Oron-la-Ville

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Oron-la-Ville
Oron-la-Ville coat of arms
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Canton of VaudCanton of Vaud Vaud (VD)
District : Lavaux-Oronw
Municipality : Oroni2
Postal code : 1610
Coordinates : 553 042  /  158005 coordinates: 46 ° 34 '18 "  N , 6 ° 49' 34"  O ; CH1903:  553,042  /  158005
Height : 631  m above sea level M.
Area : 3.11  km²
Residents: 1438 (December 31, 2010)
Population density : 462 inhabitants per km²
Website: www.oron-la-ville.ch
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Parish before the merger on December 31, 2011

Oron-la-Ville was until December 31, 2011 a municipality and capital of the Lavaux-Oron district of the canton of Vaud in Switzerland . In Roman times the place was called Uromagus . On January 1, 2012, it merged with Bussigny-sur-Oron , Châtillens , Chesalles-sur-Oron , Ecoteaux , Oron-le-Châtel , Palézieux , Les Tavernes , Les Thioleyres and Vuibroye to form the new municipality of Oron .

geography

Oron-la-Ville lies at 631  m above sea level. M. , 16 kilometers east-northeast of the canton capital Lausanne (linear distance ). The village extends on both sides of the Le Flon stream , in a wide basin on the upper reaches of the Broye , east of the heights of the Jorat , in the eastern edge of the Vaud Central Plateau .

The area of ​​the 3.1 km² former municipal area includes a section of the upper Broye valley and the adjacent slopes. The slightly winding course of the Broye forms the western border. From here, the former municipality extends eastward over the wide valley floor to the adjacent lower slopes of the pre-alpine Molasse hill country and into the valley of the Flon. Near the forest Bois de l'Erberey is 707  m above sea level. M. reached the highest point of Oron-la-Ville. In the far south, the area also includes the Bois de Chaney . In 1997, 17% of the former municipal area was accounted for by settlements, 15% for forests and woodlands and 68% for agriculture.

Oron-la-Ville has a number of new quarters and several individual courtyards.

population

With 1,438 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2010), Oron-la-Ville is one of the medium-sized former municipalities in the canton of Vaud; it is the largest former parish in the Oron district in terms of population. 90.3% of the residents are French-speaking, 3.2% German-speaking and 2.4% Portuguese-speaking (as of 2000). Oron-la-Ville had a population of 568 in 1900. In the course of the 20th century the population increased slowly but continuously; only during the 1980s was an increased population increase recorded.

economy

Oron-la-Ville was a predominantly agricultural village until the beginning of the 20th century . Today agriculture and livestock farming have only a minor role in the income structure of the population.

With the connection to the Lausanne – Bern railway line (1862) and improved transport links, Oron-la-Ville developed into a regional center for trading and processing agricultural products from the area. Monthly markets have been held since 1733. The settlement of industrial and commercial enterprises did not take place until the 20th century.

Today Oron-la-Ville is home to companies in the building trade, information technology, joinery, a printing company and various other small businesses. As a regional center, the municipality performs its functions as a service center for the daily needs of the place and its surrounding area. The tertiary economic sector also has by far the greatest number of gainfully employed people. Oron-la-Ville has several retirement and nursing homes as well as a cinema.

With the construction of many single-family houses in recent decades, the village has also developed into a residential community. Numerous workers are therefore commuters who work mainly in Lausanne and Vevey .

traffic

The former community is well developed in terms of traffic. It is located at the intersection of the roads from Lausanne to Bulle or Romont and from Moudon to Vevey .

In the immediate vicinity of Oron-la-Ville, but outside the municipal area, there are two train stations. The Oron station on the main Lausanne-Friborg line, which went into operation on September 4, 1862, is located in the Oron-le-Châtel area on the slope above the village. To the west of the Broye is the Châtillens station on the branch line from Moudon to Palézieux, which was inaugurated on August 25, 1876. Bus routes from Oron-la-Ville to Palézieux-Gare, to Mézières , to La Verrerie and to Romont ensure the fine distribution of public transport .

history

Oron-la-Ville was already settled in Roman times, as it was on the important military road that led from Aventicum (Avenches) through the Broyetal and along the east bank of Lake Geneva via Octodurum (Martigny) to the Great Saint Bernard . The Roman settlement was named Uromagus and was listed in various Roman street directories. Uromagus originally comes from the Celtic : uro means beef and magos means market. The less well-known names Viromagus and Bromago have also come down to us from Roman times . However, little is known archaeologically of this Roman settlement; the finds are limited to Roman column drums and a few coins.

The first written mention of the name Oron was made in 515 in a document from the Abbey of Saint-Maurice . The Burgundian King Sigismund gave the area around Oron to the abbey. The name Curtis Auronum has been passed down from 516 to 1049 . In the following period, some of the goods seemed to have returned to Burgundy, because King Rudolf III. of Burgundy left a large part of its holdings in the Oron area to the Abbey of Saint-Maurice in 1017.

From the abbey's possessions, the Oron rule developed in the 12th century, to which the Friborg areas around Attalens and Bossonnens as well as part of Vevey came through marriage . The center of the rule was Oron Castle, which is now in Oron-le-Châtel . In the 13th century, the lords of Oron received the area as a fief from Peter of Savoy . During this century the Oron rule flourished; the members of the family held influential posts in Vaud. When the family of the Lords of Oron died out in 1388, the rule passed as inheritance to the Counts of Gruyères.

With the conquest of Vaud by Bern in 1536, Oron initially remained with the county of Gruyères, but came under the suzerainty of Bern. The Reformation was introduced in Oron-la-Ville in 1539. By purchase, the former Oron dominion came to Bern in 1555, which established the Oron Bailiwick in 1557. This included only the eastern part of today's Oron district along the upper reaches of the Broye and, as an exclave, the municipality of Peney-le-Jorat , while the villages in the catchment area of ​​Bressonne and Carrouge belonged to the Bailiwick of Moudon . Under his direct rule, Bern installed 43 bailiffs in Oron from 1557 to 1798. The Abbot of Saint-Maurice still held rights to Oron until the middle of the 17th century. These were exchanged on August 7, 1671 in the so-called Echange d'Oron for rights of rule in Valais with Bern.

After the collapse of the Ancien Régime , Oron-la-Ville 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 . It became the capital of the Oron district, to which the communities on the eastern slope of the Jorat also came.

Attractions

The reformed parish church of Oron-la-Ville was built in 1678 according to plans by Abraham Dünz on the site of a medieval chapel. Like the model built by the same architect in Chêne-Pâquier , it has an oval floor plan. The Hôtel de Ville (town hall) dates from 1733. The Oron Castle is located in the municipality of Oron-le-Châtel .

photos

  • Le Bourg

  • Le Bourg

  • school

  • reformed Church

  • Catholic Church

Web links

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