Avenches () is a Swiss

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

in the canton of

Vaud Vaud ( ; french: (Canton de) Vaud, ; german: (Kanton) Waadt, or ), more formally the canton of Vaud, is one of the 26 cantons forming the Swiss Confederation. It is composed of ten districts and its capital city is Lausanne. Its coat of arms b ...

, located in the district of Broye-Vully.

History

The roots of Avenches go back to the Celts. A tribe of

Helvetian Helvetia () is the female national personification of Switzerland, officially ''Confoederatio Helvetica,'' the Swiss Confederation. The allegory is typically pictured in a flowing gown, with a spear and a shield emblazoned with the Swiss flag ...

s had built a settlement on the hills of Bois de Châtel, south of the later

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settlement. Nearby the Helvetii seem to have had their capital on

Mont Vully Mont Vully (653 m; in German also known as ''Wistenlacherberg''''MontVully''
hls-dhs-dss.ch) is a

as shown in recent archaeological excavation. The canal-La Broye-which joins Lac Morat to

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is thought to be Roman in origin. The establishment of the Roman settlement of

Aventicum Aventicum was the largest town and capital of Roman Switzerland (Helvetia or Civitas Helvetiorum). Its remains are beside the modern town of Avenches. The city was probably created ''ex nihilo'' in the early 1st century AD, as the capital of ...

, which became the capital of the province, took place around 15-13 B.C. The name comes from the Helvetian spring goddess Aventia. After patronage by the emperor Vespasian, Aventicum soon developed into a blooming commercial center with over 20,000 inhabitants. The town was granted colonia status-a retirement location for legionaries- although the built up area of the town occupied only a fraction of the walled area -the walls are some 5.6 kilometers in length. The walls were clearly a statement of status rather than being a practical defensive system. Excavations have revealed the detail of the theatre and major temple complex dedicated to the "genius" of Helvetia-Roman Switzerland. One column of the temple stands as the "cigognier"- formerly a nesting site for storks. Other parts of the city still visible are the amphitheatre which includes a later tower now housing the Professor Hans Bogli museum, the baths, the walls, two of the entrances gates, a smaller temple and part of a place building. Excavated but reburied is much of the Roman city. This part of Switzerland was invaded by the Alamanni tribe in the 280's who settled the German speaking parts of Switzerland giving the area its characteristic dialect of German. Rome never really held the area again and after the fall of Rome in the 5th century, a much smaller settlement was built on the former acropolis of the by now abandoned Roman town. The theatre had a short life as a separate defended area. Throughout this period, the town remained the seat of a bishopric and had at least two churches (Saint-Martin and Saint-Symphorian). When the bishop moved his seat to

Lausanne , neighboring_municipalities= Bottens, Bretigny-sur-Morrens, Chavannes-près-Renens, Cheseaux-sur-Lausanne, Crissier, Cugy, Écublens, Épalinges, Évian-les-Bains (FR-74), Froideville, Jouxtens-Mézery, Le Mont-sur-Lausanne, Lugrin (FR ...

in the sixth century, the decline of the former Roman city was complete. In 1074, the Bishop of Lausanne, Burkhard von Oltigen founded a new city on the site and named it Adventica, which became Avenche in 1518. He built the tower on the edge of the Roman amphitheatre which now houses the museum. In the 11th century, it was surrounded by a wall, and it received city rights in 1259. A German name for the town did not appear until the 13th century, and it is neither a translation of the

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, nor a Germanized form of the French. In 1266 the form ''Wibilsburg'' appears, and then ''Wipelspurg'' (1302), ''Wibelspurg'' (1458), ''Wiblispurg'' (1476), ''Wiflispurg'' (1548), and ''Wiflisburg'' (1577). This is derived from the personal name ''Wibili''. Avenches is first mentioned in 1518 as ''Avenche''. The town made a treaty in 1239 with

Fribourg , neighboring_municipalities= Düdingen, Givisiez, Granges-Paccot, Marly, Pierrafortscha, Sankt Ursen, Tafers, Villars-sur-Glâne , twintowns = Rueil-Malmaison (France) , website = www.ville-fribourg.ch , Location of , Location of () () ...

and one in 1353 with

Murten Murten (German) or Morat (French, ; frp, Morât ) is a bilingual municipality and a city in the See district of the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland. It is located on the southern shores of Lake Morat (also known as Lake Murten). Morat is si ...

