Crassier

Crassier
State :	Switzerland
Canton :	Vaud (VD)
District :	Nyon
BFS no. :	5714
Postal code :	1263
Coordinates :	501 897  /  136667 coordinates: 46 ° 22 '27 "  N , 6 ° 9' 49"  O ; CH1903:  five hundred and one thousand eight hundred ninety-seven  /  136667
Height :	475  m above sea level M.
Height range :	454-518 m above sea level M.
Area :	2.03  km²
Residents:	1177 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	580 inhabitants per km²
Website:	www.crassier.ch
Location of the municipality

Crassier is a municipality in the Nyon district in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland .

geography

Crassier is located directly on the French border at 475  m above sea level. M. , 6 km west of the district capital Nyon (air line). The village extends along the Boiron de Nyon river in the plain between Lake Geneva and the Jura .

The area of ​​the municipal area of ​​just 2.0 km² includes a section of the plain at the foot of the Jura. The municipality floor stretches from the summit at Bois d'Ely ( 475  m above sea level ) northwards over the Boiron valley and up the area of ​​the Jura foot plain, which slopes slightly to the south. Below the hamlet of Tranchepied is 515  m above sea level. M. reached the highest point of Crassier. In 1997, 15% of the municipal area was accounted for by settlements, 13% for forests and woodlands and 72% for agriculture.

Some individual farms belong to Crassier. The neighboring communities of Crassier are La Rippe in the north-west, Chéserex in the north, Borex in the east, Arnex-sur-Nyon in the south-east, the Geneva exclave Céligny in the south-west Bogis-Bossey and Divonne-les-Bains in neighboring France .

population

Population development
year	1764	1850	1900	1950	1970	1990	2000	2016
Residents	168	162	206	277	302	512	769	1201

With 1177 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2018), Crassier is one of the smaller municipalities in the canton of Vaud. 77.9% of the residents are French-speaking, 7.4% German-speaking and 7.0% English-speaking (as of 2000). The population of Crassier was 162 in 1850 and 206 in 1900. After 1970 (302 inhabitants) a rapid population increase began with a doubling of the population within 30 years.

economy

Crassier was mainly an agricultural village until the 20th century . Today agriculture only plays a subordinate role as a source of income, it concentrates on arable farming , there is a small vineyard east of the village . Further jobs are available in trade (especially in a sawmill) and in the service sector. In the last few decades the village has developed into a residential community. Many workers are commuters who work mainly in Nyon and Geneva .

traffic

Former Crassier station building

The community has good transport connections. It is located on the main road from Nyon to Divonne-les-Bains. The Postbus course that runs from Nyon to Coppet links Crassier to the public transport network. Crassier had a small train station on the railway line from Nyon to Divonne-les-Bains , which operated from 1905 to 1962 .

history

The municipality was settled very early on, as is indicated by finds from the Neolithic , Roman times and remains of Burgundian graves. The village was first mentioned in 1123 as de Craceio , and in the 12th century the name Cracie appeared . The village has been the seat of a noble family since the Middle Ages .

With the conquest of Vaud by Bern in 1536, Crassier came under the administration of the Nyon Bailiwick . Crassier was split in two by a peace treaty between Bern and Savoy in 1564 . The French part with the castle belonged to the French community Vésenex-Crassy , which is now united with Divonne-les-Bains in the Pays de Gex . In the 18th century, Crassier became the seat of a court of law. 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 Nyon district.

Attractions

The parish church of Sainte-Marie-Madeleine, which was mentioned in 1225, was under the control of the Cistercian Abbey of Bonmont until the Reformation . The church was enlarged in 1665 and restored in 1878.

Personalities

• Suzanne Curchod (1737–1794), writer and wife of the French finance minister Jacques Necker

Web links

Commons : Crassier  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of the municipality of Crassier
• Union des Communes Vaudoises - page "Crassier"
• Germain Hausmann: Crassier. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Crassier on the ETHorama platform

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 .