Saint-Oyens

Saint- Oyens is a municipality in the district of Morges in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.

Geography

Saint- Oyens is located on 731 m above sea level. M., 15 km west of the district capital Morges ( straight line ). The village is located on a slightly inclined slope to the east on the plateau south of the creek Saubrette the Jura foothills.

The area of ​​3.0 km ² large municipality area includes a portion of the plateau, at the foot of the Jura. The communal land extends from the plateau at Saint- Oyens westward across the headwaters of the village Bach Ruisseau des Rottières up in the valley of Prévondavaux. This valley is a relic from the last ice age, it was time for a certain time period as the meltwater channel at the edge of the glacial Rhone Glacier. The highest point of Saint- Oyens is 865 m above sea level. M. reached in the forest of Le Saugey on the southern flank of the Prévondavaux. From the municipality surface 1997 4 % related to settlements, 39 % of forest and woody plants and 57% to agriculture.

At Saint- Oyens include some individual farms. Neighboring municipalities of Saint- Oyens are Gimel, Essertines -sur-Rolle, Burtigny and Longirod.

Population

With 317 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012) Saint- Oyens one of the small communities of the Canton of Vaud. Of the 90.3 % inhabitants are French-speaking, German-speaking 3.8 % and 3.4 % in English (as of 2000). The population of Saint- Oyens amounted in 1900 to 141 inhabitants. After the population had decreased slightly to 1970 to 114 inhabitants, a significant population increase was recorded with a doubling of the population within 30 years since, again.

Economy

Saint- Oyens was until the second half of the 20th century, mainly coined by farming village. Still plays agriculture as a branch of the population an important role, with livestock and dairy farming dominate over to agriculture. More jobs are in small local manufacturing and services available. In recent decades, the village has developed into a residential community. Many workers are therefore commuters who engage in the larger towns along Lake Geneva their work.

Traffic

The community is located off the major thoroughfares, the main access is from role. By Postbus course, which runs from Rolle to Gimel, Saint- Oyens is connected to the public transport network.

History

The first written mention of the village was carried out in 1221 under the name Sancto Eugendo de Rotteres. The place name comes from the holy Oyend (Latin Eugendus ), Abbot of Saint- Oyend -de -Joux, today's Saint -Claude in the French Jura, back. The monks of Saint- Oyend -de -Joux founded in the Middle Ages in Saint- Oyens a chapel. The town was initially known as Saint- Oyens -de- Rottières to distinguish it from the same abbey in France. He was the seat of a vassal family of the Lords of Mont- le -Vieux ( Essertines -sur-Rolle ).

With the conquest of Vaud by Bern in 1536, Saint- Oyens came under the administration of the bailiwick of Morges. 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 Aubonne. A conflagration in 1857 fell victim to numerous houses.

Attractions

The mentioned already in the 13th century Church of Saint- Oyens was rebuilt in 1877-78. Some farmhouses dating from the 18th and 19th centuries have been preserved.

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