Granges-près-Marnand

Granges-près-Marnand is a former municipality in the district of Broye-Vully in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. The municipalities of Cerniaz, Combremont-le-Grand, Combremont-le-Petit, Granges-près-Marnand, Marnand, Sassel, Seigneux and Villars-Bramard merged on 1 July 2011 into the new municipality of Valbroye. Granges-près-Marnand is first mentioned in 881 as in fine Graniacense. In 1228 it was mentioned as Granges. The current name was adopted in 1952. Granges-près-Marnand has an area, , of . Of this area, or 63.7% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 21.4% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 13.0% is settled (buildings or roads), or 2.1% is either rivers or lakes. Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 2.1% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 4.4% and transportation infrastructure made up 3.3%. Power and water infrastructure as well as other special developed areas made up 2.6% of the area Out of the forested land, 20.2% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.1% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 53.4% is used for growing crops and 9.7% is pastures. All the water in the municipality is flowing water. The municipality was part of the Payerne District until it was dissolved on 31 August 2006, and Granges-près-Marnand became part of the new district of Broye-Vully. The municipality is located on the left bank of the Broye river. It consists of the village of Granges-près-Marnand and the hamlet of Brit. The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Gules, three Geese Argent. Granges-près-Marnand has a population () of 1,210. , 24.8% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of 5.9%. It has changed at a rate of 5.2% due to migration and at a rate of 1% due to births and deaths. Most of the population () speaks French (976 or 85.2%), with Portuguese being second most common (43 or 3.8%) and Albanian being third (39 or 3.4%).