Prangins
Prangins
Prangins is a municipality in the district of Nyon in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.
Geography
The village lies at 414 m above sea Prangins. M., 1.5 km northeast of the district main town Nyon ( straight line ). The village is located on a terrace in the plain between the lake and the Jura, about 40 m above the lake level.
The area of 6.1 km ² large municipality area includes a section on the northwest shore of Lake Geneva. The communal land extends from the shore over the shallow riparian strips up to the terrace of Prangins. The highest point of the municipality is 432 m above sea level. M. reached on foot of the hill of Duillier. The north-eastern boundary of the area formed by the winding course of Promenthouse which opens with a large alluvial fan into the lake; the main part of this delta is one of Prangins. From the municipality surface 1997 was 28% in settlements, 13 % of forest and shrubs, 58 % to agriculture and slightly less than 1% was unproductive land.
The municipality Prangins the settlement BENEX ( 374 m ) west on the fan are (424 m), a former hamlet on the northeast edge of the village, and hamlet Promenthoux the mouth of the Promenthouse. Neighboring communities of Prangins are Nyon, Duillier, Coinsins, Vich and England.
Population
With 3881 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012) Prangins belongs to the medium-sized municipalities in the canton of Vaud. Of the 77.9% inhabitants are French-speaking, German-speaking 7.9 % and 5.9 % in English (as of 2000). The population of Prangins amounted in 1850 to 440 residents in 1900 to 754 inhabitants. After 1960 (1123 inhabitants) began a rapid increase in population by tripling the number of inhabitants within 40 years. The settlement area of Prangins has now grown together seamlessly with that of Nyon.
Economy
Prangins until the 20th century embossed mainly by agriculture village. Still plays agriculture as a source of a certain role, she focused thanks to the fertile soil on farming, viticulture is only operated on a very small area. More jobs are there in the chemical industry, in the manufacturing and service sectors. In recent decades, the village has developed into a residential community. Most workers are commuters who work primarily in Nyon and Geneva.
Transmitter
Near Prangins is the built in 1931 transmitter of Swiss time signal transmitter HBG, which uses a T- antenna, which is attached to two free-standing 125 meters high and grounded steel lattice towers. At the transmitter system still has several other antennas, including for a non-directional beacon. The operation of the time signal transmitter was set in late 2011 and blew up the towers on September 6, 2012.
Traffic
The community is easily accessible via. The village is situated between the main road 1 from Geneva along Lake Geneva to Lausanne and the road from the Vaud Nyon Cote. The motorway Nyon and Gland on the A1 ( Geneva, Lausanne) is about 4 km each from the center. On April 14, 1858 Section Morges- Coppet the SBB line Lausanne- Geneva was taken with a station in Prangins in operation. Today the station is no longer being served. For the dispersion in public transport the city bus from Nyon provides. Northeast of Prangins is an airfield.
History
During the Neolithic period the lake shore was inhabited at Prangins. The first written mention of the village was carried out in 1140 under the name Prengiaco. Later, the names Preingins ( 1142 ), Prengiens ( 1154 ), Prengins ( 1164 ), Perengins and Pringins ( 1172 ) and Pringens ( 1177 ) published. The place name is probably derived from personal names Perenger and means for the people of Perenger.
During the Middle Ages Prangins was from the 11th to the 13th century, home to an important rule, which ranged from the Pays de Gex up to Mont- sur-Rolle. 1293 came this rule to the House of Savoy and henceforth changed hands several times, the original territory has been greatly reduced. With the conquest of Vaud by Bern in 1536 Prangins came under the administration of the Bailiwick of Nyon. 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 of Nyon. The last emperor of Austria - Hungary, Charles I lived after his exile for some time in Prangins.
Attractions
The present building of the Reformed church of Prangins is from 1757-1761 and has a bell tower from 1860. In the old town, some farmers and town houses of the 17th to the 19th century.
At the edge of the patio area to the east of the village center is the Prangin Castle, which was built in 1732-1739 on the site of a medieval manor. It consists of a central block with two wings, flanked by four corner towers. The Prangins castle since 1998 ( after an extensive renovation ), a branch of the Swiss National Museum. This shows as a permanent exhibition of economic, social and cultural development in Switzerland during from 1750 to 1920.
In Promenthoux the Villa La Bergerie, which was built in 1862 for Prince Jérôme Bonaparte, and the Castle are Promenthoux ( built around 1900 ).