Mollie-Margot
Origin of the name Mollie-Margot
Name origin: the origin of the name is not explained in the sources consulted. The Federal Office of Topography also lists a place name «Mollie Margot» on the neighbouring territory of Forel (Lavaux).
Founding of Mollie-Margot
Mollie-Margot is not a municipality but a hamlet of the municipality of Savigny, in the district of Lavaux-Oron. No source consulted dates its formation or names its founders. Savigny, located where Lavaux meets the Jorat, includes the hamlets of Mollie-Margot, La Goille, Le Martinet and La Claie-aux-Moines and is marked by scattered settlement. For the whole of this territory, land clearing began in the 13th century, first by settlers from Haute-Savoie and the Lombard valleys, later from the Bernese Oberland; these facts concern the whole municipality and not Mollie-Margot in particular.
History of Mollie-Margot
13th century. Land clearing begins on the territory of the present municipality of Savigny, by settlers from Haute-Savoie and the Lombard valleys, later from the Bernese Oberland (applies to the whole municipality).
1823. The farmers of Les Monts, long subordinate to the winegrowers of Lutry, separate from them and form the municipality of Savigny, to which Mollie-Margot belongs (applies to the whole municipality).
1993. A postmaster is appointed to the post office of Mollie-Margot.
2004. The post office of Mollie-Margot has to close.
2008. The new Vaud districts come into force: Savigny, until then in the district of Lavaux, becomes part of the district of Lavaux-Oron.
2009. The upper drinking water network of the municipality, serving Mollie-Margot and La Claie-aux-Moines, is supplied by the Erbenaz reservoir.
2020. The municipality describes its settlement as the centre of Savigny, to which the hamlets of La Claie-aux-Moines and Mollie-Margot are added.
Historic sites in Mollie-Margot
The hamlet on the edge of the Grand-Jorat. A walk described by the municipality passes through Mollie-Margot, very close to the woods of the Grand-Jorat, with a possible stop at the La Planie shelter.
The hamlets of Savigny. Mollie-Margot is, with La Goille, Le Martinet and La Claie-aux-Moines, one of the main hamlets of a municipality with scattered settlement, whose centre only formed after 1823.
Sources
- Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz, Louis-Daniel Perret, « Savigny », version du 17.11.2009
- Commune de Savigny, journal communal n° 44, juin 2009
- Commune de Savigny, « Le Savignolan » n° 50, 2023
- Feuille des avis officiels du canton de Vaud, « Alphabet des communes vaudoises : Savigny », 25.08.2020
- Office fédéral de topographie swisstopo, géoportail fédéral map.geo.admin.ch, recherche « Mollie-Margot »
- Wikipédia, « Districts du canton de Vaud »
- Statistique Vaud, « Population résidante permanente au 31 décembre 2025 »
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