Ernest Failloubaz - Avenches 7 Oktober 1910 - Blériot

With the Bernese conquest of Vaud in 1536, Avenches came under Bernese domination. In 1798, it became part of the Helvetic canton of Fribourg. In 1801, the population pushed for incorporation into the

canton of Léman Léman was the name of a canton of the Helvetic Republic from 1798 to 1803, corresponding to the territory of modern Vaud. A former subject territory of Bern, Vaud had been independent for only four months in 1798 as the Lemanic Republic before i ...

in the Helvetic Republic. With the mediation of

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in 1803, Avenches became part of the canton of Vaud and capital of its district. In 1826 a colony of

Jews Jews ( he, יְהוּדִים, , ) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The ...

from

Alsace Alsace (, ; ; Low Alemannic German/ gsw-FR, Elsàss ; german: Elsass ; la, Alsatia) is a cultural region and a territorial collectivity in eastern France, on the west bank of the upper Rhine next to Germany and Switzerland. In 2020, it had ...

settled in Avenches. They were primarily horse traders and built a synagogue in 1865. When economic circumstances worsened at the end of the 19th century the Jews left the city and the synagogue, which was no longer in use, was torn down in 1954. An airfield was built on the flat land north of the municipality in 1910 where Ernest Failloubaz did the first flight in Switzerland of an aircraft built and flown by Swiss citizen. During

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, it served as a military airfield. When the military airport in Payerne was built in 1921, the field in Avenches was closed. Excavation of the Roman town began in the 19th century but it was a well-known location in the

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and Joseph William Mallord Turner made a drawing of the "Cigognier", which shows the old town behind. Archaeology benefitted curiously from the first and second world wars when foreigners interned in Switzerland, and local unemployed, were engaged to excavate the main buildings of the Roman city and to renovate and open to the public the theatre, "Cigognier" and the gates and one tower of the wall. With the advent of the national highway scheme a programme of rescue archaeology was set up under the association "Pro Aventico" under the remarkably capable direction of Professor Hans Bogli, after whom the Roman museum has since been named. Work uncovered a remarkable palace building, much of the centre of the Roman town, and outside the walls a canal and roadway leading from the nearby lake and cemeteries and aqueducts outside the line of the Roman walls. Near to the line of the Roman walls, and benefitting from use of stone from the walls is the small Romanesque church in

Donatyre Donatyre is a village in the district of Avenches of the Canton of Vaud, Switzerland. Since losing its status as an independent municipality on 1 July 2006, it has been part of the municipality of Avenches.

which possesses excellent early fresco paintings.

Geography

Avenches has an area, , of . Of this area, or 63.4% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 15.8% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 19.6% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.9% is either rivers or lakes and or 0.2% is unproductive land.Swiss Federal Statistical Office-Land Use Statistics
2009 data accessed 25 March 2010 Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 1.8% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 4.1% and transportation infrastructure made up 6.0%. while parks, green belts and sports fields made up 6.8%. Out of the forested land, 13.4% of the total land area is heavily forested and 2.4% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 51.7% is used for growing crops and 10.6% is pastures. Of the water in the municipality, 0.3% is in lakes and 0.5% is in rivers and streams. It was the capital of the

Avenches District Avenches District is a former district of the Canton of Vaud, Switzerland. The seat of the district was the town of Avenches. It was dissolved on 31 August 2006 and all the municipalities joined the new Broye-Vully District.

until 1 September 2006 when it became part of the new district of Broye-Vully.Nomenklaturen – Amtliches Gemeindeverzeichnis der Schweiz
accessed 4 April 2011 Avenches is located on a hill, isolated in the

