Montmagny, Switzerland
Montmagny was a municipality in the district Broye Vully in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. She went on in the new community Vully -les -Lacs on July 1, 2011.
Geography
Montmagny is located at 565 m above sea level. Level, 13 km north-east of the district main town Payerne ( straight line ). The village extends along the crest of the ridge between Lake Neuchâtel and Lake Morat, a scenic location about 130 m above the Broyeebene, the Swiss Plateau.
The area of 3.8 km ² large municipality area includes a portion west of Lake Murten. The northern part of the municipality lies on the Molassehöhenrücken of Montmagny, the south-western spur of Mount Vully. At the edge of the village is 572 meters above sea level. M. reached the highest point of the municipality. To the north, the area extends into the Bois Rosset in the headwaters of the village stream of Cudrefin; in the West has Montmagny share of the Bois de Charmontel. In a narrow strip of the communal land extends south into the wide, intensively farmed area of the Broyeebene and extends over the canalized rivers of the Petite Glane and the Broye up to the area behind the Arbogne. From the municipality surface 1997 3 % was attributable to settlements, 19 % of forest and shrubs, 76 % to agriculture and slightly less than 2% was unproductive land.
To Montmagny include the hamlet of La Fenette (540 m above sea level. M. ) on the southern slope below the village as well as some individual farms. Neighboring communities of Montmagny were Cudrefin, Bellerive, Constantine, Avenches, Villars -le- Grand and Chabrey.
Population
With 178 inhabitants ( 31 December 2010) Montmagny was one of the small communities of the Canton of Vaud. Of the residents, 80.8 % are French-speaking, German-speaking and 12.8% 2.6% portugiesischsprachig (as of 2000). The population of Montmagny in 1860 amounted to 201 residents in 1900 to 191 inhabitants. After the population had decreased to 1990 to 129 persons, a slight increase in population was registered again since then.
Economy
Montmagny was until the second half of the 20th century, mainly coined by farming village. Even today, the farming and fruit growing have an important role in the economic structure of the population. On the slope south of the village there is a small wine region. More jobs are in small local manufacturing and services available. In recent decades, the village has developed thanks to its attractive location also become a residential community. Some of the working population commuters who work in the surrounding larger towns.
Traffic
The community is conveniently technically quite well developed, even though it is off the major thoroughfares on a road from Salavaux after Chabrey. The motorway connection Avenches off the A1 ( Lausanne- Bern ) is around 7 km from the town center. By Postbus course, which runs from Avenches to Cudrefin, Montmagny is connected to the public transport network.
History
The first written mention of the village in the 13th century under the name Mons Manniaco; 1458 appeared the name Montmagniel. The place name derives from the Latin Mons Magniacus, probably lived at the height of Montmagny a family surnamed Magn (i ) us.
Montmagny was in the Middle Ages to the Savoyard Kastlanei Cudrefin. With the conquest of Vaud by Bern in 1536, the village came under the administration of the Bailiwick of Avenches. After the collapse of the ancien régime Montmagny in 1798 affiliated to the Canton of Fribourg during the Helvetic Republic. With the enactment of the Act of Mediation in 1803 the village was re- allocated together with the present-day district of Avenches an exclave of the Canton of Vaud. Until 1811 Montmagny formed with the neighboring villages of Bellerive and Constantine a larger municipality. Currently (2005) runs a preliminary study for the merger of Montmagny with Constantine, Bellerive and Vallamand.
Attractions
As the symbol of Montmagny applies the water tower. Montmagny does not have its own church, it belongs to the parish of Constantine. In the center some stately farmhouses dating from the 17th to 19th centuries have been preserved.