Ouchy
Ouchy is a neighborhood in the district Sous-Gare/Ouchy the Swiss city of Lausanne.
Location
Ouchy is located in the south of Lausanne, on the shores of Lake Geneva, at 373 m above sea level. M. ( Bahnhof). Administratively Ouchy the BFS code 5586-006 is assigned.
By underground, m2, currently the only fully automated metro in Switzerland, Ouchy is connected to the city center since 18th September 2008 - the m2 replaced the decommissioned on January 22, 2006 cogwheel train Lausanne- Ouchy. The trains stop at the metro station, right on the lake. Thanks to the excellent transport links of the Générale de Navigation sur le lac Léman ( CGN ) which links to nearby Seeanstössergemeinden, including with the opposite Evian -les- Bains in France, guaranteed.
History
The city of Lausanne has been inhabited since the 4th millennium BC, and Ouchy is likely to be ideally situated for a first permanent settlement with its convenient lakeside and harbor bay. The Romans built probably around the year 15 BC on the site of a Celtic settlement in the area of today's Vidy a military camp, which they called Lousanna. Since the first century, a Roman vicus developed at the hub of merchant ships on the route Wallis Lake Geneva Rhone Valley; 1.2 kilometers long and 250 meters wide, the largest in Switzerland. During the incursions of the Alemanni, he was probably destroyed around the year 260: The settlement focus shifted to the hill in the vicinity of the cathedral, and came in the second half of the 5th century under the influence of the Burgundians.
The further development of the small port settlement at Ouchy is closely connected with the Diocese of Lausanne and the built in the second half of the 12th century castle of Ouchy. Around the year 1445 were the residents of the neighboring communities Aran, Chatagny and Grandvaux obliged to work on the expansion of the fortifications and were able to see the return in the castle guard. After the Bernese had conquered the territory of Vaud during the Reformation in 1536, the castle of Ouchy served the occupiers as a prison.
The former small fishing village of Ouchy grew with the expanding Lausanne together until the mid 19th century and developed into the tourist center of Lausanne. On 9 July 1892 seemed to Ouchy to a boiler explosion on a paddle steamer Mont Blanc, which claimed 26 lives due to faulty construction and inadequate maintenance. In the castle the signing of the Treaty of Ouchy between Italy and the Ottoman Empire took place on October 18, 1912, by which the Italian- Turkish war ended. On July 24, 1923, the Treaty of Lausanne was reached, and 16 June to 9 July 1932 Ouchy was the meeting of the Conference of Lausanne.
Attractions
Port and waterfront
In Ouchy, the traditional port of Lausanne, are distinctive hotel buildings from the 19th century, such as the Hôtel du Château d' Ouchy ( 1889-93 ) in the Gothic Revival style, the Hôtel d' Angleterre ( 1775-79 ) and the Hôtel Beau- Rivage ( 1858-61 ). Among the famous visitors include the noble family of Sayn -Wittgenstein- Sayn and Richard Strauss, who lived here with Pauline Strauss -de Ahna for a few years and his opera Die Frau ohne Schatten ended.
Along the promenade there are extensive parks, including Parc du Denantou, with resting places, sculptures and leisure facilities and the Quai extend a neo-Gothic tower ruins by 1830. The port area is extremely popular not only as a recreational area and especially by tourists, it is also popular with inline skaters and related sports great popularity.
Other attractions in the port area and its generously sized park include the seaside resort and the extensive grounds of the Swiss National Exhibition of 1964 and the Olympic Museum (Musee Olympique ) and the Musée de l' Elysée.
Ouchy Castle
Landri de Dumes (Land Rich from Dornach ), 1159-1179 Bishop of Lausanne, is regarded as the builder of a residential tower at the former river called Ouchy. Since 1273, the Episcopal House of Ouchy is mentioned, from 1283 a castle ( castrum ), probably already a fortified castle with a curtain wall and Ökonomiebauten as episcopal residence. Here was Guillaume de V. Varax ( William of Varax ), bishop from 1462 to 1466, his residence and built the castle from further, including the bishop belonged prison. After a fire in 1609, the facility fell into disrepair. Jean -Jacques Mercier left the ruins from 1885 as a neo-Gothic castle hotel in today's stage of construction to rebuild the architect Francis Isoz.
Economy
Among the well-known resident of Ouchy organizations and companies include the Graduate School of Public Administration, the LO Holding Lausanne- Ouchy and the shipping company Compagnie Générale de Navigation ( CGN ), which ensures the passenger ship on Lake Geneva.
Personalities
- Alfred de Glehn (* 1848, † 1936), a mechanical engineer
- Fritz Simrock (* 1837, † 1901), German music publisher
- Alexandre Vinet (* 1797, † 1847), Reformed theologian and historian of literature
Gallery
Railcar of m2 in the depot in Vennes
Sculpture in the port area
Steamboats in the Port of CGN