Montagny-près-Yverdon
Encyclopedia
Montagny-près-Yverdon is a municipality
in the district of Jura-Nord Vaudois of the canton
of Vaud
in Switzerland
.
Its history goes back to at least the 12th century, but the medieval castle and church no longer exist. The current church, with two bells, was built in 1769. At one time on the Roman road
connecting Yverdon with Sainte-Croix
, it is now on an autoroute
.
Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 5.4% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 4.8% and transportation infrastructure made up 9.9%. Power and water infrastructure as well as other special developed areas made up 2.0% of the area Out of the forested land, all of the forested land area is covered with heavy forests. Of the agricultural land, 56.5% is used for growing crops and 8.5% is pastures, while 4.8% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the village is flowing water.
The municipality was part of the Yverdon District until it was dissolved on 31 August 2006, and Montagny-près-Yverdon became part of the new district of Jura-Nord Vaudois.
The municipal area stretches from the hills around the village, over the Brinaz stream and to the banks of the Orbe
.
of the municipal coat of arms
is Argent, a Crayfish-claw Gules. The crayfish claw is the missing claw from the coat of arms of the municipality of Onnens
and represents the division of the two municipalities.
Most of the population speaks French
(536 or 88.4%) as their first language, with German
being second most common (21 or 3.5%) and Italian
being third (17 or 2.8%).
The age distribution, , in Montagny-près-Yverdon is; 75 children or 11.1% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 85 teenagers or 12.6% are between 10 and 19. Of the adult population, 81 people or 12.0% of the population are between 20 and 29 years old. 93 people or 13.8% are between 30 and 39, 101 people or 15.0% are between 40 and 49, and 111 people or 16.4% are between 50 and 59. The senior population distribution is 68 people or 10.1% of the population are between 60 and 69 years old, 43 people or 6.4% are between 70 and 79, there are 16 people or 2.4% who are between 80 and 89, and there are 2 people or 0.3% who are 90 and older.
, there were 258 people who were single and never married in the village. There were 287 married individuals, 31 widows or widowers and 30 individuals who are divorced.
the average number of residents per living room was 0.6 which is about equal to the cantonal average of 0.61 per room. In this case, a room is defined as space of a housing unit of at least 4 m² (43 sq ft) as normal bedrooms, dining rooms, living rooms, kitchens and habitable cellars and attics. About 58.1% of the total households were owner occupied, or in other words did not pay rent (though they may have a mortgage
or a rent-to-own agreement).
, there were 241 private households in the village, and an average of 2.5 persons per household. There were 71 households that consist of only one person and 26 households with five or more people. Out of a total of 246 households that answered this question, 28.9% were households made up of just one person and there was 1 adult who lived with their parents. Of the rest of the households, there are 64 married couples without children, 88 married couples with children There were 12 single parents with a child or children. There were 5 households that were made up of unrelated people and 5 households that were made up of some sort of institution or another collective housing.
there were 113 single family homes (or 63.1% of the total) out of a total of 179 inhabited buildings. There were 28 multi-family buildings (15.6%), along with 22 multi-purpose buildings that were mostly used for housing (12.3%) and 16 other use buildings (commercial or industrial) that also had some housing (8.9%).
, a total of 229 apartments (93.1% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 15 apartments (6.1%) were seasonally occupied and 2 apartments (0.8%) were empty. , the construction rate of new housing units was 7.4 new units per 1000 residents. The vacancy rate for the village, , was 0%.
The historical population is given in the following chart:
the most popular party was the SP
which received 24.89% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SVP
(23.04%), the Green Party
(14.85%) and the FDP
(9.92%). In the federal election, a total of 191 votes were cast, and the voter turnout
was 45.6%.
the total number of full-time equivalent
jobs was 934. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 18, all of which were in agriculture. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 194 of which 121 or (62.4%) were in manufacturing and 73 (37.6%) were in construction. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 722. In the tertiary sector; 479 or 66.3% were in the sale or repair of motor vehicles, 9 or 1.2% were in the movement and storage of goods, 74 or 10.2% were in a hotel or restaurant, 7 or 1.0% were in the information industry, 30 or 4.2% were the insurance or financial industry, 61 or 8.4% were technical professionals or scientists, and 21 or 2.9% were in health care.
, there were 626 workers who commuted into the village and 239 workers who commuted away. The village is a net importer of workers, with about 2.6 workers entering the village for every one leaving. About 4.6% of the workforce coming into Montagny-près-Yverdon are coming from outside Switzerland. Of the working population, 14.1% used public transportation to get to work, and 60.2% used a private car.
