Oron-le-Châtel

Oron -le- Châtel 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.

Geography

Oron -le- Châtel is located at 712 m above sea level. M., 1 km east of Oron- la -Ville and 17 km east-northeast of the canton capital Lausanne ( straight line ). The village is located on a terrace east of the broad valley of the upper Broye, in the eastern marginal zone of Vaud Mittelland.

The area of ​​only 1.3 square kilometers just great former municipal area includes a portion of the Molassehöhen in the foothills. The northern boundary runs along the creek Flon, which is dug into a small erosion valley in the molasse. To the south of the former communal land extends over the terrace of Oron -le- Châtel up into the forest environment Bois de l' Erberey, which is dehydrated to Mionne. With 785 m above sea level. M. is at the height at Chesalles -sur -Oron reached the highest point of Oron -le- Châtel. From the former rural community area in 1997 accounted for 14% settlements, 35 % of forest and woody plants and 51% to agriculture.

To Oron -le- Châtel include several individual farms.

Population

With 293 inhabitants (as at 31 December2010 ) Oron -le- Châtel is one of the small former municipalities of the canton of Vaud. Of the 95.3 % inhabitants are French-speaking, German-speaking 2.2 % and 0.4 % speak Romansh (as of 2000). The population of Oron -le- Châtel amounted in 1900 to 177 inhabitants. Thereafter, through constant migration to 1980 recorded a decrease to 113 inhabitants; Since then, the population rose again sharply and doubled within 20 years.

Economy

Oron -le- Châtel was until the second half of the 20th century, mainly coined by farming village. The coal deposits in the municipal area were mined in the 18th and 19th centuries, and during the two world wars. 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. Through the construction of several houses in the past few decades, the village has developed into a residential community. Many workers are therefore commuters who work mainly in Lausanne and Vevey.

Traffic

The former municipality is traffic-infrastructure. It lies on the route from Lausanne to Bulle, from at Oron -le- Châtel a connection to Romont branches. On September 4, 1862, the railway line from Lausanne to Freiburg was taken with the Oron station in operation. For the dispersion in public transport bus services from Oron -le- Châtel ( railway station) to Oron- la -Ville, La Verrerie, after Palézieux and to Romont provide.

History

The first written mention of the name Oron was already in 515 in a document of the Abbey of Saint- Maurice. The Burgundian king Sigismund gave at the time of the Abbey, the area around Oron. From 516-1049 the name Curtis Auronum is preserved. In the following time period a part of the goods seemed again to be returned at Burgundy, for King Rudolf III. of Burgundy about 1017 left a large part of his property in the area Oron turn of the Abbey of Saint -Maurice.

From the possessions of the Abbey of the rule Oron developed in the 12th century. At the end of the 12th century falls the construction of the castle. In the 13th century, the lords of Oron, received the area as a fief of Peter of Savoy. During this century the rule Oron flourished; the members of the family occupied influential positions in the Vaud region. When the family of the lords of Oron went out in 1388, the government went as heir to the Counts of Greyerz.

With the conquest of Vaud by Bern in 1536 Oron remained first in the county of Greyerz, but came under the suzerainty of Bern. The Reformation was introduced in 1539 in Oron -le- Châtel. By buying reached the former dominion Oron 1555 Bern, the 1557 Bailiwick Oron einrichtete. Under his direct rule continued Bern 1557-1798 43 governors in a Oron. Until the mid-17th century, the abbot of Saint -Maurice possessed rights to Oron. These were exchanged on August 7, 1671 in the so-called Echange d' Oron against sovereign rights in the Valais with Bern.

After the collapse of the ancien régime Oron -le- Châtel 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. The castle fell to the Canton of Vaud, who converted it into a prison. After further changes of ownership occurred in 1936, the Association pour la conservation du Château d' Oron, which is responsible for the maintenance of buildings. The former municipality of Oron -le- Châtel in the present boundaries was in 1820 after the separation of Chesalles -sur -Oron and Bussigny -sur -Oron.

Attractions

On a ridge above the valley of the Flon, a scenic location about 100 m above the valley basin of Oron, Oron, the castle rises. It was built in the late 12th and early 13th century and is the only surviving medieval castle of Oron region. The oldest part of the present building is the round keep (13th century) at the northeast corner. The irregular building with approximately oval ground plan has a courtyard, residential buildings, which were rebuilt several times from the 14th to the 18th century, and a comprehensive battlements. The castle now houses a museum. In the Hall of Knights with a late Gothic coffered ceiling is a library.