Rennaz

Rennaz is a municipality in the district of Aigle in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.

Geography

Rennaz is located on 377 m above sea level. M., 8 kilometers north- west of the district town Aigle ( straight line ). The village is located in the wide valley east of the Rhone, near the shores of Lake Geneva, at the western foot of the Mont d' Arvel the Vaud Alps.

The area of ​​2.2 km ² large municipality area includes a portion of the Rhone Valley. The communal land extends only the flat part of Rhôneebene and ranges in the east to the railway line in the north- east to the channelized reaches of the creek Eau Froide. The highest point of Rennaz is 380 m above sea level. M. in the plain. From the municipality surface 1997 26 % came from settlements, 1% of the forest and woody plants, 71 % in agriculture and somewhat less than 2% was unproductive land.

To Rennaz include some isolated farms in the Rhôneebene. Neighboring communities of Rennaz are Villeneuve, Noville and Roche.

Population

With 731 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012) Rennaz one of the smaller municipalities in the canton of Vaud. Of the 87.1 % inhabitants are French-speaking, German-speaking 3.7 % and 3.5 % Italian-speaking (as of 2000). The population of Rennaz amounted in 1900 to 167 inhabitants. During the 20th century, the population remained fairly constant. Only since 1980 (222 inhabitants), a rapid population growth was associated with almost a tripling of the population recorded in 20 years.

Economy

Rennaz was until the second half of the 20th century, mainly coined by farming village. Even today, agriculture and fruit growing in the Rhôneebene a certain role in the occupational structure of the population. More jobs are in small local manufacturing and services available. North of the village near the motorway, the last few years, a commercial zone. In recent decades, the village has developed into a residential community. Many working population commuters who work mainly in the Vevey-Montreux region.

Traffic

The community is a very good transport developed. She lay on the main road 9, which runs from Lausanne Montreux via the Valais. With the construction of the A9 motorway opened in 1970 (Lausanne -Sion ) on the one hand, a local local bypass the former airfield of Rennaz was created, on the other hand lifted. The nearest links to the A9 road is just 1 km away from the town center. By Postbus course, which runs from Villeneuve to Vouvry, Rennaz is connected to the network of public transport.

History

The first written mention of the village was carried out in 1255 under the name Raina. Later, the names Reyna ( 1272 ), Renna ( 1276), Reynaz ( 1420 ) and Reyne ( 1542) appeared. The place name is probably derived from the old French word raine ( frog).

Since the Middle Ages Rennaz was under the Counts of Savoy. With the conquest of domination Aigle by Bern in 1476, the village came under the administration of the government of Aigle. After the collapse of the ancien régime Rennaz 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 Aigle. It was not until 1834 Rennaz was an independent political community after the separation of Noville.

Coat of arms

Description: Black and Gold shared with an upright red gezungten fox.

Attractions

At the southern exit of the village stands the Castle Grand Clos, which goes back in its origins to the Middle Ages and was during the reign Bernese seat of a governor. From 1760 to 1763 the Grand Clos has been completely rebuilt as a pleasure palace. At the rectangular main building, the servants' quarters and the outbuildings are grown such that a beautiful courtyard was born.