Cremin
Cremin
Cremin is a municipality in the district Broye Vully the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.
Geography
Cremin is on 639 m above sea level. M., above Lucens, 12.5 km southwest of the district town Payerne ( straight line ). The farming village extends on a plateau west of the center Broyetals, in the Vaud Mittelland.
The area of 1.6 km ² large municipality area includes a portion of the Molassehügellandes between the Valley of Mentue and the middle Broyetal. The main part of the area is occupied by a high plateau, above at an average altitude of 640 m. M. lies. The parish boundary runs mostly on the ridge above the steep drop to Broyetal (to the east ) and the Vallon des Vaux ( in the south). South of the village, the forest height Forêt de l' Envuissel is (656 m above sea level. M. ). On the hill of Petit Cret north of the village is 670 meters above sea level. Reached the highest point of M. Cremin. The former marshy area Grand Marais was drained during the Second World War. From the municipality surface 1997 6 % came from settlements, 23 % of forest and shrubs, 70 % to agriculture and slightly less than 1% was unproductive land.
Cremin to include several individual farms. Neighboring communities of Cremin are Lucens and Forel -sur -Lucens in the canton of Vaud and Surpierre in the Canton of Fribourg.
Population
With 56 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012) Cremin is one of the smallest municipalities in the canton of Vaud. Of the 94.1 % inhabitants are French-speaking and German-speaking 5.9 % (as of 2000). The population of Cremin was in 1850 still 101 inhabitants, 1900 to 68 inhabitants. Thereafter, a further decrease to 45 inhabitants was recorded until 1980; Since then, the population has increased slightly again.
Economy
Cremin still lives mainly from agriculture, especially from farming, fruit-growing and cattle breeding. Outside the primary sector only a few jobs are available. A Hofeigentümer has created with the construction of a Swingolfanlage a second pillar in the service sector. The steady decline in population led in 1933 to the closure of the village school. Due to a very restrictive zone plan to date, no new residential buildings were created.
Traffic
The community is located off the major thoroughfares on a road from Lucens after Surpierre. By Postbus course, which runs from Granges- près- Marnand after Cheiry, Cremin is connected to the network of public transport.
History
The first written mention of the village was carried out in 1365 under the name Cremyn. The place name derives from Cret -Mare ( in the meaning of crêt sur le marais, slight elevation in or on the edge of a bog ), from which first Cremar, then developed Cremin.
Since its first mention Cremin was part of the Nobles of Lucens, which in turn was under the Bishop of Lausanne. With the conquest of Vaud by Bern in 1536, Cremin came under the administration of the bailiwick Moudon. 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 Moudon. Cremin formerly belonged to the parish Curtilles, which was merged with Lucens.
Attractions
Cremin has since 1812 a village oven; The building was last restored in 1993.