Lovatens
Lovatens
Lovatens is a municipality in the district Broye Vully the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.
Geography
Lovatens is located on 712 m above sea level. M., 15.5 km southwest of the district town Payerne ( straight line ). The farming village extends to a promising terrain terrace on the upper right flank of the Broye, in the eastern canton of Vaud Mittelland.
The area of 3.5 km ² large municipality area includes a portion of the Molassehügellandes between the Broyetal and the upper reaches of the Glane. The main part of the territory is occupied ( approximately 700 m above sea level. M. ) from the broad terrace of Lovatens. To the west, the propensity to Broyetal lowers back and is divided by two tiny valley that supply their water the Ruisseau des Vaux, a right-hand side of the brook Broye. This stream, which runs in a deep cut into the hillside erosion valley, at the same time forms the western boundary of the parish. To the east of the municipality extends to the floor Forest Hills Bois de Verrey (up to 800 m above sea level. M. ) and reached on the broad height Champ Liamon 810 m above sea level. M. the highest point of Lovatens. From the municipality surface 1997 3 % was attributable to settlements, 17 % of forest and woody plants and 80 % to agriculture.
To Lovatens include several individual farms. Neighboring communities of Lovatens are Brenles, Sarzens, Curtilles, Dompierre and Prévonloup in the Canton of Vaud and Billens - Hennens in the Canton of Fribourg.
Population
With 128 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012) Lovatens one of the small communities of the Canton of Vaud. Of the 92.7 % inhabitants are French-speaking, German-speaking 4.6 % and 2.0 % in English (as of 2000). The population of Lovatens amounted in 1900 to 256 inhabitants. Thereafter, until 1980 due to strong migration, a decrease of around 60 % to 103 inhabitants recorded; Since then, the population increased, however, began to increase considerably.
Economy
Lovatens 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. More jobs are in small local manufacturing and services available. With the construction of some houses in the last decades the village has also developed into a residential community. Some employed persons are therefore commuters who work in the surrounding larger towns.
Traffic
The community is located off the major thoroughfares, but is easily accessible from the main road of Lucens to Romont. By Postbus course, which runs from Moudon to Romont, Lovatens is connected to the public transport network.
History
The municipal area some remains have been found from the Roman period. The first written mention of the village was carried out in 996 under the name Lovatingis in a charter of the monastery of Saint- Maurice. In the 13th century the name Lovartens appeared, and until 1900 the spelling Lovattens was often used. The place name probably goes back to the Burgundian personal names Laude forest and means for the people of the forest Laude. Other sources attribute the origin of the place name from the Latin word lupus ( wolf).
With the conquest of Vaud by Bern in 1536 Lovatens 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.
Attractions
Lovatens has a small chapel, a village school house with bell tower and some characteristic farmhouses from the 18th and 19th centuries.