Essertes

Essertes is a municipality in the district of Lavaux -Oron in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.

Geography

Essertes is located on 735 m above sea level. M., 3 km west-southwest of Oron- la -Ville and 13 km east-northeast of the canton capital Lausanne ( straight line ). This former farm extends to a height west of the upper Broyetals, on the eastern slopes of the plateau of the Jorat, in the Vaud Mittelland.

The area of ​​1.7 km ² large municipality area includes a portion of the Molassehöhen between the Jorat and the upper reaches of the Broye. The main part of the territory occupied by the height of Essertes which is bounded in the northwest of the Talniederung of Parimbot, in the southeast of that of a side stream of the Grenet. To the west of the municipality extends to the bottom to Pra Donnabbé where 814 m above sea level. M. the highest point of Essertes is achieved. From the municipality surface 1997 9 % came from settlements, 16 % of forest and woody plants and 75 % to agriculture.

To Essertes include the hamlet Bretonnaire and several individual farms. Neighboring communities of Essertes are Oron, Forel ( Lavaux) and Servion the canton of Vaud and Auboranges in the Canton of Fribourg.

Population

With 328 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012) Essertes is one of the small communities of the Canton of Vaud. Of the 92.7 % inhabitants are French-speaking, German-speaking 3.1 % and 1.5 % Italian-speaking (as of 2000). The population of Essertes amounted in 1850 to 197 residents in 1900 to 162 inhabitants. Thereafter, through constant migration to 1970 recorded a decrease to 116 inhabitants; Since then, the population increased again significantly.

Economy

Essertes was until the second half of the 20th century, mainly coined by farming village. Even today, the crop and livestock farming have a certain role in the occupational structure of the population. More jobs are in small local manufacturing and services available. Due to the construction of many houses in the last decades the village has also developed into a residential community. Many workers are therefore commuters who work mainly in Lausanne.

Traffic

The community is conveniently technically quite well developed. It lies on the main route from Lausanne via Oron- la -Ville to Bulle or Romont. By Postbus course, which runs from Palézieux via Oron- la- Ville Mézières, Essertes is connected to the public transport network.

History

During the Neolithic period the municipality of Essertes was inhabited, as witnessed by a menhir. The first written mention of the village was carried out in 1154 under the name terram de Sarti; 1271 appeared the name de Essertes. The place name is on exsartum, the past participle of Late Latin word exsarire ( clear, speak to cultivate ) due.

The Lords of Palézieux, which Essertes belonged in the Middle Ages, gave the village with its surroundings in the 12th century Cistercian abbey skin - Cret. After the conquest of Vaud by Bern, the village came in 1557 to the Bernese bailiff Oron. After the collapse of the ancien régime Essertes 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 Oron. It was not until 1814, when the villages Châtillens, Les Tavernes and Essertes parted, the latter became an independent municipality.

Attractions

The school house with bell tower was built in 1848. With a wide Bernese roof, the Maison de Clos is equipped. Essertes does not have its own church; it belongs to the parish Châtillens. Outside the village there is the Menhir of Essertes, also known as Pierre du dos à l' âne ( donkey ). It is equipped with 5.9 m height of the largest menhir in Switzerland and in 1996 was re-erected. In the 16th century it served as a landmark.

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