Villars-le-Grand VD

Geschichte

Villars-le-Grand is a former municipality in the district of Broye-Vully in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.The municipalities of Bellerive, Chabrey, Constantine, Montmagny, Mur, Vallamand and Villars-le-Grand merged on 1 July 2011 into the new municipality of Vully-les-Lacs.HistoryVillars-le-Grand is first mentioned in 1246 as Uilar.GeographyVillars-le-Grand has an area, of 4.2km2. Of this area, 3.68km2 or 87.6% is used for agricultural purposes, while 0.13km2 or 3.1% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 0.35km2 or 8.3% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.08km2 or 1.9% is either rivers or lakes.Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 2.9% and transportation infrastructure made up 5.2%. Out of the forested land, 1.7% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.4% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 77.4% is used for growing crops and 7.9% is pastures, while 2.4% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is flowing water.The municipality was part of the Avenches District until it was dissolved on 31 August 2006, and Villars-le-Grand became part of the new district of Broye-Vully.