Pampigny
Pampigny
Pampigny is a municipality in the district of Morges in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.
Geography
Pampigny situated 650 meters above sea level. Level, 10 km north-west of the district capital Morges ( straight line ). The scattered village extends to a slightly inclined slope to the east on the plateau of the Jura plateau, a scenic location in the western rim of the Vaud Mittelland.
The area of 11.1 km ² large municipality area includes a portion of the gently undulating plateau of western Vaud Mittelland. The communal land stretches from the slopes at Pampigny that are drained by the Combagnou to Morges, to the northwest over a glacially overprinted hills up to the headwaters of the Veyron. On the right side of this river there are large forests ( Bois de la Croix de Tailles Mauraz, Le Parc and Vafiâ ). On the west, the area extends into the Marais des Monod, a swampy area on the Veyron. The highest elevation of 696 m above sea Pampigny is. M. west of the village on the hill Montassiaux. From the municipality surface 1997 accounted for 5% on settlements, 37 % of forest and shrubs, 57% to agriculture and slightly less than 1% was unproductive land.
To Pampigny include numerous individual farms. The neighboring communities of Pampigny in the West Mont Richer, in the north Mauraz, in the north- north-east of L' Isle, in the northeast Chavannes -le- Veyron, in the east-northeast Grancy, in the east Cottens, in the southeast Sévery, in the south Apples and southwest Mollens.
Population
With 1070 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012) Pampigny one of the smaller municipalities in the canton of Vaud. Of the 92.4 % inhabitants are French-speaking, German-speaking 4.0 % and 1.5 % in English (as of 2000). The population of Pampigny amounted in 1900 to 650 inhabitants. After the population had decreased to 1970 to 445 people, a significant population increase has been observed with almost a doubling of the population within 30 years.
Economy
Pampigny was until the second half of the 20th century, mainly coined by farming village. Even today, the farming, fruit growing and cattle breeding have an important role in the economic structure of the population. More jobs are in small local manufacturing and services available. In the 1990s, a commercial zone was created. The area was settled a business of transportation, an electrical installation business and a company that manufactures plastics and thermoplastics, down. 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 Morges and Lausanne area.
Traffic
The community is located off of larger thoroughfares on a link road from Morges to L' Isle. On September 12, 1896, the narrow gauge railway line from L' Isle to the Apple Bière -Apples- Morges line was taken with a station in Pampigny in operation.
History
The municipal area of Pampigny traces have been found dating from Roman times and from the early Middle Ages. The first written mention of the village was carried out in 1016 under the name Pimpinengis. Later, the names Pampiniacum ( 1141 ) published, Panpinie ( 1228 ), Pampignie ( 1232), Pagpignie ( 1235 ), Pampigniez ( 1324 ) and Pampignyer ( 1335). The place name probably derives from the personal name Pempenius.
In the Middle Ages Pampigny belonged to the lords of Cossonay which gave the resident nobles as a fief of the village. With the conquest of Vaud by Bern in 1536 Pampigny came under the administration of the bailiwick of Morges. 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 was assigned to the District Cossonay.
Attractions
The single-nave building of the Reformed parish church of Saint -Pierre was built in the 15th century, the facade comes from 1736th in the interior wall paintings have survived from the Middle Ages. The Castle of Pampigny, a manor house flanked by two towers, was in 1688 built on the site of an older building. After the church had bought the castle in 1836, is the local school was housed until 1983, the new school center Champ- Carré was opened. In the center some characteristic farmhouses have survived from the 18th and 19th centuries.