Lonay
Lonay is a municipality in the district of Morges in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.
Geography
Lonay is located at 416 meters above sea level. M., 2.5 km north-east of the district capital Morges ( straight line ). The village is located on a sloping hillside to the south, over the Talniederung the creek Le Bief: a scenic location about 50 m above the lake level of Lake Geneva.
The area of 3.7 km ² large municipality area includes a portion of the Vaud Central Plateau north of Lake Geneva. The communal land ranges from the lower reaches of Bief in a wide traversed by the main road strands valley floor north across the slope of Lonay to an open trough in the headwaters of Bief. This trough is flanked to the east from the plateau of Echichens, in the west of the hill Cret Blanc, on the 475 m above sea level. M. the highest point of Lonay is achieved. From the municipal area in 1997 represent 31%, settlements, 7% of the forest and shrubs, 61% to agriculture and slightly less than 1% was unproductive land.
To Lonay include the hamlet Roman ( 436 m above sea level. M. ) on the hillside west of the village, and several commercial and industrial districts in the valley of Bief. Neighboring communities of Lonay are Morges, Echichens, Bremblens, Echandens, Denges and Préverenges.
Population
With 2421 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012) Lonay belongs to the medium-sized municipalities in the canton of Vaud. Of the 84.7 % inhabitants are French-speaking, German-speaking 5.8 % and 3.1 % Italian-speaking (as of 2000). The population of Lonay amounted in 1850 to 439 inhabitants, 1900 to 462 inhabitants. Since 1950 (534 inhabitants), a rapid population increase was recorded with a quadrupling of the population within 50 years.
Economy
Lonay was up in the mid-20th century, a predominantly coined by agriculture village. Even today, the farming and wine-growing on the slopes to Lonay have some significance in the occupational structure of the population.
The first craft operating in the municipality was a brickworks, founded in 1437, in 1880 and mechanized to the cessation in 1913 was one of the most important western Switzerland. Since the 1970s, several industrial and commercial zones have been created in the valley below Lonay along the main roads, which offer numerous jobs. Among companies in the electronics, mechanical engineering, plastics and food industries are represented. In recent decades, the village has developed thanks to its attractive location into a residential community. Many workers are therefore commuters who work mainly in Lausanne and Morges.
Traffic
The community is easily accessible via. It is easily accessible from Morges. Through the southern municipality runs the A1 was opened in 1964 ( Geneva, Lausanne). The next ports are located in Morges and in Crissier.
On July 1, 1855 Section Renens -Morges railway line Lausanne- Geneva was inaugurated with the Lonay - Préverenges station. From 1969 to 1971, the large SBB marshalling yard was built, which occupies approximately 15 hectares of the municipality of Lonay with a track length of 60 km; the eastern part is in the field of Denges.
History
Finds of Roman and early medieval graves show an early settlement of the municipality. The first written mention of the village was carried out in 1177 under the present name Lonay. 1213 appeared the name Losnai. The place name comes from the Latin personal name Lonius.
In Lonay the Lausanne cathedral chapter and the Abbey Lac de Joux had (L' Abbaye ) rich land. Lonay was fragmented into numerous fiefdoms. With the conquest of Vaud by Bern in 1536, the village came under the administration of the bailiwick of Morges. After the collapse of the ancien régime Lonay 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 of Morges.
Attractions
The parish church of Saint- Germain was 1740-1741 on the site of a previous medieval building rebuilt, incorporating the early Gothic choir. The parsonage is located since the 18th century in a former vineyard house of the abbey Lac de Joux. In the old town of Lonay some characteristic agricultural and wine farmhouses dating from the 17th to 19th centuries have been preserved.
In the novel stands the Chapel of Saint- Maurice from the 14th century. The mansion in the novel lingerie dates from the 17th and 18th centuries. The late medieval house La Réale in Roman -Dessus shows a large roof in the Bernese style.