Saint-Cierges

State :

Switzerland

Canton :

Vaud (VD)

District :

Gros-de-Vaud

Municipality :

Montanaire

Postal code :

1064

former BFS no. :

5685

Coordinates :

546 154 / 171 188 coordinates: 46 ° 41 '23 " N , 6 ° 44' 5" O ; CH1903: 546 154 / one hundred and seventy-one thousand one hundred and eighty-eight

Height :

758 m above sea level M.

Area :

6.44 km²

Residents:

458 (December 31, 2012)

Population density :

71 inhabitants per km²

map

Parish before the merger on December 31, 2012

Until December 31, 2012, Saint-Cierges was a municipality in the Gros-de-Vaud district of the canton of Vaud in Switzerland .

On January 1, 2013, it merged with the municipalities of Chanéaz , Chapelle-sur-Moudon , Correvon , Denezy , Martherenges , Neyruz-sur-Moudon , Peyres-Possens and Thierrens to form the new municipality of Montanaire .

geography

Saint-Cierges lies at 758 m above sea level. M. , 20 kilometers northeast of the canton capital Lausanne (linear distance ). The scattered village extends on a ridge east of the Valley of Mentue , to the northeast of the Molassehöhen Jorat , in the northern Vaud Plateau .

The area of the 6.4 km² former municipal area covers a section of the Molasse hill country between the Mentue and the central Broyetal . The western boundary is formed by the Mentue, cut deep into the molasse layers , and its right side brook Oulaire . From here, the former communal soil extends east onto the slope of Saint-Cierges and onto the Le Carro plateau north of the village. In a relatively narrow strip, the area extends further east over the forest heights of Vusery ( 857 m above sea level ) and Les Bourlayes (at 861 m above sea level, the highest point of Saint-Cierges) to the headwaters of the Cerjaule , one of them left tributary of the Broye, which rises on the slopes near Corrençon. In 1997, 4% of the former municipal area was accounted for by settlements, 34% for forests and woodlands and 62% for agriculture.

The farm settlements Corrençon ( 800 m above sea level ), La Solitude ( 818 m above sea level ) and Pré de Place ( 786 m above sea level ) belong to Saint-Cierges , all in the headwaters of the Cerjaule on the eastern slope below the Bois de Savary, as well as several individual farms. Neighboring municipalities to Saint-Cierges were Ogens , Thierrens , Neyruz-sur-Moudon , Moudon , Chapelle-sur-Moudon , Boulens and Bercher .

population

With 458 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2012), Saint-Cierges was one of the small communities in the canton of Vaud. Around 50 of them live in Corrençon and the two surrounding farm settlements. 91.7% of the residents are French-speaking, 4.4% German-speaking and 1.5% English-speaking (as of 2000). The population of Saint-Cierges was still 505 in 1900. Thereafter, a decrease of around 40% to 312 inhabitants was recorded by 1970 due to strong emigration; since then the population has increased again slightly.

economy

Until the second half of the 20th century, Saint-Cierges was a predominantly agricultural village. Even today, agriculture , fruit growing , cattle breeding and forestry have an important role in the income structure of the population. Further jobs are available in local small businesses and in the service sector (including in the transport industry). With the construction of single-family houses 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 Lausanne to Thierrens . Saint-Cierges is connected to the public transport network by the buses that run on the Moudon- Thierrens and Echallens- Thierrens routes.

history

The former municipality of Saint-Cierges was already inhabited in Roman times. Numerous finds date from this time. There was probably a Roman manor here, which was later destroyed by the Alemanni . The first written mention of the place took place in 1154 under the names Sanctus Cereus and Sanctus Sergius . Later the names Saint-Ciriaco (1166), Sanctus Cyriacus and Seint Cierie (1227) and Senz Cirio (1261) appeared. The place name goes back to Saint Cyriacus.

Since the Middle Ages, Saint-Cierges was under the rule of Bercher , which initially belonged to the Lords of Cossonay and in 1420 came to the Dukes of Savoy. With the conquest of Vaud by Bern in 1536, the village came under the administration of the Bailiwick of Yverdon . After the collapse of the Ancien Régime , Saint-Cierges 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 Moudon district and in 1803 made the capital of the district of the same name. In Saint-Cierges, one of the first goods consolidations in the canton of Vaud took place in 1909 and 1910.

Attractions

A church dedicated to St. Cyriacus is mentioned as early as the middle of the 12th century. This was owned by the Canons of Saint-Maire in Lausanne and was expanded in 1698. The current building dates from 1876. The rectory was built in the late Middle Ages. In the old town center there are still some characteristic farmhouses from the 17th to 19th centuries.

Web links

Commons : Saint-Cierges - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Official website of the municipality of Saint-Cierges (French)
Aerial views of the village
Boris Anelli: Saint-Cierges. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .