Thierrens

State :

Switzerland

Canton :

Vaud (VD)

District :

Gros-de-Vaud

Municipality :

Montanaire

Postal code :

1410

former BFS no. :

5689

Coordinates :

547 824 / 172656 coordinates: 46 ° 42 '11 " N , 6 ° 45' 23" O ; CH1903: five hundred forty-seven thousand eight hundred and twenty-four / 172656

Height :

768 m above sea level M.

Area :

8.72 km²

Residents:

619 (December 31, 2012)

Population density :

71 inhabitants per km²

map

Parish before the merger on December 31, 2012

Until December 31, 2012, Thierrens 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 Saint-Cierges to form the new municipality of Montanaire .

geography

Thierrens lies at 768 m above sea level. M. , 24 kilometers northeast of the canton capital of Lausanne (linear distance ). The scattered village extends on a slightly inclined to the northwest slope, on a high plateau in the northern continuation of the Jorat , in the northern Vaud Plateau .

The area of the 8.7 km² former municipal area comprises a section of the Molasse hill country between the Mentue and the central Broyetal . The former municipality area extends to an average of 780 m above sea level. M. located plateau, which forms the watershed between these two rivers. In the north the high plateau becomes through the forest Bois de la Rigne ( 810 m above sea level ), in the south through the forest-covered hills La Commounaille ( 852 m above sea level ) and Vusery (at 855 m above sea level the highest point von Thierrens). In the west the area extends into the valley of the Augine (tributary of the Mentue). To the east, the former municipal area extends into the headwaters of the Cerjaule , the Bois des Tailles and the headwaters of the Lembe with the forests of Chalembert and Pessounet . In 1997, 5% of the former municipal area was accounted for by settlements, 23% for forests and woodlands and 72% for agriculture.

Thierrens has numerous individual farms on the plateau. Neighboring communities of Thierrens were Denezy , Neyruz-sur-Moudon , Saint-Cierges , Ogens and Correvon in the canton of Vaud and the exclave of Vuissens in the canton of Friborg .

population

With 619 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2012) Thierrens was one of the smaller communities in the canton of Vaud. 92.2% of the residents are French-speaking, 3.8% Portuguese-speaking and 2.3% German-speaking (as of 2000). The population of Thierrens was 720 in 1850 and 607 in 1900. Thereafter, a further decrease of around 40% to 375 inhabitants was recorded by 1970 due to strong emigration; since then the population has increased significantly again.

economy

Until the middle of the 20th century, Thierrens was a predominantly agricultural village. Even today, arable farming , fruit growing and animal husbandry have a certain importance in the income structure of the population. Since the 1950s, several craft and service companies, including a medical care center, have settled in Thierrens. 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, some of whom drive to work as far as Moudon, Lausanne and Yverdon-les-Bains .

traffic

The former community is very well developed in terms of traffic. It is located at the intersection of the roads from Yverdon to Moudon and from Lausanne via Thierrens to Granges-près-Marnand . As an important crossing point, Thierrens is connected to the public transport network by postbus courses to Moudon, Yverdon, Echallens , Bercher and Froideville .

history

The municipality of Thierrens was already settled in the Bronze Age. During the Roman era a road ran through what is now Thierrens. The place was first mentioned in a document at the beginning of the 11th century under the name Teoderinco . The names Tierens (around 1150), Tyerens and Thyerens (1154), Tierrens , Thyerrens (1228) and Tierreins (1238) appeared later . The place name goes back to the Burgundian proper name Þeudar (Theudarius) and means for the people of Þeudar .

In the Middle Ages, Thierrens belonged to the Belmont rule , which was under the Lords of Grandson. In 1229 the village came to the Lausanne cathedral chapter. With the conquest of Vaud by Bern in 1536, Thierrens came under the administration of the Moudon Bailiwick .

The Thierrens incident on January 25, 1798 was the reason for the invasion of the French troops in Switzerland and helped the Vaud revolution to break out. In January 1798, General Philippe Romain Ménard , who commanded the French troops in the Pays de Gex , had promised Vaud his support in the revolution against the Bernese lords. Ménard sent his adjutant Autier to General Weiss, the head of the Bernese troops, in Yverdon to ask him to leave the Vaud region. Autier and his followers, including two French cavalry soldiers, moved to Yverdon via Lausanne and Moudon. When he came to Thierrens late in the evening on January 25th, a quarrel broke out with the villagers who had gathered for a possible defense. In the course of the conflict the two cavalry soldiers from France were killed. General Ménard saw this as a violation of international law and took the incident as the occasion for his invasion of Switzerland on January 28, 1798.

After the collapse of the Ancien Régime , Thierrens 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.

Attractions

The Saint-Martin church was first mentioned in the 12th century. Remains of the Romanesque building are preserved in the nave, the choir is Gothic . The stained glass window with the Crucifixion (1340) in the choir is significant; the original is now in the Musée cantonal d'archéologie et d'histoire in Lausanne. In the 17th century the church was expanded and rebuilt. The rectory dates from the 16th century. Some characteristic farmhouses from the 18th and 19th centuries have been preserved in the old town center.

Web links

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

Official website of the municipality of Thierrens (French)
Emmanuel Abetel: Thierrens. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Aerial views of the village