Cronay

Cronay

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

Geography

Cronay is located at 626 meters above sea level. M., 5 km east-southeast of the district capital Yverdon- les- Bains ( straight line ). The scattered village extends on a plateau in the northern Molassehügelland Vaud Mittelland, west of the Valley of Mentue.

The area of ​​6.6 km ² large municipality area includes a portion of the hill country between Lake Neuchâtel and the Broyetal. The main part of the village is occupied by the plateau of Cronay ( at Les Rapes 663 meters above sea level. M. ). To the northeast, the slightly lower plateau of La Crause ( 575 m above sea level. M. ) adjoins. These plateaus are bounded on the east by the valley of the Mentue, on the west by the valley of Cuarny. The Mentue, which forms the eastern border, flows through a deep V-shaped valley, on the edge of the caves Fours de la Baumaz are. To the west of the village lies the forest hill Le Signal, 666 m above sea level. M. the highest elevation of the community. In the south, the boundary runs along the little valley of the Ruisseau du Lin. From the municipality surface 1997 accounted for 5% on settlements, 33 % of forest and shrubs, 61% to agriculture and slightly less than 1% was unproductive land.

To Cronay include several small Hofsiedlungen and individual farms. Neighboring communities of Cronay are Donneloye, Orzens, Ursins, Pomy, Cuarny and Yvonand.

Population

With 327 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012) Cronay one of the small communities of the Canton of Vaud. Of the 97.1 % inhabitants are French-speaking, German-speaking 1.3 % and 0.7 % Italian-speaking (as of 2000). The population of Cronay amounted in 1850 to 561 residents in 1900 to 470 inhabitants. Thereafter, due to high levels of emigration to 1980 recorded a decrease by 50% to 242 inhabitants; since a slight population increase was observed again.

Economy

Cronay was until the second half of the 20th century, mainly coined by farming village. Even today, the farming, fruit growing and cattle breeding have an important role in the economic structure of the population. For more jobs in our local small industry and the services, including a company that specializes in computer technology. There is a small power plant on the Mentue. In recent decades, Cronay has developed thanks to its attractive location into a residential community. Many employed persons are therefore commuters who work mainly in Yverdon.

Traffic

The community is conveniently technically quite well developed. It lies on the main road from Yverdon to Moudon. The highway connecting Yverdon- Sud in 1981 opened A1 (Lausanne -Yverdon ) is about 5 km from the center. By Postbus course, which runs from Yverdon Thierrens, Cronay is connected to the public transport network.

History

The earliest evidence of settlement of the municipality of Cronay are graves from the Burgundian. The first written mention of the village was carried out in 1142 under the name Crosnai. Later, the names Cronai ( 1160 ) and Cronex appeared in the 14th century. The name goes back to the Roman family names Cronius.

Since the 12th century Cronay formed a government, which was under the lords of Saint -Martin- du- Chêne. In the late Middle Ages, the rule Cronay whose castle on the hill Le Signal stood at the edge of the village, was split into three parts. With the conquest of Vaud by Bern in 1536 Cronay came under the administration of the bailiwick of Yverdon. 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

In the middle of the upper part of the village, the church, which was consecrated before the Reformation, Saint- Maurice is. In the center some stately farmhouses dating from the 17th to 19th centuries have been preserved. On the hill Le Signal are remains of walls of built in the first half of the 13th century castle Castellion.