Rossinière

Geschichte

Rossinière is a municipality in the Riviera-Pays-d'Enhaut district of the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.HistoryRossinière is first mentioned in 1155 as La Ransonery.GeographyRossinière has an area, of 23.4km2. Of this area, 8.92km2 or 38.2% is used for agricultural purposes, while 11.59km2 or 49.6% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 0.63km2 or 2.7% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.39km2 or 1.7% is either rivers or lakes and 1.83km2 or 7.8% is unproductive land.Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 0.8% and transportation infrastructure made up 1.7%. Out of the forested land, 43.2% of the total land area is heavily forested and 3.9% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 0.2% is used for growing crops and 10.5% is pastures and 27.5% is used for alpine pastures. Of the water in the municipality, 1.1% is in lakes and 0.6% is in rivers and streams. Of the unproductive areas, 6.0% is unproductive vegetation and 1.8% is too rocky for vegetation.The municipality was part of the Pays-d'Enhaut District until it was dissolved on 31 August 2006, and Rossinière became part of the new district of Riviera-Pays-d'Enhaut.The municipality is located near the Saane/Sarine river. It consists of the village of Rossinière and the hamlet of La Tine and scattered individual houses. In 1702, the hamlet of Cuves was threatened by the Saane river. It was moved to higher ground and renamed La Tine. A dam on the Saane river forms Lac du Vernex.