. Of the rest of the population, there were 13 members of an Orthodox church
(or about 2.15% of the population), there was 1 individual who belongs to the Christian Catholic Church
, and there were 37 individuals (or about 6.11% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There were 4 (or about 0.66% of the population) who were Islam
ic. 97 (or about 16.01% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic
or atheist
, and 9 individuals (or about 1.49% of the population) did not answer the question.
). Of the 91 who completed tertiary schooling, 52.7% were Swiss men, 30.8% were Swiss women, 11.0% were non-Swiss men and 5.5% were non-Swiss women.
In the 2009/2010 school year there were a total of 77 students in the Montagny-près-Yverdon school district. In the Vaud cantonal school system, two years of non-obligatory pre-school are provided by the political districts. During the school year, the political district provided pre-school care for a total of 578 children of which 359 children (62.1%) received subsidized pre-school care. The canton's primary school program requires students to attend for four years. There were 43 students in the municipal primary school program. The obligatory lower secondary school program lasts for six years and there were 34 students in those schools.
, there were 53 students in Montagny-près-Yverdon who came from another village, while 107 residents attended schools outside the village.
Municipalities of Switzerland
Communes , also known as municipalities, are the smallest government division in Switzerland, numbering 2,596 . While many have a population of a few hundred citizens, the largest cities such as Zürich or Geneva also have the legal status of municipalities...
in the district of Jura-Nord Vaudois of the canton
Cantons of Switzerland
The 26 cantons of Switzerland are the member states of the federal state of Switzerland. Each canton was a fully sovereign state with its own borders, army and currency from the Treaty of Westphalia until the establishment of the Swiss federal state in 1848...
of Vaud
Vaud
Vaud is one of the 26 cantons of Switzerland and is located in Romandy, the French-speaking southwestern part of the country. The capital is Lausanne. The name of the Canton in Switzerland's other languages are Vaud in Italian , Waadt in German , and Vad in Romansh.-History:Along the lakes,...
in Switzerland
Switzerland
Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....
.
History
Montagny-près-Yverdon is first mentioned around 995-96 as in villa Montaniaco. In 1397 it was mentioned as Montaigny-le-Courbe.Its history goes back to at least the 12th century, but the medieval castle and church no longer exist. The current church, with two bells, was built in 1769. At one time on the Roman road
Roman road
The Roman roads were a vital part of the development of the Roman state, from about 500 BC through the expansion during the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire. Roman roads enabled the Romans to move armies and trade goods and to communicate. The Roman road system spanned more than 400,000 km...
connecting Yverdon with Sainte-Croix
Sainte-Croix, Switzerland
Sainte-Croix is a municipality in the district of Jura-Nord Vaudois in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.-History:Sainte-Croix is first mentioned in 1177 as Sancta Crux. In 1317 it was mentioned as Saint Crueyz. Previously it was known by its German name Heilig Kreuz.-Geography:Sainte-Croix has...
, it is now on an autoroute
Autoroute
Autoroute may refer to:* Controlled-access highway, particularly in French speaking countries* Routing , when routes to wires in a design are automatically assigned...
.
Geography
Montagny-près-Yverdon has an area, , of 3.5 square kilometre. Of this area, 2.46 square kilometre or 69.9% is used for agricultural purposes, while 0.23 square kilometre or 6.5% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 0.79 square kilometre or 22.4% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.02 km² (4.9 acre) or 0.6% is either rivers or lakes.Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 5.4% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 4.8% and transportation infrastructure made up 9.9%. Power and water infrastructure as well as other special developed areas made up 2.0% of the area Out of the forested land, all of the forested land area is covered with heavy forests. Of the agricultural land, 56.5% is used for growing crops and 8.5% is pastures, while 4.8% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the village is flowing water.
The municipality was part of the Yverdon District until it was dissolved on 31 August 2006, and Montagny-près-Yverdon became part of the new district of Jura-Nord Vaudois.
The municipal area stretches from the hills around the village, over the Brinaz stream and to the banks of the Orbe
Orbe (river)
The Orbe is a river of the Rhine basin. It starts in France and flows to Switzerland to finally flow into the river Aar. On the final leg of its course, it takes the name Thièle or Thielle...
.
