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State :	Switzerland
Canton :	Vaud (VD)
District :	Lavaux-Oron
BFS no. :	5788
Postal code :	1078
Coordinates :	550 180  /  157010 coordinates: 46 ° 33 '45 "  N , 6 ° 47' 20"  O ; CH1903:  550.18 thousand  /  157010
Height :	735  m above sea level M.
Height range :	685–813 m above sea level M.
Area :	1.66  km²
Residents:	374 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	225 inhabitants per km²
Website:	www.essertes.ch
Location of the municipality

Essertes is a municipality in the Lavaux-Oron district in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland .

geography

Essertes is 735  m above sea level. M. , 3 km west-southwest of Oron-la-Ville and 13 km east-northeast of the canton capital of Lausanne (linear distance). This former farm extends to a height of the upper west Broyetals, on the eastern slope of the plateau of the Jorat , in the Vaud Plateau .

The area of ​​the 1.7 km² large municipal area comprises a section of the Molasse Heights between the Jorat and the upper reaches of the Broye . The main part of the area is occupied by the height of Essertes, which is bounded in the northwest by the valley of the Parimbot , in the southeast by that of a side stream of the Grenet. To the west, the municipality extends to Pra Donnabbé , where at 814  m above sea level. M. the highest point of Essertes is reached. In 1997, 9% of the municipal area was accounted for by settlements, 16% for forests and woodlands and 75% for agriculture.

Essertes includes the hamlet of Bretonnaire and several individual farms. The neighboring communities of Essertes are Oron , Forel (Lavaux) and Servion in the canton of Vaud and Auboranges in the canton of Friborg .

population

With 374 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2018), Essertes is one of the small communities in the canton of Vaud. 92.7% of the residents are French-speaking, 3.1% German-speaking and 1.5% Italian-speaking (as of 2000). The population of Essertes was 197 inhabitants in 1850, 162 inhabitants in 1900. Thereafter, a decrease to 116 inhabitants was recorded due to steady emigration until 1970; since then the population has increased significantly again.

economy

Essertes was a predominantly agricultural village until the second half of the 20th century . Even today, agriculture and animal husbandry have a certain place in the income structure of the population. Further jobs are available in local small businesses and in the service sector. With the construction of numerous single-family houses in the last few decades, the village has also developed into a residential community. Many workers are therefore commuters who work mainly in Lausanne .

traffic

The community is very well developed in terms of traffic. It is located on the main road from Lausanne via Oron-la-Ville to Bulle or Romont . Essertes is connected to the public transport network by a PostBus course that runs from Palézieux via Oron-la-Ville to Mézières .

history

The municipality of Essertes was already inhabited during the Neolithic , which is attested by a menhir . The first written mention of the place took place in 1154 under the name terram de Sartis ; In 1271 the name de Essertes appeared . The place name is derived from exsartum , the past participle of the late Latin word exsarire (to clear, to make arable).

The lords of Palézieux, who owned Essertes in the High Middle Ages , donated the village and its surroundings to the Cistercian Abbey of Haut-Crêt in the 12th century . After the conquest of Vaud by Bern, the village came to the Bernese bailiwick of Oron in 1557. After the collapse of the Ancien Régime , Essertes 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 Oron district. It was not until 1814, when the villages of Châtillens, Les Tavernes and Essertes separated, that the latter became an independent political municipality.

Attractions

The school building with a bell tower was built in 1848. The Maison de Clos is equipped with a broad Bern roof. Essertes does not have its own church; it belongs to the parish of Châtillens . Outside the village stands the Essertes menhir, also called Pierre du dos à l'âne (donkey back). At 5.9 m high, it is the largest menhir in Switzerland and was raised again in 1996. In the 16th century it served as a boundary stone.

Web links

Commons : Essertes  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Official website of the municipality of Essertes (French)
• Olivier Frédéric Dubuis: Essertes. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Aerial views of the village
• Menhir from Essertes-Auboranges

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 .