Apples, Vaud

Church of Apple

Apple is a municipality in the district of Morges in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.

Geography

Apple is located at 630 m above sea level. M., 7 km north-west of the district capital Morges ( straight line ). The scattered village extends on a knoll at the edge of the plateau, which lies at the foot of the Jura, in the Vaud Mittelland, with splendid views over the valley of Morges.

The area of ​​12.9 km ² large municipality area includes a portion of the western rim of the Central Plateau. The eastern part of the municipality is located in the catchment area of the river Morges and the side stream Le Curbit. In the far greater part of the Western community is a glacially formed on Molassehügellandschaft with vast forests and partly swampy depressions. These include the forest of Les Bougeries (up to 704 m above sea level. M. in the southwest ), the Bois de Saint -Pierre (up to 684 m above sea level. M. in the north ) and the Bois de Savoye and the Bois de Fermens in the northwest. The highest point of Apple's is at 708 m above sea level. M. reached on the Waldhöhe La Chaux- Derriere. The westernmost territory extends to the edge of Trockentals of Grand Marais, which once served as a meltwater channel at the edge of the glacial Rhone Glacier. This valley is drained to the northeast of the Veyron. From the municipality surface 1997 accounted for 5% on settlements, 48 % of forest and shrubs and 47% to agriculture.

For Apple's part, the two newly-built settlements En Lèvremont (600 m above sea level. M. ) and La Motte (615 m above sea level. M. ) on the gentle slopes of Morges Valley as well as some individual farms. The neighboring communities of Apple are in the West bale and Mollens, in the north Pampigny and Sévery, in the east Echichens and Clarmont, in the southeast Reverolle and Bussy -Chardonney and in the south yen.

Population

With 1248 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012) Apple is one of the medium-sized municipalities in the canton of Vaud. Of the 86.2 % inhabitants are French-speaking, German-speaking 7.3 % and 1.9 % portugiesischsprachig (as of 2000). The population of Apple in 1900 amounted to 546 inhabitants. After 1970 (652 inhabitants ) continued a rapid increase in population with almost a doubling of the population within 30 years.

Economy

Apple was to the 20th century a predominantly coined by agriculture village. Today, agriculture plays only a minor role as a source of income of the population. It focuses on agriculture and animal husbandry respectively dairy industry. North of the village was a small industrial zone, including the manufacture of switchgear and stainless steel tubes. More jobs are in the services available. In Apple, there is an indoor arena, a sports and education center and a regional nursing home. In recent decades, the village has developed thanks to its attractive location into a residential community. Many workers are commuters who work primarily in the towns of Morges and Lausanne.

In 1981 the company of Logitech Daniel Borel and some of his fellow students at Stanford University set up on a farm in Apple.

Traffic

The community is easily accessible via. It lies on the main road that leads from Morges to Bière. On 1 July 1895, the narrow gauge railway Bière -Apples- Morges ( BAM) was taken with a station in Apple's operating. On September 12, 1896, the inauguration of the former narrow gauge railway Apples- L'Isle (AL) followed. On the railway line from Apple to L' Isle several train connections with minibuses instead of trains to run due to the low traffic and very remote from the train stations villages.

History

Apple can look back on a long tradition of settlement. The municipal area were traces from the Neolithic period ( cupule ), found from the Bronze Age and the Roman period. The first real settlement was founded in the 5th century by the Burgundians and told probably Iplingen. This name is transformed by the Romanization probably Iplens in Aplis. Under this name the village in 1011 was first mentioned in a document, when King Rudolf III. the church presented the monastery Romainmôtier with the village. Later the spelling Aples ( 1222 ) and in 1328 the present name of locality appeared.

With the conquest of Vaud by Bern in 1536, Apple came under the administration of an exclave of the Bailiwick Romainmôtier. After the collapse of the ancien régime, the village 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 Apple was first to the district of Morges, 1803 the District Aubonne allocated.

Attractions

The medieval church of Apple's built on the foundations of a Romanesque previous building. It was remodeled in 1838 and 1905.