Coat of arms
The blazonBlazon
In heraldry and heraldic vexillology, a blazon is a formal description of a coat of arms, flag or similar emblem, from which the reader can reconstruct the appropriate image...
of the municipal coat of arms
Coat of arms
A coat of arms is a unique heraldic design on a shield or escutcheon or on a surcoat or tabard used to cover and protect armour and to identify the wearer. Thus the term is often stated as "coat-armour", because it was anciently displayed on the front of a coat of cloth...
is Argent, a Crayfish-claw Gules. The crayfish claw is the missing claw from the coat of arms of the municipality of Onnens
Onnens
Onnens is a municipality in the district of Jura-Nord Vaudois in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.-Geography:Onnens has an area, , of . Of this area, or 41.7% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 49.3% is forested...
and represents the division of the two municipalities.
Demographics
Montagny-près-Yverdon has a population of . , 14.4% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of 8.7%. It has changed at a rate of 6.6% due to migration and at a rate of 3.5% due to births and deaths.Most of the population speaks French
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
(536 or 88.4%) as their first language, with German
German language
German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
being second most common (21 or 3.5%) and Italian
Italian language
Italian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia...
being third (17 or 2.8%).
The age distribution, , in Montagny-près-Yverdon is; 75 children or 11.1% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 85 teenagers or 12.6% are between 10 and 19. Of the adult population, 81 people or 12.0% of the population are between 20 and 29 years old. 93 people or 13.8% are between 30 and 39, 101 people or 15.0% are between 40 and 49, and 111 people or 16.4% are between 50 and 59. The senior population distribution is 68 people or 10.1% of the population are between 60 and 69 years old, 43 people or 6.4% are between 70 and 79, there are 16 people or 2.4% who are between 80 and 89, and there are 2 people or 0.3% who are 90 and older.
, there were 258 people who were single and never married in the village. There were 287 married individuals, 31 widows or widowers and 30 individuals who are divorced.
the average number of residents per living room was 0.6 which is about equal to the cantonal average of 0.61 per room. In this case, a room is defined as space of a housing unit of at least 4 m² (43 sq ft) as normal bedrooms, dining rooms, living rooms, kitchens and habitable cellars and attics. About 58.1% of the total households were owner occupied, or in other words did not pay rent (though they may have a mortgage
Mortgage loan
A mortgage loan is a loan secured by real property through the use of a mortgage note which evidences the existence of the loan and the encumbrance of that realty through the granting of a mortgage which secures the loan...
or a rent-to-own agreement).
, there were 241 private households in the village, and an average of 2.5 persons per household. There were 71 households that consist of only one person and 26 households with five or more people. Out of a total of 246 households that answered this question, 28.9% were households made up of just one person and there was 1 adult who lived with their parents. Of the rest of the households, there are 64 married couples without children, 88 married couples with children There were 12 single parents with a child or children. There were 5 households that were made up of unrelated people and 5 households that were made up of some sort of institution or another collective housing.
there were 113 single family homes (or 63.1% of the total) out of a total of 179 inhabited buildings. There were 28 multi-family buildings (15.6%), along with 22 multi-purpose buildings that were mostly used for housing (12.3%) and 16 other use buildings (commercial or industrial) that also had some housing (8.9%).
, a total of 229 apartments (93.1% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 15 apartments (6.1%) were seasonally occupied and 2 apartments (0.8%) were empty. , the construction rate of new housing units was 7.4 new units per 1000 residents. The vacancy rate for the village, , was 0%.
The historical population is given in the following chart:
Politics
In the 2007 federal electionSwiss federal election, 2007
Elections to the Swiss Federal Assembly, the federal parliament of Switzerland, were held on Sunday, 21 October 2007. In a few cantons, a second round of the elections to the Council of States was held on 11 November, 18 November, and 25 November 2007...
the most popular party was the SP
Social Democratic Party of Switzerland
The Social Democratic Party of Switzerland is the largest centre-left political party in Switzerland....
which received 24.89% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SVP
Swiss People's Party
The Swiss People's Party , also known as the Democratic Union of the Centre , is a conservative political party in Switzerland. Chaired by Toni Brunner, but spearheaded by Christoph Blocher, the party is the largest party in the Federal Assembly, with 58 members of the National Council and 6 of...
(23.04%), the Green Party
Green Party of Switzerland
The Green Party of Switzerland is the fifth-largest party in the National Council of Switzerland, and the largest party that is not represented on the Federal Council.-History:...
(14.85%) and the FDP
FDP.The Liberals
FDP.The Liberals is a classical liberal political party in Switzerland. It is the joint-largest party in the Federal Council, third-largest party in the National Council, and second-largest in the Council of States....
