Thierrens, Bioley- Magnoux is connected to the network of public transport.

History

Earliest evidence of a settlement of the area are graves from the early Middle Ages. The first written mention of the village was carried out in 1228 under the name Biolai. Later, the names Bioley- Magnou and Bioley- Magnoud published. Bioley is derived from the French word Boulaie ( Birch Grove ), Magnoux goes back to the Latin word magnus (large).

Bioley- Magnoux made ​​since the Middle Ages, a rule that was created in 1225 by separating the reign of Saint- Martin. The rule was bought in 1246 by Peter of Savoy and passed in the episode as a fief to the Lords of Bioley. The rule learned in the course of time, numerous changes of ownership; 1359-1608 it belonged to the de Goumoëns family. To the castle is a small castle town has developed in the 13th century.

With the conquest of Vaud by Bern in 1536 Bioley- Magnoux 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 was assigned to the district of Yverdon.

Attractions

The present church of Bioley- Magnoux was built in 1825 and restored in the 1980s. The castle on a hill above the Mentue comes in its core from the 12th century, but was rebuilt and restored several times later; 1635 a small guard tower was added. Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, the castle went to his quarters before he left early June 1476 the Battle of Murten. The over time become dilapidated dungeon collapsed in 1890 and was demolished in the sequence. A comprehensive restoration was carried out in 1972. Today the castle is privately owned and is not accessible to the public; same time it is the seat of the Jonas Foundation. From the former castle town of only individual remains of the fortifications are visible.

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