Henniez

Henniez

Henniez is a municipality in the district Broye Vully the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. The village is internationally known for the eponymous mineral Henniez.

Geography

Henniez is located on 484 m above sea level. M., 10 km south-southwest of the district main town Payerne ( straight line ). The village is located on the eastern edge of the Broyetals, at the entrance to the erosion valley of Trémeule, in the eastern canton of Vaud Mittelland.

The area of ​​2.6 km ² large municipality area includes a portion in the middle Broyetal. The western boundary runs along the canalized Broye the midst of a little more than 1 km wide flat valley plain. From here, the communal land extends eastward to the subsequent Molassehöhen in which the Trémeule, the village stream Henniez, an erosion valley has dug. Your flows to the water from the mineral springs from a Seitentälchen. Above the building of the Anciens Bains de Henniez is 610 m above sea level. M. reached the highest point of Henniez. The northern boundary is formed by the creek Vauban, also with an erosion valley. From the municipality surface 1997 13 % came from settlements, 23 % of forest and shrubs, 60 % to agriculture and a little less than 4% was unproductive land.

To Henniez include some individual farms. Neighboring communities of Henniez are Valbroye and Villarzel, in the canton of Vaud and of Villeneuve in the Canton of Fribourg.

Population

With 276 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012) Henniez is one of the small communities of the Canton of Vaud. Of the 94.4 % inhabitants are French-speaking, German-speaking 3.9 % and 0.9 % Italian-speaking (as of 2000). The population of Henniez amounted in 1900 to 261 inhabitants. Since 1960 (276 inhabitants), the population has decreased slightly.

Economy

Henniez has long been a predominantly coined by agriculture village. Today, however, the farming, fruit growing and cattle breeding have only a marginal role in the occupational structure of the population.

The well-known to the Romans mineral springs, which were also used under the Bernese rule, gained more importance in 1880, when at the instigation of the physician V. Borel a seaside hotel was built. The bathing helped Henniez the late 19th and early 20th century to the Switzerland -wide notoriety. With the decline of seaside tourism during the 20th century, the spa hotel was closed; today there is no more bathing. Another economic boom there was but with the commercialization of mineral water bottling since 1905. Henniez The mineral water was the best-selling mineral water in Switzerland and the sources Minérales Henniez SA, as the company was called last, the most important mineral water producer in Switzerland. In 2007 the company was taken over by the Swiss food giant Nestlé and merged with Nestlé Waters (Suisse ) SA.

Traffic

The community is easily accessible via. It lies on the relatively busy main road 1 from Lausanne to Bern via Payerne, which was the main axis of Bern in Switzerland, the West before the highway construction. Through a local bypass the village core is relieved of the transit traffic. On August 25, 1876, the railway line Payerne -Moudon was taken with a station in Henniez in operation.

History

The story of Henniez is strongly influenced by the local sources. These were discovered during the Roman occupation of Helvetia around 200 AD. The Romans introduced the spring water in aqueducts to baths in Aventicum, today Avenches, then the capital of Roman Switzerland. With the fall of the Roman Empire ended, the management of resources and the baths disappeared. Despite a history that dates back to antiquity, the first documentary mention of the place is not set to the year 1380 under the name back Ennyt. Later, the names Enny ( 1578) appeared, Ignie (1668) Ingniez (1781 ) and Igny in the 18th century. The place name probably comes from Ennius, a Roman landowner who farmed an estate there.

In the Middle Ages Henniez belonged to the rule Lucens. With the conquest of Vaud by Bern in 1536, the village came under the administration of Kastlanei Lucens in the Bailiwick Moudon. After the collapse of the ancien régime Henniez 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 Payerne.

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