Cudrefin

Cudrefin

Cudrefin [ kydʀəfɛ ] is a municipality in the district Broye Vully in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. The former German place name Guderfi is no longer used today.

Geography

Cudrefin is located on 434 m above sea level. Level, 16 km north-east of the district main town Payerne ( straight line ). The village extends in the plane of the north ridge of Mont Vully, near the south-eastern shore of Lake Neuchâtel, opposite the city of Neuchâtel, the Swiss Plateau. Cudrefin is the northernmost municipality in the canton.

The area of ​​15.8 km ² large municipality area includes a section on the southeast shore of Lake Neuchâtel. The communal land extends southward from the lake through a reed and forest belt in the up to 2 km wide level Marais de Cudrefin. The northeastern border runs along the bottom portion of the Canal de la Broye ( Broye canal between Lake Murten and Lake Neuchâtel ). South of the plane includes the broad ridge southwest of Mont Vully to, which is divided by several valleys and hill crests. The highest point of Cudrefin is 578 m above sea level. M. reached on the edge of the Bois de l' Allou. In the extreme southwest lies the forest Bois de Ville. Here is an up to 70 m high, partly rocky escarpment has formed between the ridge and Lake Neuchâtel. From the municipality surface 1997 7 % was attributable to settlements, 24 % of forest and shrubs, 61% to agriculture and slightly more than 8% was unproductive land ( swamp and reed beds along the Lake of Neuchâtel ). The reed belt is now designated as a nature reserve and bird sanctuary.

To Cudrefin include up to 2001 independent village Champmartin, the hamlet Montet (480 m above sea level. M. ) on the northern slope of the ridge, verse chez Jacot (435 m above sea level. M. ) and Le Moulin (444 m above sea level. M. ) on the village stream Cudrefin that Hofsiedlungen La mammals (436 m above sea level. M. ) on the left bank of the Broye Canal and Pégran (450 m above sea level. M. ) at the foot of Mont Vully as well as some individual farms. Neighboring communities of Cudrefin are Vully -les -Lacs in the canton of Vaud, skin Vully in the canton of Fribourg and ins in the canton of Bern.

Population

With 1427 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012) Cudrefin one of the smaller municipalities in the canton of Vaud. Of the 74.7 % inhabitants are French-speaking, German-speaking and 21.1 % 1.6 % portugiesischsprachig (as of 2000). The population of Cudrefin amounted in 1850 to 740 residents in 1900 to 699 inhabitants ( in each case including Champmartin ). After the population had decreased to 1970 to 571 people, a significant population increase has been registered since then again.

Economy

Cudrefin was until the mid 20th century a predominantly coined by farming village. Thanks to the fertile soil of farming and fruit growing have an important role in the economic structure of the population today. More jobs are available in the local small businesses and especially in the service sector. In Cudrefin there are both small businesses and companies in the construction sector, the computer technology and the construction of agricultural machinery. In recent decades, the village has developed into a residential community. Many workers are commuters who work partly in Neuchâtel.

Tourism

Cudrefin is a recreational and tourist resort on the shores of Lake Neuchâtel. It has a good tourist infrastructure with cottages, campground, a beach bar and two large marinas.

Traffic

The community is conveniently technically quite well developed. It lies on the road from Avenches to Gampelen and the A5 motorway ( Biel- Neuchâtel ). By Postbus course, which runs from Avenches to Cudrefin, the village is connected to the public transport network. Every day, there are also several post bus connections to railway station ins. By the maritime transport system on Lake Neuchâtel Cudrefin has connection with the city of Neuchâtel.

History

The territory of Cudrefin was settled very early. Along the Lake Neuchâtel several settlement sites were examined, which were inhabited since the Neolithic period. There have been rich archaeological finds.

The first documentary mention of the place was already 999 under the name Curlefin. Numerous other names appeared in the later years: Codrufim ( 1184 ), Culdrefin ( 1163 ), Cordefin ( 1214) Cordelfin ( 1215), Cudulfin ( 1228 ), Cudrufin ( 1229 ), Cordulfin (1240 ), first Cudrefin ( 1243 ), after that Codefrin ( 1246) Codulfrin ( 1268 ), Culderphin ( 1269 ), Culdurphi (1270 ), Cudrufin ( 1285), Caudrefin and Cudrifin ( 1300 ), Cudriffin (1477 ) and again in 1668 Cudrefin. The place name is composed from the Late Latin word cortis ( courtyard ) and the Germanic personal name Wulfin.

Since its first mention Cudrefin was owned by the Bishop of Sion. He sold his land in 1246 to Peter of Savoy. Under the House of Savoy rule, the town was developed into a fortified town and the center of a Kastlanei. The town is first mentioned in 1268 in documents; the date of the first award of the town law is unknown, but in 1471 the municipal privileges were renewed. Shortly after 1300 came Cudrefin under the rule of the family of Grandson, 1393 again under the direct management of Savoy.

During the Burgundian Wars ( 1475 ), the town was occupied temporarily by the people of Fribourg. With the conquest of Vaud by Bern in 1536 came Cudrefin under the administration of the Bailiwick of Avenches. 1790 were numerous houses victim to a conflagration. After the collapse of the ancien régime, the place was in 1798 attached to the Canton of Fribourg during the Helvetic Republic. With the enactment of the Act of Mediation in 1803 Cudrefin was re- allocated together with the present-day district of Avenches an exclave of the Canton of Vaud.

Beginning of the 19th century, the city gates and other fortifications were demolished. With the first Jura water correction in 1891 completed a strip territory was recovered on the banks of Lake Neuchâtel through the waters reduction, in which a bird sanctuary was established in 1948. The wide reed belt along the lake, which is still enlarged after the second Jura water correction, is since 1965 owned by the canton. Since 1 January 2002, the hamlet Champ Martin, who previously an independent political community formed to Cudrefin heard.

Attractions

After attachment of the town in the course of the 13th century Cudrefin possessed a circular wall with two gates. This was completely removed in the 19th century. The only remnant of the former fortification is a tower which was converted into a church tower of the neighboring church. On both sides of the main road are stately town and farmhouses dating from the 17th to the 19th century preserved. The Hôtel de Ville (City Hall ) is a new building of 1839. On the main square, built in 1605 Fontaine de la Justice is ( Fountain of Justice ).

On a hill at Montet is the Protestant parish church Saint- Théodule, one erected in the 15th century late Gothic building. In addition, there is a parsonage, which is also built in the 15th century, but was later Baroque style.

The Church of Montet - Cudrefin

The tower of the chapel

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