(9.92%). In the federal election, a total of 191 votes were cast, and the voter turnout
Voter turnout
Voter turnout is the percentage of eligible voters who cast a ballot in an election . After increasing for many decades, there has been a trend of decreasing voter turnout in most established democracies since the 1960s...
was 45.6%.
Economy
, Montagny-près-Yverdon had an unemployment rate of 3.4%. , there were 25 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 8 businesses involved in this sector. 213 people were employed in the secondary sector and there were 28 businesses in this sector. 920 people were employed in the tertiary sector, with 90 businesses in this sector. There were 334 residents of the village who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 44.0% of the workforce.the total number of full-time equivalent
Full-time equivalent
Full-time equivalent , is a unit to measure employed persons or students in a way that makes them comparable although they may work or study a different number of hours per week. FTE is often used to measure a worker's involvement in a project, or to track cost reductions in an organization...
jobs was 934. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 18, all of which were in agriculture. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 194 of which 121 or (62.4%) were in manufacturing and 73 (37.6%) were in construction. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 722. In the tertiary sector; 479 or 66.3% were in the sale or repair of motor vehicles, 9 or 1.2% were in the movement and storage of goods, 74 or 10.2% were in a hotel or restaurant, 7 or 1.0% were in the information industry, 30 or 4.2% were the insurance or financial industry, 61 or 8.4% were technical professionals or scientists, and 21 or 2.9% were in health care.
, there were 626 workers who commuted into the village and 239 workers who commuted away. The village is a net importer of workers, with about 2.6 workers entering the village for every one leaving. About 4.6% of the workforce coming into Montagny-près-Yverdon are coming from outside Switzerland. Of the working population, 14.1% used public transportation to get to work, and 60.2% used a private car.
Religion
From the , 146 or 24.1% were Roman Catholic, while 317 or 52.3% belonged to the Swiss Reformed ChurchSwiss Reformed Church
The Reformed branch of Protestantism in Switzerland was started in Zürich by Huldrych Zwingli and spread within a few years to Basel , Bern , St...
. Of the rest of the population, there were 13 members of an Orthodox church
Orthodox Christianity
The term Orthodox Christianity may refer to:* the Eastern Orthodox Church and its various geographical subdivisions...
(or about 2.15% of the population), there was 1 individual who belongs to the Christian Catholic Church
Christian Catholic Church of Switzerland
The Christian Catholic Church of Switzerland is the Swiss member church of the Union of Utrecht, also known as Old Catholic Church, originally founded by the jansenists, with a later influx of discontented Catholics following their disappointment with the First Vatican Council. It has 14,000...
, and there were 37 individuals (or about 6.11% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There were 4 (or about 0.66% of the population) who were Islam
Islam
Islam . The most common are and . : Arabic pronunciation varies regionally. The first vowel ranges from ~~. The second vowel ranges from ~~~...
ic. 97 (or about 16.01% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic
Agnosticism
Agnosticism is the view that the truth value of certain claims—especially claims about the existence or non-existence of any deity, but also other religious and metaphysical claims—is unknown or unknowable....
or atheist
Atheism
Atheism is, in a broad sense, the rejection of belief in the existence of deities. In a narrower sense, atheism is specifically the position that there are no deities...
, and 9 individuals (or about 1.49% of the population) did not answer the question.
Education
In Montagny-près-Yverdon about 227 or (37.5%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 91 or (15.0%) have completed additional higher education (either university or a FachhochschuleFachhochschule
A Fachhochschule or University of Applied Sciences is a German type of tertiary education institution, sometimes specialized in certain topical areas . Fachhochschulen were founded in Germany and later adopted by Austria, Liechtenstein, Switzerland and Greece...
). Of the 91 who completed tertiary schooling, 52.7% were Swiss men, 30.8% were Swiss women, 11.0% were non-Swiss men and 5.5% were non-Swiss women.
In the 2009/2010 school year there were a total of 77 students in the Montagny-près-Yverdon school district. In the Vaud cantonal school system, two years of non-obligatory pre-school are provided by the political districts. During the school year, the political district provided pre-school care for a total of 578 children of which 359 children (62.1%) received subsidized pre-school care. The canton's primary school program requires students to attend for four years. There were 43 students in the municipal primary school program. The obligatory lower secondary school program lasts for six years and there were 34 students in those schools.
, there were 53 students in Montagny-près-Yverdon who came from another village, while 107 residents attended schools outside the village.
External links
- Montagny-près-Yverdon website (French or German)