Échichens
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Echichens is a municipality in the district of Morges in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.
Geography
Echichens is located on 466 m above sea level. M., 2 km north of the district capital Morges ( straight line ). The village stretches along the edge of a plateau east of Morges, Vaud in Plateau at a scenic location around 100 m above the lake level of Lake Geneva.
The area of 2.6 km ² large municipality area includes a portion of the Vaud Mittelland in the hinterland of Morges. The largest part of the territory occupied by the high plateau, 495 m above sea level with. M. at the height of Haute Pierre reached the highest point of Echichens. To the west is the municipality of soil extends to the mouth of the creek Baillon in the Morges. To the south, the area extends as far as the outskirts of Morges, and in the north over the hill Cret Blanc ( 475 m above sea level. M. ) to the headwaters of the creek arena, a right-hand side of Bach's Venoge. From the municipality surface 1997 20 % came from settlements, 9% of forest and woody plants and 71% to agriculture.
To Echichens include the hamlet Joulens ( 469 m above sea level. M. ) west of the village and Le Vernay. Neighboring communities of Echichens are in the north Vuillerens, in the north-northeast Aclens, northeast Romanel -sur -Morges, on the east Bremblens, in the southeast Lonay, in the south of Morges, in the southwest Vufflens -le- Château, in the west of Vaux -sur- Morges, in the west-northwest Clarmont, in the northwest Appels and Sévery and in the north-northwest Cottens.
Population
With 2496 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012) Echichens one of the smaller municipalities in the canton of Vaud. Of the 89.1% inhabitants are French-speaking, German-speaking 3.9 % and 2.0 % portugiesischsprachig (as of 2000). The population of Echichens amounted in 1850 to 300 residents in 1900 to 358 inhabitants. Since 1960 (471 inhabitants), a rapid population increase was recorded with a doubling of the population within 40 years.
Economy
Echichens was up in the mid-20th century, a predominantly coined by farming village. Today, agriculture has only a minor role in the occupational structure of the population. On the southern and south-eastern slopes of the plateau there are large wine-growing regions. More jobs are available in the local small businesses and especially in the service sector. Since 1828, the Pestalozzi School ( Ecole Pestalozzi ) established in Echichens. In other Echichens owns a nursing home and a home for injured behavior ( Cité radieuse ). In recent decades, the village has developed thanks to its attractive location into a residential community. Many workers are therefore commuters who work mainly in Morges and Lausanne.
Traffic
The community is easily accessible via. It is located on the main road from Morges to Cottens. The motorway Morges Morges -Ouest and Est opened in 1964 at the A1 ( Geneva, Lausanne) is around 2 km away from the resort. By Postbus course, which runs from Morges to Cossonay, Echichens is connected to the public transport network.
History
Remains of a Roman villa in Joulens evidence of an early settlement of the municipality. The first written mention of the village was carried out in 1131 under the name Chic Hens. Later, the names Echichen ( 1177 ), Eschichens ( 1213), Eschicheins and Eschichins ( 1238 ) published. The place name probably goes back to the Burgundian people named Kiko and means for the people of Kiko.
Since the Middle Ages the Lausanne cathedral chapter and the Abbey Lac de Joux had (L' Abbaye ) rich land in Echichens. The rule Echichens was under the Lords of Cossonay, was divided in the 14th century in several fiefs and came in 1777 by purchase to the town of Morges. With the conquest of Vaud by Bern in 1536 Echichens 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.
With effect on 1 July 2011 merged the formerly independent communities of Colombier, Monnaz and Saint- Saphorin- sur -Morges with Echichens, which is also the name of the new fusion community.
Attractions
The present parish church was built in 1894 and has a richly decorated apse. The 1173 mentioned the mother church of the area was located in the hamlet Joulens (on the site of the present cemetery ) and served until the Reformation and the inhabitants of Morges as a parish church. The Castle of Echichens with two towers built in the 18th century and now houses the business section of the local authority.