Bonvillars

Bonvillars

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

Geography

Bonvillars is 475 m above sea level. M., 7 km north- northeast of the district capital Yverdon- les- Bains ( straight line ). The farming village stretches along the foot of the Jura, at the foot of Mont Aubert, around 1.5 km from the shores of Lake Neuchâtel.

The area of ​​7.5 km ² large municipality area comprises a narrow section on the western shore of Lake Neuchâtel, east of the mouth of the Arnon. The communal land extends from the flat lake shore to the north through the valley of the Arnon. North of the village goes to the field in a narrow strip on the partly forested, partly planted with lawns slope up to the ridge of Mont Aubert. This is where having 1,346 m above sea level. M. reached the highest elevation of Bonvillars. A small part of the municipality is located north of the ridge in the catchment area of the river La Vaux, which flows at Vaumarcus in Neuchâtel. At the lower Jura south slope is the nature reserve Chassagne. From the municipality surface 1997 accounted for 5% on settlements, 44 % of forest and shrubs, 50 % to agriculture and slightly less than 1% was unproductive land.

To Bonvillars include some individual farms on the southern slopes of the Jura (Les Vuillerens ) and on the crest of Mont Aubert. The neighboring communities of Bonvillars are in the south Grandson, in the southeast Champagne, east Tévenon, in the north Provence, in the north-northeast Concise, to the northeast Corcelles- près -Concise and to the east Onnens.

Population

With 506 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012) Bonvillars is one of the small communities of the Canton of Vaud. Of the 95.9 % inhabitants are French-speaking, German-speaking 2.3 % and 0.9 % Italian-speaking (as of 2000). The population of Bonvillars amounted in 1850 to 470 residents in 1900 to 515 inhabitants. After a strong migration was recorded until 1960 (270 inhabitants). In recent decades, is again observed a slight upward trend.

Economy

Bonvillars has long been a mainly coined by farming village. Still play the vineyard ( on a slope above the village ), agriculture ( in the lowlands of the Arnon ) and cattle breeding and dairy farming an important role (on the Jurahhöhen ). 1948 Caves of the wine growers de Bonvillars et environs were built to store the wine from the district of Grandson. More jobs are available in some craft shops. On the municipal boundary between Bonvillars and Onnens are 1973 built huge warehouses of Fabriques de tabacs réunies SA.

Traffic

The community is conveniently moderately well developed. It is located 1 km from the main road 5 from Neuchatel to Yverdon. The nearest links to the motorway A5 ( Yverdon- Neuchatel ), which was passed through the municipality and in 2005 the traffic passed, is located about 2.5 km from the center. On 7 November 1859, the railway line was inaugurated in Yverdon - Neuchatel. The station Onnens - Bonvillars lying mostly in the field of Onnens. Bonvillars is also served by bus line from Gorgier to Yverdon.

History

The municipal area of Bonvillars traces of a Roman estate as well as remains of tombs have been found from the Burgundian. The first written mention of the village was carried out in 1100 under the name Binvilar. In the following years numerous other spellings published: Bonus vilar ( 1124 ), Binvillare ( 1148 ) and Bienvilar ( 1154 ). The place name is derived from the Latin words bonus (good) and villare ( hamlet ).

Since the Middle Ages Bonvillars belonged to the rule Grandson, but made it among the nobles of Bonvillars ( since the 12th century witnessed ) a largely independent administrative unit with its own court. After 1476 Grandson was a bailiff under the general rule of Bern and Fribourg. After the collapse of the ancien régime Bonvillars belonged from 1798 to 1803 during the Helvetic Republic to the canton of Geneva, who came up afterwards to the mediation in the canton of Vaud.

Attractions

The Protestant parish church Saint -Nicolas was already mentioned in 1148 as a possession of the abbey in Payerne. The single-nave church has a side chapel of the 15th century. 1532 came the community Bonvillars after the Reformation to the parish Onnens; since 1846 it belongs to the parish of Champagne. To the west of the village is the former mansion La Cour contains buildings from the 15th and 17th centuries. He is since 1856 owned by the municipality, was repeatedly restored and now houses a school and part of the municipality.