Oppens
Oppens
Oppens is a municipality in the district of Gros- de -Vaud in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.
Geography
Oppens is located on 556 m above sea level. Level, 23 km north of the canton capital Lausanne ( straight line ). The scattered village stretches along the west slope of the Sauteru, Molassehügelland in the northern Vaud Mittelland.
The area of 3.6 km ² large municipality area includes a portion of the hill country between the Orbeebene and Broye. The western part of the municipality is occupied by gently against the Sauteru inclined slope Oppens, which is bounded on the west and north through the little valley of the Greyle. At this slope is on the Upper Fin 665 m above sea level. M. reached the highest point of Oppens. The eastern part of the municipality comprises the partially only 500 m wide plateau of Tuilière d' Oppens, which is bordered in the west by its tributary Foirause Sauteru respectively, in the east of the Mentue and on the hallway Poget 597 m above sea level. M. reached. From the municipality surface 1997 4 % came from settlements, 27 % of forest and shrubs, 68 % to agriculture and slightly less than 1% was unproductive land.
To Oppens the hamlet Tuilière d' Oppens include (560 m above sea level. M. ) on the plateau of eastern municipality part opposite Oppens as well as some individual farms. The neighboring communities of Oppens are in the northeast Bioley- Magnoux, East Ogens, in the southeast Bercher, in the south Rueyres, southwest Pailly and to the northwest and north Orzens.
Population
With 182 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012) Oppens is one of the small communities of the Canton of Vaud. Of the 84.7 % inhabitants are French-speaking, 10.0 % and 4.7 % portugiesischsprachig in German (as of 2000). The population of Oppens amounted in 1900 to 257 inhabitants. After the population had decreased to 1970 by more than half to 120 people, a population increase was registered again since then.
Economy
Oppens was until the second half of the 20th century, mainly coined by farming village. Even today, the farming, growing vegetables and fruit culture have an important role in the economic structure of the population. More jobs are in small local manufacturing and services available, including a metal construction company. The water power of the Sauteru was previously used by a mill and a sawmill. In Tuilière d' Oppens in the 19th century there was a brickyard. In recent decades, Oppens has also developed into a residential community. Some employed persons are therefore commuters who work mainly in Yverdon.
Traffic
The community is located off the major thoroughfares, on a road from Vuarrens after Donneloye. By Postbus course, which runs from Yverdon Bercher, Oppens is connected to the public transport network. The bus Bercher after Thierrens also serves the hamlet Tuilière d' Oppens.
History
The first documentary mention of the place in 1163 under the name Open over 1224 appeared the name Oupeins. The name goes back to the Burgundian personal names Audebad and means for the people of Audebad.
Since the Middle Ages Oppens belonged to the rule Bioley- Magnoux. With the conquest of Vaud by Bern in 1536, the village came under the administration of the Bailiwick of Yverdon. After the collapse of the ancien régime Oppens 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 of Yverdon.
Attractions
In the center are some typical farmhouses dating from the 18th and 19th centuries, a stately schoolhouse with belltower are obtained. Oppens does not have its own church, it belongs to the parish Orzens.