Oron-la-Ville

Oron- la -Ville was until 31 December 2011, a municipality in the district of Lavaux -Oron in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. In Roman times the city was called Uromagus. On January 1, 2012, it merged with Oron.

Geography

Oron- la- Ville is located at 631 m above sea level. M., 16 km east-northeast of the canton capital Lausanne ( straight line ). The village extends on both sides of the river Flon, in a broad valley at the headwaters of the Broye, east of the heights of the Jorat, in the eastern marginal zone of Vaud Mittelland.

The area of ​​3.1 km ² large former municipal area includes a portion of the upper Broyetals and the adjacent slopes. The western border is the slightly tortuous course of Broye. From here, the former communal land extends eastward across the broad Talniederung to the adjacent lower slopes of the pre-Alpine Molassehügellandes and in the valley of the Flon. Near the Bois de l' Erberey is 707 m above sea level. M. the highest point of Oron- la -Ville reached. In the far south comprises the area is also the Bois de Chaney. From the former rural community area in 1997 accounted for 17% settlements, 15 % of forest and woody plants and 68 % to agriculture.

For Oron- la -Ville include some new neighborhoods as well as several individual farms.

Population

With 1,438 inhabitants (as of 31 December 2010) Oron- la -Ville is one of the medium-sized former municipalities of the Canton of Vaud; it is with respect to population, the largest former municipality in the district Oron. Of the 90.3 % inhabitants are French-speaking, German-speaking 3.2 % and 2.4 % portugiesischsprachig (as of 2000). The population of Oron- la -Ville in 1900 amounted to 568 residents. Throughout the 20th century the population began to slowly but steadily; only during the 1980s increased population increase was recorded.

Economy

Oron- la -Ville was until the early 20th century, primarily coined by farming village. Today, the crop and livestock farming have only a minor role in the occupational structure of the population.

By following the railway line Lausanne- Bern ( 1862) and the improved transport links Oron- la -Ville developed into a regional center for trade and processing of agricultural products from the area. Since 1733 month markets were held. The establishment of industrial and commercial enterprises, it was carried out during the 20th century.

Today, based in Oron- la -Ville construction companies, information technology, Joinery, a printing and various other small businesses. As a regional center, the municipality take out their duties as a service center for the daily needs of the town and its surrounding area. In the tertiary sector also by far the most workers are employed. Oron- la -Ville has several retirement and nursing homes, as well as a cinema.

Due to the construction of many houses in the last decades the village has also developed into a residential community. Many employed persons are therefore commuters who work mainly in Lausanne and Vevey.

Traffic

The former municipality is traffic-infrastructure. It is located at the intersection of roads from Lausanne to Bulle or Romont and Moudon to Vevey.

In the immediate vicinity of Oron- la -Ville, but outside the municipal area, there are two train stations. The Oron station on the main line Lausanne- Fribourg, which was put into operation on September 4, 1862, is in the field of Oron -le- Châtel on the hillside above the village. West of the Broye is the Châtillens station on the inaugurated on August 25 1876 subline of Moudon after Palézieux. For the dispersion in public transport bus services from Oron- la- Ville Palézieux- Gare, after Mezieres, La Verrerie and to Romont provide.

History

Oron- la -Ville been inhabited since the Roman era, as it was the major military road which led from Aventicum ( Avenches ) through the Broyetal and along the eastern shore of Lake Geneva via Octodurum ( Martigny ) on the Great St. Bernard. The Roman settlement was called Uromagus and was listed in various Roman street directories. Uromagus originates from the Celtic: uro means beef and magos market. From Roman times, the lesser-known names Viromagus and Bromago are also preserved. However, archaeologically of this Roman settlement, little is known; the findings are limited to Roman column drums and some coins.

The first written mention of the name Oron was already in 515 in a document of the Abbey of Saint- Maurice. The Burgundian king Sigismund gave at the time of the Abbey, the area around Oron. From 516-1049 the name Curtis Auronum is preserved. In the following time period a part of the goods seemed again to be returned at Burgundy, for King Rudolf III. of Burgundy about 1017 left a large part of his property in the area Oron turn of the Abbey of Saint -Maurice.

From the possessions of the Abbey of the rule Oron to the through marriages even today Fribourgese areas around Attalens and Bossonnens and a part of Vevey were developed in the 12th century. Center of the reign was the castle Oron, which today is in Oron -le- Châtel. In the 13th century, the lords of Oron, received the area as a fief of Peter of Savoy. During this century the rule Oron flourished; the members of the family occupied influential positions in the Vaud region. When the family of the lords of Oron went out in 1388, the government went as heir to the Counts of Greyerz.

With the conquest of Vaud by Bern in 1536 Oron remained first in the county of Greyerz, but came under the suzerainty of Bern. The Reformation was introduced in 1539 in Oron- la -Ville. By buying reached the former dominion Oron 1555 Bern, the 1557 Bailiwick Oron einrichtete. This included only the eastern part of today's borough Oron along the upper reaches of the Broye as well as among the villages in the catchment area FODOVI and Carrouge to bailiwick Moudon an exclave of the municipality Peney -le- Jorat. Under his direct rule continued Bern 1557-1798 43 governors in a Oron. Until the mid-17th century, the abbot of Saint -Maurice possessed rights to Oron. These were exchanged on August 7, 1671 in the so-called Echange d' Oron against sovereign rights in the Valais with Bern.

After the collapse of the ancien régime Oron- la -Ville 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. It was the capital of the district of Oron, now the communities came to the eastern slopes on the Jorat.

Attractions

The Protestant parish church Oron- la -Ville was built in 1678 according to plans by Abraham Dünz at the site of a medieval chapel. It has - like the built by the same architect role model in Chêne- Pâquier - an oval ground plan. The Hôtel de Ville (City Hall ) dates from 1733. Oron The castle is located in the municipality of Oron -le- Châtel.