Ursins
Church of Ursins
Ursins is a municipality in the district of Jura-Nord Vaudois in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.
Geography
Ursins is located on 645 m above sea level. M., 5 km south-southeast of the district capital Yverdon- les- Bains ( straight line ). The scattered village extends on the Northern Slope of the broad ridge between the Orbeebene and the Valley of Mentue, in the Vaud Mittelland.
The area of 3.4 km ² large municipality area includes a portion of the hill country between the Orbeebene and the Broyetal. The area is occupied by gently northward sloping open slope of Ursins. In the West, the headwaters of the Niauque is (inflow of Buron ), in the east that of the Ruisseau du Lin, which flows to Mentue. To the south of the municipality floor extends to the edge of the large forest, Grand Bois d' Essertines. Here is 688 m above sea level. M. Bois de la Tailla reached the highest point of Ursins. From the municipality surface 1997 4 % related to settlements, 20 % of forest and woody plants and 76 % to agriculture.
To Ursins include some individual farms. The neighboring communities of Ursins are in the north Pomy, northeast Cronay, in the southeast Orzens, southwest Essertines -sur -Yverdon and to the northwest Valeyres -sous- Ursins.
Population
With 205 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012) Ursins one of the small communities of the Canton of Vaud. Of the 96.5 % inhabitants are French-speaking and German-speaking 1.2 % (as of 2000). The population of Ursins amounted in 1900 to 201 inhabitants. After the population had decreased to 1970 to 127 persons, a slight increase in population was registered again since then.
Economy
Ursins still lives mainly from agriculture, especially from agriculture and animal husbandry. Outside the primary sector, there is little employment in the village. Many workers are also commuters who engage primarily in Yverdon their work.
Traffic
The community is conveniently technically quite well developed, even though it is off the major thoroughfares. The highway connecting Yverdon- Sud in 1981 opened A1 (Lausanne -Yverdon ) is approximately 6 km from the town center. By Postbus course, which runs from Yverdon Bercher, Ursins is connected to the public transport network.
History
The territory of Ursins been inhabited since the Roman era. Probably the place was used as a sanctuary, which could be reconstructed due to the excavations carried out. It remains of a temple have been found dating from the 1st century AD and a small amphitheater.
The first written mention of the village was carried out in 1009 under the name de Ursingis. Later Ursens ( 1282), Ursin ( 1376 ) and Orsens ( 1453) the names Ursi ( 1174 ), the present name Ursins ( 1228 ) appeared after that. Same as the name of the neighboring village of Orzens the name comes probably from the Burgundian people named Urs (from the Latin ursus, Bear) and means for the people of Urs.
Since the Middle Ages Ursins was under the rule of Belmont. With the conquest of Vaud by Bern in 1536, the village came under the administration of the Bailiwick of Yverdon, the lower courts had held the Kastlanei Belmont. After the collapse of the ancien régime Ursins 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
The Reformed Church of Saint -Martin stands on the site of the former Roman temple. It received its present form the construction of new 1702nd The church tower was built on the foundations of a Roman tower, whose bricks to a height of about one meter above the ground are still visible. In the center some stately farmhouses dating from the 18th and 19th centuries have been preserved.