Gossens

Gossen was a municipality in the district of Jura-Nord Vaudois in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. On 1 January 2008 Goossens has merged with Donneloye and Mézery -près- Donneloye the new community Donneloye.

Geography

Goossens is at 538 m above sea level. M., 7 km south-east of the district capital Yverdon- les- Bains ( straight line ). The scattered village stretches along the western flank of the Mentue, opposite Donneloye, Molassehügelland in the northern Vaud Mittelland.

The area of ​​only 1.0 square kilometers just great former municipal area includes a portion of the hill country between Lake Neuchâtel and the Broyetal. The eastern boundary formed the course of the river Mentue. From here, the communal land extended westward over the slope of Gossen and the small valley of Barbeire up on the eastern slope of the ridge between the Orbeebene and the Valley of Mentue. The highest point of Gossen's was located at 592 m above sea level. M. below the court Odet. The northern border ran along the Ruisseau du Lin, who has dug through its erosive power of a valley in this slope. From the previous municipal area in 1997 accounted for 5% of settlements, 14% forest and woody plants and 80 % to agriculture.

At the hamlet of Gossen Granges -de- Goossens was one (560 m above sea level. M. ) on the slope, which is bordered by the rivers of Ruisseau du Lin and La Barbeire. Neighboring communities of Gossen were Donneloye, Bioley- Magnoux, Orzens and Cronay.

Population

With 132 inhabitants ( end of 2007) Goossens was one of the smallest municipalities in the canton of Vaud. Of the 94.7 % inhabitants are French-speaking and German-speaking 5.4 % (as of 2000). The population of Gossen amounted in 1850 to 152 residents in 1900 to 115 inhabitants. Thereafter, due to high levels of emigration to 1970 recorded a decrease to 76 inhabitants; Since then, a population increase was registered again.

Economy

Gossen still lives mainly from agriculture, especially from agriculture, from the orchards and livestock. Outside the primary sector, there are few jobs in the village. Some employed persons are also commuters who work mainly in Yverdon.

Traffic

The former municipality is located off of larger thoroughfares on a road from Donneloye after Orzens. At certain times of the day Gossen is served by bus line that runs from Yverdon Thierrens.

History

The place name derives from the Germanic personal name Gozzo. While Goossens was owned by the Knights of St. John La Chaux since the Middle Ages, the hamlet of Granges -de- Goossens (formerly called Granges de Joux ) belonged to the rule Bioley- Magnoux. With the conquest of Vaud by Bern in 1536, Goossens and Granges -de- Goossens came under the administration of the Kastlanei Bioley- Magnoux in the Bailiwick of Yverdon. 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 Goossens was assigned to the district of Yverdon.