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Yverdon-les-Bains

Yverdon-les-Bains (French pronunciation: [ivɛʁdɔ̃lebɛ̃]) is a municipality in Jura-Nord vaudois in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. It is the capital of the district. As of 31 December 2020, 29,955 people lived in Yverdon-les-Bains.[1] It was called Eburodunum and Ebredunum during the Roman era.

Municipality in Switzerland
Picswiss VD-47-14.jpg
Coat of arms of Yverdon-les-Bains
Coat of arms
Coordinates: 46°46.71′N 6°38.45′E / 46.77850°N 6.64083°E / 46.77850; 6.64083Coordinates: 46°46.71′N 6°38.45′E / 46.77850°N 6.64083°E / 46.77850; 6.64083
CountrySwitzerland
CantonVaud
DistrictJura-Nord vaudois
Government
 • ExecutiveMunicipalité
with 7 members
 • MayorSyndic (list)
Daniel Von Siebenthal PSS/SPS
(as of February 2014)
 • ParliamentConseil communal
with 100 members
Area
 • Total13.49 km2 (5.21 sq mi)
Elevation
435 m (1,427 ft)
Population
 (December 2020)
 • Total29,955
 • Density2,220.5/km2 (5,751.2/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (Central European Time)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (Central European Summer Time)
Postal code(s)
1400
Surrounded byBelmont-sur-Yverdon, Cheseaux-Noréaz, Cuarny, Ependes, Grandson, Gressy, Montagny-près-Yverdon, Pomy, Treycovagnes
Twin townsNogent-sur-Marne (France), Winterthur (Switzerland), Prokuplje (Serbia), Kagamino (Japan), Pontarlier (France), Collesano (Italy)
Websitewww.yverdon-les-bains.ch
Profile (in French), SFSO statistics

Yverdon-les-Bains won Wakker Prize in 2009 for the way the city handled and developed the public areas and connected the old city with Lake Neuchâtel.[2]

The former municipality Gressy became part of Yverdon-les-Bains on 1 July 2011.[3]

Yverdon-les-Bains Media

  • The stone rows in Yverdon-les-Bains (3000 B.C.E.)

  • Yverdon: Castrum (Röm. Kastell) beim Friedhof

  • Yverdon-les-Bains

  • The temple of Yverdon-les-Bains

  • Aerial view from 400 m by Walter Mittelholzer (1919)

  • Champ-Pittet manor house (2012).

  • Fog on Lake Neuchâtel outside Yverdon.

  • Yverdon: Place Pestalozzi

  • Yverdon: Place de Bel-Air

  • The Yverdon-les-Bains station building in 2009

References

  1. ↑ "Ständige und nichtständige Wohnbevölkerung nach institutionellen Gliederungen, Geburtsort und Staatsangehörigkeit". bfs.admin.ch (in Deutsch). Swiss Federal Statistical Office - STAT-TAB. 31 December 2020. Retrieved 21 September 2021.
  2. ↑ Wakker Prize Archived 2011-06-26 at the Wayback Machine (in German) accessed 11 May 2009.
  3. ↑ Amtliches Gemeindeverzeichnis der Schweiz published by the Swiss Federal Statistical Office (in German) accessed 17 February 2011.

Other websites

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