L'Abbaye

Geschichte

L'Abbaye is a municipality in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland, located in the Jura-Nord Vaudois district in the Vallée de Joux. It takes its name from Lac de Joux Abbey, a Premonstratensian monastery.HistoryL'Abbaye was created as an independent municipality in 1571 from the municipality of Le Lieu.GeographyL'Abbaye has an area, of 31.88km2. Of this area, 10.83km2 or 34.0% is used for agricultural purposes, while 19.35km2 or 60.7% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 1.17km2 or 3.7% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.31km2 or 1.0% is either rivers or lakes and 0.25km2 or 0.8% is unproductive land.Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 1.9% and transportation infrastructure made up 1.4%. Out of the forested land, 54.2% of the total land area is heavily forested and 6.5% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 0.0% is used for growing crops and 9.3% is pastures and 24.7% is used for alpine pastures. All the water in the municipality is in lakes.The municipality was part of the La Vallée District until it was dissolved on 31 August 2006, and L'Abbaye became part of the new district of Jura-Nord Vaudois.The municipality is located on the eastern shore of the Lac de Joux at an elevation of between 1000m and 1600m. It is located at the heart of the vallé de Joux in the Jura. It includes also the hamlets of Les Bioux and du Pont.