Aclens
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Aclens ( [ aklɑ ], Provençal in the local dialect [(a ) a ː çɛ ] ) is a municipality in the district of Morges in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.
Geography
Aclens is located on 461 m above sea level. M., in a straight line, 7 km north of the district capital Morges. The farming village extends in the western Gros de Vaud, in the Vaud Mittelland, on a plateau west of the valley of the Venoge.
The area of 3.9 km ² large municipality area includes a portion of the gently undulating landscape of Gros de Vaud. The eastern border is the wide Talniederung Venoge. To the west of the municipality extends to the ground about 60 m higher -lying plateau and reached on the top of Trente - Chiens 515 m above sea level. M. the highest point of Aclens. In the north- west and north of the slightly deepened in the plateau stream of Senoge forming a natural demarcation. From the municipality surface 1997 13 % came from settlements, 17 % of forest and woody plants and 70 % to agriculture.
To Aclens include the industrial and commercial district in Venogetal and some individual farms. Neighboring communities of Aclens are Vuillerens, Saint- Saphorin- sur -Morges, Romanel -sur- Morges, Bremblens, Bussigny- pres-Lausanne, Vufflens -la -Ville and Gollion.
Population
With 504 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012) Aclens one of the small communities of the Canton of Vaud. Of the 89.0% inhabitants are French-speaking, German-speaking 6.1 % and 1.7 % Italian-speaking (as of 2000). The population of Aclens amounted in 1850 to 368 inhabitants still, 1900 to 309 inhabitants. After the population had decreased to 192 to 1970 inhabitants, sat a population increase with a doubling of the population within 30 years.
Economy
Aclens was until the mid-20th century, a predominantly coined by agriculture village. Even today, the agriculture in the Gros de Vaud, the granary of the canton of Vaud, an important meaning; on the hillside La Roche there is a small wine region. Situated near the mouth of the creek in the Arena Venoge mill Moulin du Choc was an important operation in Aclens since the 17th century. At the beginning of the 1970s a larger industrial and commercial zone was created in Venogetal that changed the economic structure of Aclens significantly. In recent decades, the village has developed into a residential community. Many workers are therefore commuters who work mainly in Morges and Lausanne.
Traffic
The community is easily accessible via. It lies on the main road from Morges to Cossonay, which bypasses the village to the east. By Postbus course, which runs from Morges to Cossonay, Aclens is connected to the public transport network.
History
In Roman times the area was inhabited community, which is evidenced by the discovery of the walls of a building. 1002, the village was first mentioned in documents as Astlegus or Asclÿgus 1177 as Acclens. The place name is probably a form of the personal name * Askilo and frequent in German place names and in the 6th century, the Gallo-Roman suffix borrowed from INGOs.
The small rule Aclens belonged since the Middle Ages to the rule Cossonay and came in 1410 to the Lords of Vuillerens, where it remained until 1665; In 1675 it passed by purchase to the town of Morges. The municipal area were in the Middle Ages, the towns of Saint -Christophe and Chibi, both of which were abandoned by the beginning of the 18th century. With the conquest of Vaud by Bern in 1536 Aclens came under the administration of the bailiwick of Morges. 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 was assigned to the district of Morges.
Attractions
The 1228 mentioned parish church of Aclens in 1740 newly built and in 1829 received a new bell tower. In the center are some typical farmhouses dating from the 18th and 19th centuries have been preserved.