Mézery-près-Donneloye

Mézery -près- Donneloye was a municipality in the district of Jura-Nord Vaudois in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. On 1 January 2008, the merger of Mézery -près- Donneloye with Donneloye and Goossens to the new community Donneloye.

Geography

Mézery -près- Donneloye is located on 625 m above sea level. M., 8 km east-southeast of the district capital Yverdon- les- Bains ( straight line ). The farming village extends to the height of the valley east of Mentue, Molassehügelland in the northern Vaud Mittelland.

The area of ​​the former 1.9 km ² large municipality area includes a portion of the hill country between Lake Neuchâtel and the Broyetal. The communal land stretched on the hills between the deep valley of the Mentue the west and the Talniederung the creek Flonzel in the east. On the Saumont, a hill on the southern border of the area is 680 m above sea level. M. the highest point of Mézery -près- Donneloye achieved. From the municipality surface 1997 4 % came from settlements, 10 % of forest and woody plants and 86 % to agriculture.

Neighboring communities of Mézery -près- Donneloye were Donneloye, Molondin and Prahins.

Population

With 78 inhabitants ( end of 2007) Mézery -près- Donneloye was one of the smallest municipalities in the canton of Vaud. Of the 92.7 % inhabitants are French-speaking and German-speaking 7.3 % (as of 2000). The population of Mézery -près- Donneloye amounted in 1900 to 111 inhabitants. After the population had decreased to 1970 by more than two-thirds to 36 people, a significant population increase has been registered since then again.

Economy

Mézery -près- Donneloye still lives mainly from agriculture, especially from agriculture and from the orchards. Outside the primary sector there are no other jobs in the village.

Traffic

The village is located off the major thoroughfares, yet is within easy reach of Donneloye. By Postbus course, which runs from Yverdon Thierrens, Mézery -près- Donneloye is connected to the network of public transport.

History

The first written mention of the village was carried out in 1224 under the name Maiserie. In the period following the spellings Meysiriez, Maysiriez and Maysery published. The place name comes from the Roman personal name Masirius.

Mézery -près- Donneloye made ​​since the Middle Ages its own little rule. With the conquest of Vaud by Bern in 1536, the village came under the administration of the Bailiwick of Yverdon. After the collapse of the ancien régime Mézery -près- Donneloye 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. Today Mézery -près- Donneloye uses the administrative and commercial infrastructure of the neighboring village Donneloye.