Ferreyres

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

Geography

Ferreyres is located on 560 m above sea level. Level, 16 km north of the district capital Morges ( straight line ). The scattered village extends along an inclined towards the south slope above the valley of the Venoge, in the Vaud Mittelland, at the foot of the Jura.

The area of ​​3.1 km ² large municipality area includes a portion of the western rim of the Vaud Mittelland. The southern boundary runs along the Venoge, which flows through a deepened the Jura foothills in the hanging valley. From the Venoge the communal land extends northward to the height of Les Aleveys (up to 590 m above sea level. M. ), to the northwest over the little valley of the Voualève (left side waters of the Venoge ) and the Lower Jurassic slope, which is heavily forested (La Bossenaz ). The highest point of Ferreyres is located on 697 m above sea level. M. From the municipality surface 1997 accounted for 5% of settlements, 42 % of forest and shrubs, 52 % to agriculture and about 1% was unproductive land.

To Ferreyres include some individual farms. Neighboring communities of Ferreyres are La Sarraz Chevilly, Moiry, Romainmôtier -Envy and an exclave of Croy.

Population

With 297 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012) Ferreyres one of the small communities of the Canton of Vaud. Of the 89.6 % inhabitants are French-speaking, German-speaking 5.4 % and 2.3 % Italian-speaking (as of 2000). The population of Ferreyres amounted in 1850 to 164 residents in 1900 to 157 inhabitants. Since 1980 (125 inhabitants), a rapid population increase was observed with a doubling of the population within 20 years.

Economy

Ferreyres was until the second half of the 20th century, mainly coined by farming village. Even today, the farming and fruit growing have an important role in the economic structure of the population. More jobs are in small local manufacturing and services available. In Croset at the Venoge earlier there was a mill, now is there a sawmill. In recent decades, the village has developed into a residential community. Many workers are therefore commuters who work in the surrounding towns as well as in the Lausanne area.

Traffic

The community is located off of larger thoroughfares, on a connecting road which leads from La Sarraz to L' Isle. By Postbus course, which runs on this route, Ferreyres is connected to the public transport network.

History

The territory of Ferreyres was settled very early. In the forest of Bossenaz were from the La Tène period up to 600 AD, operated on the territory of today's village in the period from 500 to 800 AD, numerous iron-melting furnace. Furthermore, they discovered a burial ground dating from the Early Middle Ages, and a hoard of coins from the 11-12. Century. The first written mention of the village was 814 under the name Forrarias. Later, the names Ferrieris (978 ), Villa Ferrerias ( 981 ) Ferrarias ( 1049 ) published, Ferreria ( 1141 ) and Ferreres ( 1174 ). The name goes back to the previous activity, the iron melts (from the Latin ferrum, iron) back.

In the Middle Ages the Lausanne cathedral chapter, the monastery Romainmôtier and the Abbey of Saint -Maurice possessed goods on the territory of Ferreyres. After the village briefly belonged to the lords of Grandson, it was restored in 1130 at the Priory Romainmôtier. Since 1141 Ferreyres was under the rule of La Sarraz.

With the conquest of Vaud by Bern in 1536 Ferreyres came under the administration of the Bailiwick Romainmôtier. 1598 was the municipality of La Sarraz affiliated. After the collapse of the ancien régime Ferreyres 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 Cossonay. It was not until 1818 Ferreyres was an independent municipality again.

Attractions

In the center some characteristic farmhouses from the 16th to 19th centuries have been preserved. Ferreyres does not have its own church, it belongs since the Reformation the parish of La Sarraz.