ChÃ©serex

Bonmont

Chéserex is a municipality in the district of Nyon in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.

Geography

Chéserex is located on 530 m above sea level. M., 5 km west-north- west of the district town of Nyon (air line). The village is located on the gently sloping to the southeast plateau at the foot of the Jura, at the foot of La Dole, in a panoramic position at 150 m above the lake level of Lake Geneva.

The area of 10.6 km ² large municipality area includes a portion of the Jura foothills and the Jura south slope. The communal land extends from the hallway En Caudray to the northwest of the slightly inclined slope over the village Chéserex and the golf course of Bonmont. Adjoining to the north west of the densely wooded steep slopes of La Dole on. The Grande Côte de Bonmont and the Bois des Balandes lingerie are the headwaters of the river aces. In the extreme west, the area extends over the height of La Barillette (up to 1,510 m above sea level. M. ) and the trough at the chalet de la Dole to the Pointe de Poêle Chaud ( 1,628 m above sea level. M. ) and the summit of La Dole ( with 1'677 m above sea level. highest elevation of Chéserex ). At the height of La Dole one finds typical karst features such as sinkholes and karst fields. Here there is an extensive Jura mountain meadows with the typical tall spruce trees that are either individually or in groups. From the municipality surface 1997 8 % were settlements, 52 % of forest and shrubs, 38% to agriculture and about 2% was unproductive land.

To Chéserex include the chalet village La Florettaz ( 643 m above sea level. M. ), the hamlet Le Cret ( 597 m above sea level. M. ) and Bonmont ( 597 m above sea level. M. ), all located at the southeast foot of La Dole, as well as some individual farms. The neighboring communities of Chéserex are in the west of La Rippe, in the south-southwest Crassier, in the south Borex, in the southeast Grens and the east and north Gingins.

Population

With 1191 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012) Chéserex belongs to the medium-sized municipalities in the canton of Vaud. Of the 79.4% inhabitants are French-speaking, German-speaking 8.0 % and 6.6 % in English (as of 2000). The population of Chéserex amounted in 1850 to 218 residents in 1900 to 219 inhabitants. After 1970 (281 inhabitants ) continued a rapid increase in population with a quadrupling of the population within 30 years.

Economy

Chéserex was until the second half of the 20th century, mainly coined by farming village. Thanks to the fertile soils outweighs agriculture, in the higher elevations dominated livestock and dairy farming. The forestry has a certain importance because of the large proportion of the forest community. More jobs are in small local manufacturing and services available. In recent decades, Chéserex has developed into a residential community. Many working population commuters who work mainly in Nyon and Geneva.

Thanks to the tax revenue of the personnel services group Adecco, which has its statutory seat in Chéserex Holding, Chéserex is the federal tax revenue per capita measured by far the richest municipality in Switzerland. The founder of Adecco, Henri -Ferdinand Lavanchy, came from Chéserex and lived until his death in 2012 in a large property in the village.

Leisure

1989, a new sports center was opened in Chéserex. In the area of Bonmont there is a golf course.

Traffic

Although the community is located off of larger thoroughfares, but of Nyon is easily accessible. The motorway connection Nyon on the A1 ( Geneva -Lausanne ) is just 3 km from the village. By Postbus course, which runs from Nyon to Gingins, Chéserex is connected to the public transport network.

History

The territory of Chéserex was inhabited very early, which testify to the discoveries of the remains of a Roman settlement, an early medieval necropolis and a 1093 mentioned chapel. The first written mention of the village was carried out in 1025 under the name Chiseras, other names were Chiseracum, Chesarium ( 1164 ) and Chasarais.

Chéserex initially belonged to the Abbey of Saint -Maurice. After 1025 it was handed over to the Abbot of Cluny, later to Abbot Bernard of Clairvaux. This gave Chéserex in 1150 the monks of the Cistercian abbey Bonmont. The taxes in the village have been recovered from the Abbey and partly by the Lords of Gingins.

With the conquest of Vaud by Bern in 1536 Chéserex came under the administration of Kastlanei Gingins in the bailiwick of Nyon and 1711 the Bailiwick Bonmont. After the collapse of the ancien régime, the village belonged from 1798 to 1803 during the Helvetic Republic to the canton of Geneva, who came up then with the enactment of the Act of Mediation in the canton of Vaud. 1798 Chéserex was assigned to the district of Nyon. The formerly belonging to Chéserex, in the southwest of the village hamlet Tranchepied in 1826 the municipality of La Rippe slammed.

Attractions

In the old town of Chéserex some citizens and farmhouses dating from the 17th to 19th centuries have been preserved. The Castle of Chéserex was built in 1668 and was until 1880 the Rochemondet family. Chéserex does not have its own church, it belongs to the parish Gingins. From the medieval castle of Coudray no residues are present.