Broye The Broye (; frp, Brouye''Dictionnaire-Dikchenéro: Français-Patois/Patê-Franché''. Société cantonale des patoisans fribourgeois. Fribourg: 2013. p. 87 ) is a 68 km long river, in the cantons of Fribourg and Vaud, in Switzerland. It ha ...

valley, north-west of

. The village ''Donatyre'' (),south of Avenches, belongs to the municipality of Avenches, partly until 2006, and entirely since the municipality of Donatyre merged with Avenches. The municipality of

Oleyres Oleyres is a former municipality in the Swiss canton of Vaud in the district of Broye-Vully. On 1 July 2011 it was merged into the municipality of Avenches.Amtliches Gemeindeverzeichnis der Schweiz
published by the Swiss Federal Statistical Office accessed 17 February 2011

Coat of arms

The

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of the municipal

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is ''Gules, Moors head proper with a band Argent around, clothed in Azure and Or. ''

Demographics

Avenches has a population () of . , 32.9% of the population are resident foreign nationals.Swiss Federal Statistical Office – Superweb database – Gemeinde Statistics 1981-2008
accessed 19 June 2010 Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of 16.2%. It has changed at a rate of 14% due to migration and at a rate of 3% due to births and deaths.
accessed 9 May 2011 Most of the population () speaks French (1,866 or 73.3%), with

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being second most common (329 or 12.9%) and

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being third (152 or 6.0%). There are 78 people who speak

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and 1 person who speaks Romansh. Of the population in the municipality 693 or about 27.2% were born in Avenches and lived there in 2000. There were 357 or 14.0% who were born in the same canton, while 710 or 27.9% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 663 or 26.1% were born outside of Switzerland. In there were 20 live births to Swiss citizens and 11 births to non-Swiss citizens, and in same time span there were 17 deaths of Swiss citizens and 2 non-Swiss citizen deaths. Ignoring immigration and emigration, the population of Swiss citizens increased by 3 while the foreign population increased by 9. There were 2 Swiss women who immigrated back to Switzerland. At the same time, there were 41 non-Swiss men and 29 non-Swiss women who immigrated from another country to Switzerland. The total Swiss population change in 2008 (from all sources, including moves across municipal borders) was an increase of 48 and the non-Swiss population increased by 62 people. This represents a

