Chêne-Pâquier

Chêne-Pâquier
State :	Switzerland
Canton :	Vaud (VD)
District :	Jura north vaudois
BFS no. :	5908
Postal code :	1464
Coordinates :	548 909  /  180243 coordinates: 46 ° 46 '17 "  N , 6 ° 46' 11"  O ; CH1903:  five hundred and forty-eight thousand nine hundred and nine  /  180243
Height :	662  m above sea level M.
Height range :	531–727 m above sea level M.
Area :	2.11  km²
Residents:	140 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	66 inhabitants per km²
Website:	www.chene-paquier.ch
Chêne-Pâquier
Location of the municipality

Chêne-Pâquier is a municipality in the Jura-Nord vaudois district in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland .

geography

Aerial photo (1963)

Chêne-Pâquier is 662  m above sea level. M. , 10 km east of the district capital Yverdon-les-Bains (beeline). The clustered village extends in the Molasse hill country of the northern Waadtländer Mittelland , southwest of the deep Vallon des Vaux valley.

The area of ​​the community area of ​​2.1 km² covers a section of the hill country between Lake Neuchâtel and the Broyetal . The main part of the area occupied by the plateau of Chêne-Pâquier, in the southwest on the corridor Les Carralettes with 725  m above sea level. M. reached the highest point of the community. In the east and north, the Ruisseau des Vaux brook forms the border in parts. North of Chêne-Pâquier, this brook has cut a deep notch valley into the molasse layers . A small part of the municipal area lies east of the Ruisseau des Vaux and includes the Braye forest (up to 714  m above sea level ). In 1997, 3% of the municipal area was in settlements, 25% in forests and woodlands, 71% in agriculture and around 1% was unproductive land.

Chêne-Pâquier consists of the village of Le Chêne ( 662  m above sea level ), the hamlet of Le Pâquier ( 638  m above sea level ) in a small hollow of the high plateau and some individual farms. Neighboring municipalities to Chêne-Pâquier are Démoret , Molondin , Chavannes-le-Chêne and Champtauroz .

population

With 140 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2018), Chêne-Pâquier is one of the smallest municipalities in the canton of Vaud. 94.2% of the residents are French-speaking, 3.9% German-speaking and 1.0% speak Serbo-Croatian (as of 2000). The population of Chêne-Pâquier was 224 in 1850 and 172 in 1900. After that, there was a high level of emigration. Since 1960 the population has remained fairly stable at 110 inhabitants.

economy

Chêne-Pâquier still lives mainly from agriculture , especially from agriculture and cattle breeding . Outside of the primary sector there are hardly any jobs in the village. Some workers are also commuters who work mainly in Yverdon .

traffic

The community is located away from major thoroughfares on a connecting road from Molondin to Chavannes-le-Chêne . Chêne-Pâquier is connected to the public transport network through a postbus course that serves the municipalities of the hinterland from Yvonand train station .

history

Le Chêne was first mentioned in a document in 1550 under the name loz Chanoz , which is derived from the Old French word for oak . Le Pâquier was first mentioned in 1462 as Pascua and in 1517 as Pasquier . This place name goes back to the late Latin word pasquerium (pasture place, pasture area).

Since the Middle Ages , Le Chêne and Le Pâquier belonged to the lords of Saint-Martin-du-Chêne, whose castle and hamlet were on the hill northwest of Le Pâquier (now in the municipality of Molondin ). With the conquest of Vaud by Bern in 1536, Chêne-Pâquier came under the administration of the Landvogtei Yverdon . After the collapse of the Ancien Régime , the village belonged to the canton of Léman from 1798 to 1803 during the Helvetic Republic, which then became part of the canton of Vaud when the mediation constitution came into force . In 1798 it was assigned to the Yverdon district.

Attractions

See also : List of cultural assets in Chêne-Pâquier

The Reformed Church of Chêne-Pâquier is in the hamlet of Le Pâquier. The church with an oval floor plan and excellent acoustics was built in 1667 according to plans by the Bernese architect Abraham Dünz . It has a renaissance portal and the interior is kept simple. The last restoration took place between 1963 and 1973. Farmhouses have been preserved in the village, the core of which dates back to the 15th and 16th centuries. At Covet there is a bridge built in 1733 over the Ruisseau des Vaux.

Web links

Commons : Chêne-Pâquier  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Community information
• Pierre-Yves Favez: Chêne-Pâquier. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Aerial views of the village and its surroundings

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Permanent and non-permanent resident population by year, canton, district, municipality, population type and gender (permanent resident population). In: bfs. admin.ch . Federal Statistical Office (FSO), August 31, 2019, accessed on December 22, 2019 .