Boulens
Boulens
Boulens is a municipality in the district of Gros- de -Vaud in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.
Geography
Boulens is located on 718 m above sea level. Level, 19 km north of the canton capital Lausanne ( straight line ). The scattered village extends on a plateau east of the Taleinschnitts Mentue, Molassehügelland in the northern Vaud Mittelland.
The area of 3.5 km ² large municipality area includes a portion of the hill country between the Orbeebene and the middle Broyetal. The main part of the area is occupied by gently undulating high plateau north of the Jorat. To the west of the village of the plateau drops steeply. The western boundary runs along the Mentue that has buried here more than 100 m deep valley in the molasse. The northern and eastern boundary is formed by the erosion valley of the brook Oulaire, which is also deeply incised into the plateau. On the western slope of the height Les Bourlayes is 765 m above sea level. M. reached the highest point of Boulens. From the municipality surface 1997 4 % related to settlements, 34 % of forest and woody plants and 62% to agriculture.
To Boulens include some individual farms. The neighboring communities of Boulens are in the northeast, east and south Montanaire, southwest Fey and the west and northwest Bercher.
Population
With 297 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012) Boulens one of the small communities of the Canton of Vaud. Of the 90.1 % inhabitants are French-speaking, German-speaking 6.2 % and 1.9 % portugiesischsprachig (as of 2000). The population of Boulens amounted in 1850 to 247 residents in 1900 to 218 inhabitants. Thereafter, due to high levels of emigration to 1970 recorded a decrease to 134 inhabitants; Since then, the population has risen significantly.
Economy
Boulens was until the second half of the 20th century, mainly coined by farming village. Even today, the farming, fruit growing and cattle breeding have an important role in the economic structure of the population. More jobs are in small local manufacturing and services available. At the Oulaire a mill formerly operated. In recent decades, the village has developed into a residential community. Some of the working population commuters who work in the surrounding larger towns.
Traffic
The community is located off the major thoroughfares, located about 1 km from the main road from Lausanne to Thierrens. By Postbus course, which runs from Echallens to Thierrens, Boulens is connected to the network of public transport.
History
The first written mention of the village was carried out in 1142 under the name Bollen. Later, the names Boslens ( 1166 ), Boslans ( 1218 ), Bolens ( 1453 ) published, and the present name has been handed down since the 15th century. The name goes back to the Burgundian people named Bollo and means for the people of the Bollo.
Since the Middle Ages Boulens was under the Cistercian monastery Montheron. The Count of Geneva had rich land in the village. After the Reformation, the town came under the rule of Lausanne. With the conquest of Vaud by Bern in 1536 Boulens came under the administration of the bailiwick Moudon. 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 Moudon.
Attractions
Already in the 12th century possessed Boulens a chapel. The present church was rebuilt in 1744. In some local characteristic farmhouses from the 18th and 19th centuries have been preserved.