Crassier
Crassier is a municipality in the district of Nyon in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.
Geography
Crassier located right at the French border to 475 m above sea level. Level, 6 km west of the district town of Nyon (air line). The village stretches along the river Boiron de Nyon in the plain between the lake and the Jura.
The area of only just 2.0 km ² large municipality area includes a portion of the plain at the foot of the Jura. The communal land extends from the crest at Bois d' Ely ( 475 m above sea level. M. ) northward up on the Talniederung of Boiron and the slightly inclined to the south area of the Jura foot level. Below the hamlet Tranchepied is 515 m above sea level. M. reached the highest elevation of Crassier. From the municipality surface 1997 15 % came from settlements, 13 % of forest and woody plants and 72% to agriculture.
To Crassier include some individual farms. The neighboring communities of Crassier are in the northwest of La Rippe, in the north Chéserex, in the east Borex, in the southeast Arnex -sur -Nyon, in the south-southeast of the Geneva exclave Céligny in the southwest Bogis -Bossey and Divonne- les- Bains in neighboring France.
Population
With 1051 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012) Crassier one of the smaller municipalities in the canton of Vaud. Of the 77.9% inhabitants are French-speaking, German-speaking 7.4 % and 7.0 % in English (as of 2000). The population of Crassier amounted in 1850 to 162 residents in 1900 to 206 inhabitants. After 1970 (302 inhabitants ) continued rapid population growth, with a doubling of the population within 30 years.
Economy
Crassier until the 20th century embossed mainly by agriculture village. Today, agriculture plays as a source of income only a minor role, she focuses on agriculture, east of the village there is a small vineyard. More jobs are in the business (and especially in a sawmill ) and the service sector. In recent decades, the village has developed into a residential community. Many workers are commuters who work primarily in Nyon and Geneva.
Traffic
The community is easily accessible via. It lies on the main road from Nyon to Divonne- les- Bains. By Postbus course, which runs from Nyon to Coppet, Crassier is connected to the public transport network. At the 1905 operated until 1962 the railway line from Nyon to Divonne- les- Bains Crassier had a small station.
History
The territory has been inhabited since very early, whereupon finds from the Neolithic period, dating from Roman times and remains of Burgundian graves point. The first written mention of the village was carried out in 1123 as de Craceio, in the 12th century appeared the term Cracie. The village was in the Middle Ages seat of a noble family.
With the conquest of Vaud by Bern in 1536 Crassier came under the administration of the Bailiwick of Nyon. Crassier was 1564 in two divided by a peace treaty between Bern and Savoy. The French part of the castle belonged to the French community Vésenex - Crassy, which is now combined with Divonne- les- Bains in the Pays de Gex. In the 18th century Crassier seat of the Court. 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 Nyon.
Attractions
The already mentioned in 1225 parish church of Sainte -Marie -Madeleine was subject to the Reformation of the Cistercian abbey Bonmont. The church was enlarged in 1665 and 1878 restored.
Personalities
- Suzanne Curchod (1739-1794), writer and wife of French Finance Minister Jacques Necker