Morrens
Morrens
Morrens is a municipality in the district of Gros- de -Vaud in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. Your name is provided by the Federal Statistical Office and the Canton shortcut to a confusion with the homophonic community Moren in the Canton of Fribourg to avoid.
Geography
Morrens is located at 702 m above sea level. M., 8 km north of the canton capital Lausanne ( straight line ). The village is situated at an altitude on the western edge of the Jorat, between the talent in the north and the Mèbre in the south, in the southern Gros de Vaud, in the Vaud Mittelland.
The area of 3.7 km ² large municipality area includes a portion of the higher Vaud Mittelland. The high surface area of Morrens located on the watershed between the talent ( in the catchment area of the Rhine ) and the Mèbre ( in the catchment area of the Rhône). These two rivers form the northern or the southern boundaries. On the hill of Morrens, also called Le Signal, is 718 m above sea level. M. reached the highest point of the municipality. To the north of the municipality extends on the top floor of the western talent up in the forest area Bois aux Allemands. From the municipality surface 1997 13 % came from settlements, 20 % of forest and woody plants and 67% from agriculture.
To Morrens include the districts and housing estates Montelier ( 687 m above sea level. M. ) in the north and Petit Montelier ( 695 m above sea level. M. ) in the east of the village and the hamlet Biolettes north of Mèbre ( 677 m above sea level. M. ). The neighboring communities of Morrens are in the southwest Cheseaux -sur -Lausanne, in the northwest Etagnières, Assen in the north, northeast Epinay -sur -Morrens, in the southeast and south Cugy an exclave of Lausanne.
Population
With 980 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012) Morrens one of the smaller municipalities in the canton of Vaud. Of the 90.3 % inhabitants are French-speaking, German-speaking 6.2 % and 0.9 % Italian-speaking (as of 2000). The population of Morrens amounted in 1900 to 285 inhabitants. Since 1960 (234 inhabitants), a rapid population increase was recorded with a quadrupling of the population within 40 years.
Economy
Morrens was until the second half of the 20th century, mainly coined by farming village. Today, the crop and livestock farming have only a marginal role in the occupational structure of the population. With the growth of the population since the 1970s, some smaller and medium-sized companies set up operations in the city, especially in the fields of computer technology, household appliances and electronics. 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 the Lausanne area.
Traffic
The community is located off of larger thoroughfares on a connecting road from Cheseaux -sur- Lausanne to Cugy. The motorway connection Lausanne- Blécherette on the A9 opened in 1974 (Lausanne -Sion ) is about 5 km, the Cossonay Following the 1981 opened A1 (Lausanne -Yverdon ) 7 km from the center. By Postbus course, which runs from Cheseaux -sur- Lausanne to Cugy, Morrens is connected to the public transport network.
History
The municipal area traces of a Gallo- Roman settlement have been found. The first documentary mention of the place was already in 1147 under the present name Morrens; 1272 appeared the spelling Morrans. The place name probably comes from the Latin name Maurus.
In the Middle Ages Morrens belonged to the rule Bottens, in 1535, it was its own little rule. With the conquest of Vaud by Bern in 1536, the village came under the administration of the Bailiwick of Lausanne. After the collapse of the ancien régime Morrens 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 Echallens.
Attractions
The Reformed Church of Saint -Nicolas is originally from the Middle Ages, but was later repeatedly remodeled and restored. Next to the church is the rectory dating from the 17th century, in which the Major Jean Daniel Abraham Davel was born in 1670. The hotel, designed in the 17th century by the family of de Saussure, who owned a mansion Morrens during the Bernese period mansion was converted to the church.