Hermenches
Hermenches
Hermenches is a municipality in the district Broye Vully the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.
Geography
Hermenches is located on 679 m above sea level. Level, 24 km southwest of the district town Payerne ( straight line ). The farming village extends on a ridge east of the Valley of Bressonne, on the Nordostabdachung of the high plateau of the Jorat, in the Vaud Mittelland.
The area of 4.8 km ² large municipality area includes a portion in the northeastern part of the high plateau of the Jorat. The central part of the area occupied by the height of Hermenches, which is bounded on the west by the valley of the MERINE in the east of that of Bressonne. These two valleys are deeply incised into the molasse. In the north- east of the village on the hill ground enough for Le Mont ( 728 m above sea level. M. ). The southern part of the municipality is divided by the valley of the Ruisseau de Corcelles, a left tributary of the Bressonne, and its tributaries, including the Ruisseau de Cuchepan. The highest point of Hermenches is 834 m above sea level. M. in the forest Bois de Ban achieved in the southwest of the village on the ascent to Joratplateau. From the municipality surface 1997 6 % came from settlements, 29 % of forest and woody plants and 65 % to agriculture.
To Hermenches include Hofsiedlungen Moille -Robert (660 m above sea level. M. ) and Moille - Cugy ( 741 m above sea level. M. ) on the ridge of Hermenches, Méleries (740 m above sea level. M. ) above the valley of Ruisseau de Corcelles as well as several individual farms. Neighboring communities of Hermenches are Moudon, Rossenges, Syens Vucherens, Ropraz, Corcelles -le- Jorat, Jorat Menthue.
Population
With 364 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012) Hermenches one of the small communities of the Canton of Vaud. Of the 95.4 % inhabitants are French-speaking, German-speaking 2.1 % and 0.7 % Italian-speaking (as of 2000). The population of Hermenches amounted in 1900 to 317 inhabitants. Thereafter, until 1970, by strong emigration a decrease to 194 inhabitants recorded; Since then, the population increased, however, began to increase considerably.
Economy
Hermenches was until the second half of the 20th century, mainly coined by farming village. Even today, the farming, fruit growing and cattle breeding have an important role in the economic structure of the population. More jobs are in small local manufacturing and services available. With the construction of some houses in the last decades the village has also developed into a residential community. Some employed persons are therefore commuters who work mainly in Moudon and Lausanne.
Traffic
The community is located off the major thoroughfares, yet is within easy reach of Moudon. By Postbus course, which runs from Moudon vie Villars- Mendraz after Thierrens, Hermenches is connected to the public transport network.
History
The first written mention of the village was carried out in 1254 under the name Ermeiges. Later, the names villa de Ermenges (1340 ) published, Herma Inge ( 1453) and Hermenges in the 17th century. The name goes back to the Burgundian personal names Harimôd and means for the people of Harimôd.
Hermenches was probably founded in the 13th century by monks of the Cistercian monastery skin - Cret, who made the reclaimed land on the eastern slopes of the Jorat. With the conquest of Vaud by Bern in 1536 Hermenches came under the administration of the bailiwick Moudon. From the 16th to the 18th century the village formed its own little rule. After the collapse of the ancien régime Hermenches 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 Moudon.
Attractions
The village school house with bell tower and including a chapel was built in 1761. The origins of the castle go back to the year 1648; later, the building was rebuilt several times and now serves as a retirement and nursing home. In the center some characteristic farmhouses from the 18th and 19th centuries have been preserved.