Les Tavernes

Les Tavernes was until 31 December 2011, a municipality in the district of Lavaux-Oron in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. On January 1, 2012, it merged with Oron. On the former municipality of Les Tavernes there was the old abbey skin - Cret.

Geography

Les Tavernes is located on 641 m above sea level. M., 2 km south-southwest of Oron- la -Ville and 15 km east of the canton capital Lausanne ( straight line ). The scattered settlement municipality extends in a broad valley of the Haute- Broye, on a terrace west of the Broye slightly increased in the eastern marginal zone of Vaud Mittelland.

The area of ​​2.3 km ² large former municipal area includes a portion of the upper Broyetals and the adjacent Molassehöhen. The western part of the former municipality is crossed by Bach Grenet, whose valley is flanked by the wooded area Malatrex the west by the Bois de la Chervette, in the east. At the height at Les Carboles is 734 m above sea level. M. the highest point in Les Tavernes achieved. To the northeast, the former communal land extends into the broad Talniederung Broye and to the edge of the Bois de Chaney. From the former rural community area in 1997 4 % related to settlements, 24 % of forest and shrubs, 71% to agriculture and about 1% was unproductive land.

At Les Tavernes includes the hamlets of skin Cret ( 659 m above sea level. M. ) on the western edge of the valley of the Broye, La Dause (670 m above sea level. M. ) in the valley of Grenet as well as some individual farms.

Population

With 130 inhabitants (as at 31 December 2010) Les Tavernes one of the smallest former municipalities of the canton of Vaud. Of the 97.5 % inhabitants are French-speaking, German-speaking 1.6 % and 0.8 % portugiesischsprachig (as of 2000). The population of Les Tavernes amounted in 1900 to 137 inhabitants. After that was easy migration to 1990 recorded a decrease to 101 inhabitants; Since then, the population rose again slightly.

Economy

Les Tavernes was until the second half of the 20th century, mainly coined by farming village. Even today, the crop and livestock farming have an important place in the economic structure of the population. More jobs are in small local manufacturing and services available. In recent decades, the village has developed into a residential community. Some employed persons are therefore commuters who work in the surrounding larger towns.

Traffic

The former municipality is located off the major thoroughfares on a road from Palézieux by Forel ( Lavaux). Les Tavernes has no connection to the public transport network.

History

Owes its existence to Les Tavernes the former Cistercian abbey skin - Cret, which was located in the eponymous hamlet today. With the consent of the abbey inn was constructed in 1342 on the territory to the gradually developed a small farming community. In the beginning was the name of place Frigida villa, in the 15th century Tabernae and taverna. Since about 1650 the present name has been handed down, which translates as wine bars.

After the conquest of Vaud by Bern Les Tavernes came in 1557 to the Bernese bailiff Oron. 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 was assigned to the District Oron. 1831 a school for neglected youth was founded in La Dause.

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