Perroy

Perroy is a municipality in the district of Nyon in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.

Geography

Perroy is located on 418 m above sea level. Level, 14 km north-east of the district main town Nyon ( straight line ). The wine village extends on the plateau at the foot of the Vaud Cote, in a scenic location around 40 m above the lake level of Lake Geneva.

The area of ​​2.9 km ² large municipality area includes a section on the north shore of Lake Geneva. The communal land extends from the shore northward over the flat riparian strips down to the plateau at the foot of the Côte. The eastern boundary is the slightly deepened in the plateau valley of the brook Eau Noire. In a small corner of the area extends to the northwest up the steep slope of the Vaud Cote and reached near the Signal de Bougy 665 m above sea level. M. the highest point of Perroy. From the municipal area in 1997 accounted for 30% settlements, 6% of the forest and woody plants and 64% agriculture.

At Perroy include some wineries and individual farms. Neighboring communities of Perroy are role Mont- sur-Rolle, Bougy -Villars, Féchy and Allaman.

Population

With 1365 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012) Perroy belongs to the medium-sized municipalities in the canton of Vaud. Of the 83.2% inhabitants are French-speaking, German-speaking 5.7 % and 4.4 % portugiesischsprachig (as of 2000). The population of Perroy amounted in 1900 to 394 inhabitants. After 1960 (503 inhabitants ) continued rapid population growth, with a doubling of the number of inhabitants within 40 years.

Economy

Perroy until the 20th century, a predominantly coined by farming village. Still plays agriculture as a branch of the population an important role. On optimal for sun -exposed slopes below the village and on the slopes of the Côte wine production. The vineyard area accounts for almost half of its territory. On the plateau at the foot of the slope of agriculture prevails. More jobs are in industry and especially in the services available. In recent decades, the village has developed thanks to its attractive location into a residential community. Many workers working abroad and commute partly down to the city of Lausanne.

Traffic

The community is easily accessible via road. It is located just above the main road 1, which runs from Geneva along the lake to Lausanne. The motorway role and Aubonne on the A1 opened in 1964 ( Geneva, Lausanne), which crosses the municipality, approximately 4 miles from both place are removed.

On April 14, 1858 of section from Morges to Coppet of the railway line Lausanne- Geneva was taken with a station in Perroy in operation, it is no longer being served today. On public transport, the community is connected through the postal Car Course, which runs from Rolle to Aubonne.

History

The first documentary mention of the place was already in the year 910 under the name Pirrhois and Prihoiam. Later, the names villa Petreio ( 955 ) published, villa Petroio (1013 ), in the 11th century for the first time Perroy, then Perruërs and 1867 Perroi. The resident since the mid-10th century monks founded in Perroy at the beginning of the 12th century a Benedictine priory, which was subordinate to the Abbey of Saint- Philibert in Tournus (France). The priory was secularized with the introduction of the Reformation and sold the monastic property no later than 1548.

With the conquest of Vaud by Bern in 1536 Perroy 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 role.

Attractions

The Protestant parish church Sainte -Marie was once a priory. From the medieval building of the choir are obtained with a ribbed vault. The nave was remodeled in 1828. The Castle of Perroy, located at the eastern edge of the village, was built in the 16th and 17th centuries; its orangery dates from the 18th century. In densely populated old town center are some of the typical citizen and get grower's house from the 17th to 19th centuries.