Écublens, Vaud

Village center of Ecublens

Ecublens ( [ ekyblɑ ], Provençal in the local dialect [ ekubjɛ ] ) is a municipality in the district of Ouest lausannois the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. The city is located in the western part of the agglomeration of Lausanne. The southern part of Ecublens is part of the parish Ecublens -Saint-Sulpice, the northern parish of Chavannes- Epenex.

Geography

Ecublens is on 428 m above sea level. Level, 6 km west of the canton capital Lausanne ( straight line ). The original village is located on a moraine between the valleys of Venoge and concern, in the Vaud Mittelland, a scenic location about 50 m above the lake level of Lake Geneva.

The area of ​​5.7 km ² large municipality area includes a section north of Lake Geneva. Ecublens does not border directly on the lake; the southern border is always along the main road which leads west from Lausanne to Morges. The central part of the municipality area is occupied by a moraine, which in its southern section of 433 m above sea level. M., in the northern part of the Château de la Motte 443 m above sea level. M. reached ( highest elevation of Ecublens ). The moraine was deposited by glacial Rhone glacier.

To the west of Moränenhöhe extends the communal land in the wide Talniederung Venoge, which forms the boundary of the municipality with its meanders. To the east the area extends into the Talniederung of concern and in a narrow tip on the University and EPFL terrain to the country seat Dorigny and on the lower reaches of the Chamberonne. In the north of the municipality spell extends beyond the forest Bois d' Ecublens to the railway line Lausanne- Geneva, which forms the northern boundary for long stretches. From the municipality surface 1997 56 % came from settlements, 13 % of forest and woody plants and 31% to agriculture.

To Ecublens include the village Renges (404 m above sea level. M. ) on the western foot of the Moränenwalls in the valley of the Venoge, the hamlet Bass Tight (407 m above sea level. M. ) on the eastern slope of the moraine, the settlement Epenex (420 m above sea level. M. ) between feeder road A1A and railways as well as various residential areas and industrial zones. Neighboring communities of Ecublens are Denges, Echandens, Bussigny- pres-Lausanne, Renens, Chavannes- près -Renens and Saint -Sulpice (VD ).

Population

With 11,499 inhabitants (as of 31 December 2012) Ecublens one of the great municipalities in the canton of Vaud. Of the 76.5 % inhabitants are French-speaking, 6.5 % and 4.6 % speak Italian- German (as of 2000). The population of Ecublens doubled in the period between 1850 and 1950. Thereafter, it began a marked increase in population and urbanization in a pull of the city of Lausanne. The population has increased eight-fold within 50 years, with particularly large growth rates were recorded during the 1960s. With the excess of the 10,000 -inhabitant limit Ecublens was the 12th town in the Canton of Vaud. Today, the settlement area of Ecublens is completely grown together with those of Renens, Chavannes- près -Renens and Saint -Sulpice.

Economy

Ecublens was until the mid 20th century a predominantly coined by agriculture, particularly through the wine-growing village. Then it developed into an industrial and residential suburb of Lausanne.

Today, the municipality offers about 11,000 jobs. With 0.3 % of employed workers who are still employed in the primary sector, agriculture has only a marginal position in the occupational structure of the population. Approximately 25 % of the workforce are employed in the industrial sector, while the service sector 75 % of the workforce to be united ( as of 2001).

Larger industrial and commercial zones emerged since the 1960s in the valley of the Venoge, both in the northern section on the outskirts of Bussigny -pres-Lausanne as well as in the southern part at Valeyre and in the range of Epenex near the train station of Renens. Over time, have settled in the municipality of Ecublens various large companies. These include the Socsil SA (since 1959; anesthetic gases), the Socorex - isba SA (since 1962 ), the Maillefer SA (since 1964; cabling machines), the Sapal SA (since 1964; packaging machines ), the Applied Research Laboratories SA ( since 1970; spectrography - apparatus), the Thévenaz - Leduc SA (since 1972 ) and the Sirec SA ( since 1972). Furthermore Ecublens since 1979 administrative headquarters of Migros Vaud.

New residential developments emerged on the northern edge of the original village center and in Epenex. Detached properties and villas roosts are located on the moraine between the valleys of Venoge and concern.

Education

Ecublens has established itself over the years as an educational center. Since the early 1970s, the church is the site of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL ) and the University of Lausanne ( UNIL ). 1977 pulled the Vaud Cantonal Library (BCU ) is also to Ecublens. The campus is located between the main road Lausanne -Morges and the stream of concern and occupies one-fifth of its territory.

Traffic

Ecublens is a very good transport developed. It lies on the M1 metro line Renens -Lausanne -Flon the Transports publics de la région Lausannoise; this city railway was opened under the name TSOL ( Tramway Sud-Ouest Lausannois ) of Federal Councillor Adolf Ogi on 24 May 1991. A bus service operates to Morges.

In addition, the shore of Lake Geneva, the village is located on the main road along one of Lausanne to Geneva. Through the northern municipality area to pull the main traffic network of railway and motorway between Lausanne and Geneva. North of the village is the branch Ecublens at which the western city terminal of Lausanne (A1A ) incident on the A1 motorway was opened in 1964. The nearest links to the motorway is 3 km from the village.

History

The territory of Ecublens was settled very early. The oldest objects found during excavations date from the Bronze Age. Further findings are dated to the La Tène culture (younger stage of the Iron Age, 500/400-15 BC) and the Roman period. Unknown date, the earthworks in the locality Château de la Motte.

First mentioned in a document of the place is in the year 964 under the name Scubilingis. Later, the names Escublens ( 1142 ), Scublens ( 1147 ), Esciblens ( 1161 ), Scubleins ( 1220 ) and again Escublens ( 1228 ) published. The name goes back to the Burgundian personal names Scubila and accordingly is with the people of Scubila.

From the 10th century Ecublens belonged to the territory of Renens. In the Middle Ages, a local noble family is mentioned. With the conquest of Vaud by Bern in 1536, the village came under the administration of the bailiwick of Lausanne and made it a Kastlanei with the Court. After the collapse of the Ancien Régime Ecublens 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. In 1798 it was assigned to the district of Morges, to which it belongs to the present day; 1803 received the rank of district chief town.

Until the 1920s, the community was relatively insignificant, but in the course of the century Ecublens has become a suburb of Lausanne, the number of inhabitants has almost tenfold here. In 1946, even an airport to be built in Ecublens, the proposal was rejected in a referendum.

Attractions

• The village church of Saint- Pierre, whose origins date back to the 12th century, received its present form in the 18th century. The parsonage dates back from 1740.
• The mansion La Tour in the Bernese style, was built in the late Middle Ages.
• The mansion Le Foyer in Tight bass dates from the 18th century.
• The Bois d' Ecublens ( Forest of Ecublens ) were said to, he was so beautiful that even exist postcards of it. Today, highway and railway line cutting the forest so that there are only a few initial sites.
• The moraine of Ecublens that is no longer recognizable as such, is still visited because of the good view of many tourists.
• The Galerie du Pressoir in the district Tight bass, originally a grape press and a bakery, now serves as an art gallery
• The Museum of Printing " Encre et plomb »
• The former castle Dorigny, built in 1770 by Etienne de Loys, is now a part of the University of Lausanne.