Les Tavernes

State :

Switzerland

Canton :

Vaud (VD)

District :

Lavaux-Oron

Municipality :

Oron

Postal code :

1607

Coordinates :

552 110 / 156005 coordinates: 46 ° 33 '13 " N , 6 ° 48' 51" O ; CH1903: five hundred and fifty-two thousand one hundred and ten / 156005

Height :

641 m above sea level M.

Area :

2.29 km²

Residents:

130 (December 31, 2010)

Population density :

57 inhabitants per km²

map

Parish before the merger on December 31, 2011

Until December 31, 2011, Les Tavernes was a municipality in the Lavaux-Oron district of the canton of Vaud in Switzerland . On January 1, 2012, she merged with Oron . The former Haut-Crêt Abbey was located in the former municipality of Les Tavernes .

geography

Les Tavernes is 641 m above sea level. M. , two kilometers south-southwest of Oron-la-Ville and 15 kilometers east of the canton capital of Lausanne (as the crow flies). The scattered settlement community extends in the broad basin of the Haute-Broye, on a terrace slightly elevated west of the Broye , in the eastern edge of the Vaud Central Plateau .

The area of the 2.3 km² former municipal area includes a section of the upper Broye valley and the adjacent Molasse heights. The western former part of the municipality is traversed by the Grenet brook, whose valley is flanked to the west by the Bois de la Chervette and to the east by the Malatrex forest . At the height of Les Carboles is 734 m above sea level. M. reached the highest point of Les Tavernes. To the northeast, the former municipality extends into the broad valley of the Broye and to the edge of the Bois de Chaney . In 1997, 4% of the former municipal area was in settlements, 24% in forests and woodlands, 71% in agriculture and around 1% was unproductive land.

Les Tavernes includes the hamlets of Haut Crêt ( 659 m above sea level ) on the western edge of the Broye valley, La Dause ( 670 m above sea level ) in the Grenet valley and a few individual farms.

population

With 130 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2010) Les Tavernes is one of the smallest former municipalities in the canton of Vaud. 97.5% of the residents are French-speaking, 1.6% German-speaking and 0.8% Portuguese-speaking (as of 2000). The population of Les Tavernes was 137 in 1900. After that, slight emigration led to a decrease to 101 inhabitants by 1990; since then the population has increased again somewhat.

economy

Until the second half of the 20th century, Les Tavernes was a predominantly agricultural village. Even today, have agriculture and livestock an important role in the employment structure of the population. Further jobs are available in local small businesses and in the service sector. In the last few decades the village has also developed into a residential community. Some workers are therefore commuters who work in the surrounding larger towns.

traffic

The former municipality is located off the major thoroughfares on a connecting road from Palézieux to Forel (Lavaux) . Les Tavernes has no connection to the public transport network.

history

Les Tavernes owes its existence to the former Cistercian abbey of Haut-Crêt, which was located near the present-day hamlet of the same name. With the approval of the abbey, an inn was built on its territory in 1342, around which a small farming settlement gradually developed. At the beginning the place was called Frigida villa , in the 15th century Tabernae and in taverna . The current name, which translates as wine bars , has been handed down since around 1650 .

After the conquest of the Vaud by Bern, Les Tavernes came to the Bernese provincial governor of Oron in 1557 . 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 Oron district. In 1831 a school for neglected young people was founded in La Dause.

Attractions

Web links

Commons : Les Tavernes - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Community information
Olivier Frédéric Dubuis: Les Tavernes. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Aerial views of the village