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of 3.8%. The age distribution, , in Avenches is; 349 children or 11.4% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 376 teenagers or 12.3% are between 10 and 19. Of the adult population, 404 people or 13.2% of the population are between 20 and 29 years old. 426 people or 13.9% are between 30 and 39, 508 people or 16.6% are between 40 and 49, and 375 people or 12.3% are between 50 and 59. The senior population distribution is 301 people or 9.8% of the population are between 60 and 69 years old, 198 people or 6.5% are between 70 and 79,there are 101 people or 3.3% who are 80 and 89, and there are 22 people or 0.7% who are 90 and older.Canton of Vaud Statistical Office
accessed 29 April 2011 , there were 982 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 1,259 married individuals, 165 widows or widowers and 138 individuals who are divorced.STAT-TAB Datenwürfel für Thema 40.3 – 2000
accessed 2 February 2011 , there were 1,094 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.3 persons per household. There were 337 households that consist of only one person and 69 households with five or more people. Out of a total of 1,074 households that answered this question, 31.4% were households made up of just one person and there were 5 adults who lived with their parents. Of the rest of the households, there are 300 married couples without children, 339 married couples with children There were 58 single parents with a child or children. There were 9 households that were made up of unrelated people and 26 households that were made up of some sort of institution or another collective housing. there were 320 single family homes (or 52.1% of the total) out of a total of 614 inhabited buildings. There were 138 multi-family buildings (22.5%), along with 91 multi-purpose buildings that were mostly used for housing (14.8%) and 65 other use buildings (commercial or industrial) that also had some housing (10.6%). Of the single family homes 69 were built before 1919, while 25 were built between 1990 and 2000. The most multi-family homes (49) were built before 1919 and the next most (22) were built between 1961 and 1970. There was 1 multi-family house built between 1996 and 2000.Swiss Federal Statistical Office STAT-TAB – Datenwürfel für Thema 09.2 – Gebäude und Wohnungen
accessed 28 January 2011 there were 1,266 apartments in the municipality. The most common apartment size was 3 rooms of which there were 399. There were 76 single room apartments and 254 apartments with five or more rooms. Of these apartments, a total of 1,022 apartments (80.7% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 173 apartments (13.7%) were seasonally occupied and 71 apartments (5.6%) were empty. , the construction rate of new housing units was 35.9 new units per 1000 residents. The vacancy rate for the municipality, , was 0.67%. The historical population is given in the following chart: Colors= id:lightgrey value:gray(0.9) id:darkgrey value:gray(0.8) ImageSize = width:1140 height:210 PlotArea = height:150 left:100 bottom:50 right:100 AlignBars = justify DateFormat = x.y Period = from:0 till:2600 TimeAxis = orientation:vertical AlignBars = justify ScaleMajor = gridcolor:darkgrey increment:500 start:0 ScaleMinor = gridcolor:lightgrey increment:100 start:0 PlotData= color:yellowgreen width:40 mark:(line,white) align:center bar:1336 from:start till:120 text:"120 citizen" bar:1416 from:start till:280 bar:1416 at:300 fontsize:S text: " 70 Hearths" shift:(8,5) bar:1764 from:start till:825 text:"825" bar:1850 from:start till:1637 text:"1,637" bar:1860 from:start till:1756 text:"1,756" bar:1870 from:start till:1819 text:"1,819" bar:1880 from:start till:1781 text:"1,781" bar:1888 from:start till:1846 text:"1,846" bar:1900 from:start till:1952 text:"1,952" bar:1910 from:start till:1800 text:"1,800" bar:1920 from:start till:1724 text:"1,724" bar:1930 from:start till:1604 text:"1,604" bar:1941 from:start till:1565 text:"1,565" bar:1950 from:start till:1717 text:"1,717" bar:1960 from:start till:1776 text:"1,776" bar:1970 from:start till:2235 text:"2,235" bar:1980 from:start till:2177 text:"2,177" bar:1990 from:start till:2505 text:"2,505" bar:2000 from:start till:2544 text:"2,544"

Heritage sites of national significance

The

ruins of

, Avenches Castle, the ''Cure'' at Rue du Jura 2, the Swiss Reformed Church, the Temple à Donatyre and the ''Tour de l’évêque'' (Bishops tower) with amphitheater and Roman Museum are listed as Swiss heritage site of national significance. The entire town of Avenches and the ''Haras fédéral'' area are part of the Inventory of Swiss Heritage Sites. File:Picswiss VD-48-24.jpg ,

File:Picswiss VD-48-30.jpg , Avenches Castle File:Avenches - arènes.jpg , ''L’évêque'' Tower with

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and Roman Museum File:Picswiss VD-48-11.jpg , Temple à Donatyre File:Avenches - cure.jpg, Cure File:Avenches, church st marie-madeleine - ch.jpg, Reformed Church File:Haras national suisse 6576.jpg, Riding fields at the ''Haras fédéral'' File:Haras - Avenches - 2.jpg, Stables at the ''Haras fédéral'' File:Roman ruins in Avenches 7 15.jpg, Theater

Politics

In the

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the most popular party was the SP which received 29.08% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SVP (26.61%), the FDP (18.92%) and the

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(9.6%). In the federal election, a total of 597 votes were cast, and the

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was 37.9%.

