Peney-le-Jorat
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Peney -le- Jorat was a municipality in the district of Gros- de -Vaud in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. Peney -le- Jorat merged on 1 July 2011 with several other municipalities to the new community Jorat Menthue.
Geography
Peney -le- Jorat is located on 841 m above sea level. Level, 15 km north- northeast of the canton capital Lausanne ( straight line ). The scattered village extends on a plateau on the Northern Slope of the high plateau of the Jorat, in the Vaud Mittelland.
The area of 4.5 km ² large former municipal area includes a portion of the Molassehöhen between the Mentue in the West and the Middle Broyetal in the east. The main part of the territory occupied by the plateau at Peney -le- Jorat, which is bordered in the north- west and north from the valley of the Ruisseau de Neyrevaux, on the east side of his Bach Les Gaudines. To the west of the municipality of soil ranges on the forest hills Le Faz ( 885 m above sea level. M. ). To the south, the area extends to the wooded heights of the Jorat and reached in the forest area Les Gares at 915 m above sea level. M. the highest point of Peney -le- Jorat. From the municipality surface 1997 accounted for 5% on settlements, 39 % of forest and shrubs and 56% to agriculture.
The municipality Peney -le- Jorat the hamlet Montmeillan (847 m above sea level. M. ) were east to the village subsequently as well as several individual farms. Neighboring communities of Peney -le- Jorat were Corcelles -le- Jorat, Villars- Tiercelin, Bussy -Chardonney, Villars- Mendraz, Sottens and Hermenches.
Population
With 378 inhabitants ( 31 December 2010) Peney -le- Jorat was one of the small communities of the Canton of Vaud. Of the 91.4% inhabitants are French-speaking, 3.5 % and 3.2 % portugiesischsprachig in German (as of 2000). The population of Peney -le- Jorat amounted in 1900 to 283 inhabitants. Thereafter, through constant migration to 1980 recorded a decrease to 196 inhabitants; Since then, the population grew significantly again.
Economy
Peney -le- Jorat was until the second half of the 20th century, mainly coined by farming village. Even today, the crop and livestock farming have an important place in the economic structure of the population. More jobs are in small local manufacturing and services available. At the Ruisseau de Neyrevaux was formerly a mill. Through the construction of several houses in the past few decades, the village has developed into a residential community. Many workers are therefore commuters who work mainly in Lausanne and in Moudon.
Traffic
Peney -le- Jorat is off the major thoroughfares on a road from Corcelles -le- Jorat to Saint -Cierges. By Postbus course, which runs from Thierrens after Froideville, Peney -le- Jorat is connected to the public transport network.
History
The first written mention of the village was carried out in 1154 under the name Pinoy and Pinetum. 1228 appeared the name Piney and then the spelling Pigney is preserved. The place name derives from the Latin word pinetum ( pine forest ).
The area around Peney -le- Jorat belonged in the Middle Ages the bishops of Lausanne and came in the 12th century to the Lords of Palézieux. This left the clearing on the island in 1154 shortly before Cistercian abbey founded in skin - Cret, which also had the right to use the extended, the Bishop of Lausanne belonging forests of Jorat.
After the conquest of Vaud by Bern, the village came to the Bernese bailiff, Oron in 1557 and formed a relatively distant from the trunk area exclave. After the collapse of the ancien régime Peney -le- Jorat belonged from 1798 to 1803 during the Helvetic Republic to the canton of Geneva, who came up then with the enactment of the Act of Mediation in the canton of Vaud. 1798 was assigned to the District Oron.
Attractions
The Church of Peney -le- Jorat was built in 1812 and added to the bell tower in 1842. In the old town and some characteristic farmhouses from the 18th and 19th centuries have been preserved.