Giez VD

VD is the abbreviation for the canton of Vaud in Switzerland and is used to avoid confusion with other entries of the name Giez .

Giez
State :	Switzerland
Canton :	Vaud (VD)
District :	Jura north vaudois
BFS no. :	5559
Postal code :	1429
Coordinates :	537 242  /  184 585 coordinates: 46 ° 48 '34 "  N , 6 ° 36' 59"  O ; CH1903:  537242  /  one hundred and eighty-four thousand five hundred and eighty-five
Height :	529  m above sea level M.
Height range :	467–618 m above sea level M.
Area :	4.76  km²
Residents:	410 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	86 inhabitants per km²
Website:	www.giez.ch
Giez Castle
Location of the municipality

Giez ([ ʒje ] or [ ʒi ], French-Provençal [ (a) ʣi ]) is a municipality in the district of Jura-Nord vaudois in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland .

geography

Giez lies at 529  m above sea level. M. , 4 km north-northwest of the district capital Yverdon-les-Bains (air line). The village extends on a slightly south-sloping slope of a plateau at the southern foot of the Jura , between the Arnon valley and the west bank of Lake Neuchâtel .

The area of ​​the 4.8 km² municipal area includes a section at the southern foot of the Jura. In the south the area extends into the lowlands of the Le Grandsonnet brook , to the west as far as the Bois des Tassonnières forest . To the north, the municipality extends over the open slope to the forest height Le Miriau , on the 613  m above sea level. M. the highest point of Giez is reached. To the north of this hill is the Bois de la Râpe forest , which covers the southern side of the Arnon valley. The course of the Arnon river forms the northern border of Giez. In 1997, 6% of the municipal area was accounted for by settlements, 36% by forests and woodlands and 58% by agriculture.

The new housing estate Petit Montborget ( 565  m above sea level ) north of the village and some individual farms belong to Giez . The neighboring municipalities of Giez are Valeyres-sous-Montagny , Orges , Vugelles-La Mothe , Novalles , Fontaines-sur-Grandson , Fiez and Grandson .

population

With 410 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2018), Giez is one of the small communities in the canton of Vaud. 95.1% of the residents are French-speaking, 3.5% German-speaking and 0.6% speak Albanian (as of 2000). The population of Giez was 294 in 1850 and 289 in 1900. After a period of emigration (211 inhabitants in 1950), a significant increase in population has been recorded, especially in recent years.

economy

Until the middle of the 20th century, Giez was mainly an agricultural village. Even today, thanks to the fertile soils on the Giez plateau, agriculture is still of great importance, and there are also vegetable crops . There are other jobs in local small businesses. In the last few decades Giez has developed into a residential community. Many workers are therefore commuters who work mainly in nearby Yverdon.

traffic

The community is located away from the major thoroughfares, but can be easily reached via cantonal roads from Yverdon or Grandson . The closest connection to the A5 motorway (Yverdon-Neuchâtel) is around 4 km from the town center. Giez is connected to the public transport network via the Postbus course, which runs from Yverdon to Novalles .

history

The municipality was already settled in Roman times, which is attested by the remains of a villa. In addition, a Burgundian burial ground was discovered. The place was first mentioned in a document in 1011 under the name Gies . In the following years numerous other spellings appeared: Gician (1100), Giei and Gis (1154), Gyz (1179), for the first time Giez (1199), Giacum (1297) and Gye (1364). The place name is traced back to the Gallo-Roman Gaiacum (court of Gaius ).

In the Middle Ages , the Cistercian Abbey of Haut-Crêt and the Romainmôtier Monastery owned land in Giez. The nobles of Giez have been attested since the 12th century. Later the place belonged to the lordship of Grandson and in 1476 served Charles the Bold as an army camp before the Battle of Grandson . After 1476 Grandson became a bailiwick under the common rule of Bern and Freiburg . After the collapse of the Ancien Régime , Giez 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 .

Attractions

See also : List of cultural assets in Giez

Today's reformed village church of Saint-Pierre served as the parish church of Grandson until 1438 . Parts of the choir are Romanesque and date from the 11th century. The nave was redesigned in the 15th century; there were further renovations at the end of the 17th century.

Near the church is the castle, which was built for the de Pierre family in the 15th and 16th centuries. It consists of two wings that are connected by a square residential tower and a hexagonal stair tower. The castle, which is still privately owned today, was extensively renovated in 1816. Another interesting building is the Maison des Tourelles with a stair tower from 1635 and other small turrets. In the old town center there are some typical farmhouses from the 17th to 19th centuries.

Web links

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

• Official website of the municipality of Giez (French)
• Philippe Heubi: Giez. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Aerial photography

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 . 
2. ↑ Florence Cattin, Giez VD (Grandson) in: Dictionnaire toponymique des communes suisses - Lexicon of Swiss community names - Dizionario toponomastico dei comuni svizzeri (DTS | LSG) , Center de dialectologie, Université de Neuchâtel, Verlag Huber, Frauenfeld / Stuttgart / Vienna 2005 , ISBN 3-7193-1308-5 and Éditions Payot, Lausanne 2005, ISBN 2-601-03336-3 , p. 386f.