Éclépens

Village center of Eclépens

Eclépens is a municipality in the district of Morges in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.

Geography

Eclépens is located on 461 m above sea level. Level, 16 km north of the district capital Morges ( straight line ). The village is located in the valley of the Venoge, at the southern foot of the Mormont, in the Vaud Mittelland.

The area of ​​5.8 km ² large municipality area includes a portion of the Vaud Mittelland. The central part of the territory occupied by the up to 1 km wide flat Talniederung on the middle reaches of the Venoge. To the south Eclépens extends to the height of Bramafan (up to 520 m above sea level. M. ). The northern boundary runs along the Mormont, a cross bar between the Venogetal and Orbeebene. It forms the watershed between the basins of the Rhone and Rhine. On the skin you Mormont is 605 m above sea level. M. reached the highest point of Eclépens. To the east the area extends to the wooded slopes of the Côte de Tilerie, and in the north- east to the brook Crist Allin, which already belongs to the catchment area of the river Orbe. From the municipality surface 1997 17 % came from settlements, 27 % of forest and shrubs, 55 % to agriculture and slightly more than 1% was unproductive land.

To Eclépens include some individual farms and the industrial area of the cement plant near the station. Neighboring communities of Eclépens are Orny, La Sarraz Lussery -Villars, Daillens, Oulens -sous -Echallens and Bavois.

Population

With 1010 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012) Eclépens one of the smaller municipalities in the canton of Vaud. Of the 89.6 % inhabitants are French-speaking, German-speaking 3.0 % and 2.2 % Italian-speaking (as of 2000). The population of Eclépens amounted in 1850 to 495 residents in 1900 to 477 inhabitants. Since 1960 (440 inhabitants), a rapid population increase was observed with a doubling of the population within 40 years.

Economy

Eclépens was until the second half of the 19th century, mainly coined by farming village. Today, the farming and fruit growing have only a minor role in the occupational structure of the population. On the southern slope of the Mormont there is a small wine region.

In the course of the 19th century Eclépens developed thanks to the excellent transport links to the construction of the railway into an industrial site. With a canal water was derived from the Venoge and led to the industrial area. Here, a mill, a hammer mill and a mill, which was later converted into the cloth factory H. Berger SA and was in operation until 1983 originated. In addition to the mid 20th century, there was a brickyard. In 1953, the cement plant was established east of the town, which maintains a large quarry at Mormont and (now Holcim ) adopted in 1992 by the Holder Bank Cement and Concrete AG. In Eclépens is also a collection point for special waste. In recent decades, the village has developed into a residential community.

Swiss Post has settled in Eclépens one of their three big letter mail distribution, which has been operational since 2008.

Mail center Eclépens

Traffic

The community is easily accessible via. It is located on a main road from La Sarraz to Oulens -sous -Echallens. The highway connecting La Sarraz at the 1981 opened A1 (Lausanne -Yverdon ) is about 4 km away from the resort. On May 7, 1855 Yverdon- section Bussigny -pres-Lausanne railway line Yverdon -Lausanne was put into operation. The Eclépens train station is, however, located 2 km east of the village at the south portal of the tunnel Mormont. Only a little outside the village, the station is located on the La Sarraz inaugurated on July 1, 1870 route Cossonay- Vallorbe.

History

In 1973, discovered three prehistoric settlements in construction work, which were dated to the period from the Neolithic to the Late Bronze Age. In January 2006, an important place of worship of the Helvetii was found at Mormont.

The territory was crossed by the Roman road which connected with Orbe Lausanne.

The first documentary mention of the place was already in 814 under the name Sclepedingus. Later, the names Isclapadenes ( 1011), Sclepens ( 1147 ), Esclepens ( 1174 ), Esclepeins ( 1228 ), Esclepans ( 1286) and Sclapeins ( 1325 ) published. The place name is Burgundian origin. Both the cathedral chapter in Lausanne as well as the monastery Romainmôtier were wealthy in the Middle Ages in Eclépens. The village government owned a local noble family as a fief of the lords of La Sarraz. In the 14th century Eclépens came after the extinction of the noble family back to the reign of La Sarraz.

With the conquest of Vaud by Bern in 1536, the village came under the administration of the Bailiwick Romainmôtier. After the collapse of the ancien régime Eclépens 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 Cossonay.

Attractions

The parish church of Saint- Pierre, which originally dates from the 13th century, was rebuilt from 1673 to 1675. Eclépens has two locks: The Lower Castle (Château En -Bas ) was created in 1709, while the upper castle (Château De - skin) was created by 1786 and expansion of the former rectory. The compact town center and some characteristic farmhouses from the 17th to 19th centuries have been preserved.