Economy

, Avenches had an unemployment rate of 4.6%. , there were 117 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 27 businesses involved in this sector. 283 people were employed in the

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and there were 41 businesses in this sector. 1,200 people were employed in the

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, with 138 businesses in this sector. There were 1,285 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 42.6% of the workforce. the total number of

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jobs was 1,368. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 99, of which 97 were in agriculture and 2 were in forestry or lumber production. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 267 of which 193 or (72.3%) were in manufacturing and 70 (26.2%) were in construction. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 1,002. In the tertiary sector; 524 or 52.3% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 74 or 7.4% were in the movement and storage of goods, 106 or 10.6% were in a hotel or restaurant, 4 or 0.4% were in the information industry, 10 or 1.0% were the insurance or financial industry, 36 or 3.6% were technical professionals or scientists, 60 or 6.0% were in education and 95 or 9.5% were in health care. , there were 761 workers who commuted into the municipality and 690 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net importer of workers, with about 1.1 workers entering the municipality for every one leaving.Swiss Federal Statistical Office – Statweb
accessed 24 June 2010 Of the working population, 9% used public transportation to get to work, and 63.6% used a private car.

Religion

From the , 966 or 38.0% were

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, while 1,032 or 40.6% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church. Of the rest of the population, there were 8 members of an Orthodox church (or about 0.31% of the population), and there were 37 individuals (or about 1.45% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There were 157 (or about 6.17% of the population) who were Islamic. There were 4 individuals who were

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and 2 individuals who belonged to another church. 196 (or about 7.70% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic or atheist, and 142 individuals (or about 5.58% of the population) did not answer the question.

Weather

Avenches has an average of 121.8 days of rain or snow per year and on average receives of

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. The wettest month is June during which time Avenches receives an average of of rain or snow. During this month there is precipitation for an average of 11.1 days. The month with the most days of precipitation is May, with an average of 12.5, but with only of rain or snow. The driest month of the year is February with an average of of precipitation over 9.6 days., the Avenches weather station elevation is 458 meters above sea level.

Education

In Avenches about 804 or (31.6%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 220 or (8.6%) have completed additional higher education (either

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or a '' Fachhochschule''). Of the 220 who completed tertiary schooling, 59.5% were Swiss men, 28.6% were Swiss women, 8.2% were non-Swiss men and 3.6% were non-Swiss women. In the 2009/2010 school year there were a total of 396 students in the Avenches school district. In the Vaud cantonal school system, two years of non-obligatory pre-school are provided by the political districts.Organigramme de l'école vaudoise, année scolaire 2009-2010
accessed 2 May 2011 During the school year, the political district provided pre-school care for a total of 155 children of which 83 children (53.5%) received subsidized pre-school care. The canton's

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program requires students to attend for four years. There were 212 students in the municipal primary school program. The obligatory lower secondary school program lasts for six years and there were 174 students in those schools. There were also 10 students who were home schooled or attended another non-traditional school.Canton of Vaud Statistical Office – Scol. obligatoire/filières de transition
accessed 2 May 2011 Avenches is home to 1 museum, the ''Musée romain d'Avenches''. In 2009 it was visited by 17,280 visitors. In 2009 the ''Musée romain d'Avenches'' was visited by 17,280 visitors (the average in previous years was 18,742).Canton of Vaud Statistical Office – Fréquentation de quelques musées et fondations, Vaud, 2001-2009
accessed 2 May 2011 , there were 285 students in Avenches who came from another municipality, while 116 residents attended schools outside the municipality.

Transportation

The municipality has a railway station, , on the Palézieux–Lyss railway line. It has regular service to , , and .

Notable people

* Marius of Avenches (532 – 596) the Bishop of

(modern Avenches) from 574, sixth century chronicler *

Fredegar The ''Chronicle of Fredegar'' is the conventional title used for a 7th-century Frankish chronicle that was probably written in Burgundy. The author is unknown and the attribution to Fredegar dates only from the 16th century. The chronicle begin ...

– Seventh century Frankish historian, wrote the ''Chronicle of Fredegar'' shortly before 642 AD * Ernest Failloubaz (1892 in Avenches – 1919) Swiss aviation pioneer * Loulou Boulaz (1908 in Avenches – 1991) a Swiss mountain climber and alpine skier who made numerous first ascents in the Alps

References

External links

Municipality of Avenches, official websitePhoto gallery from the Roman theatre
* {{Authority control Cities in Switzerland Cultural property of national significance in the canton of Vaud Articles which contain graphical timelines