Prévonloup

Prévonloup

Prévonloup is a municipality in the district Broye Vully the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.

Geography

Prévonloup is located on 746 m above sea level. Level, 14 km south of the district town Payerne ( straight line ). The village street lines extends to a slightly inclined to the north plateau east of the Valley of Broye, in the eastern canton of Vaud Mittelland.

The area of ​​1.8 km ² large municipality area includes a portion of the Molassehügellandes between the Broyetal and the upper reaches of the Glane. The main part of the territory occupied by the plateau of Prévonloup that is north to the Seyve drained ( in the catchment area of the Broye ). The two highest points of Prévonloup are each 805 m above sea level. M. reached on the forest height Bois de Verrey in the south and on the hill Dailles in the east. From the municipality surface 1997 7 % was attributable to settlements, 13 % of forest and woody plants and 80 % to agriculture.

To Prévonloup include several individual farms. Neighboring communities of Prévonloup are Lovatens and Dompierre in the canton of Vaud and Romont and Billens - Hennens in the Canton of Fribourg.

Population

With 148 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012) Prévonloup one of the smallest municipalities in the canton of Vaud. Of the 91.2 % inhabitants are French-speaking, German-speaking 7.9 % and 0.9 % speak Albanian (as of 2000). The population of Prévonloup amounted in 1900 to 161 inhabitants. Thereafter, until 1970, by strong emigration recorded a decrease to 115 inhabitants; Since then, the population has remained stable.

Economy

Prévonloup 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. As a result of the construction of several houses in the past few decades the village has also developed into a residential community. Some employed persons are therefore commuters who work in the surrounding larger towns.

Traffic

The community is conveniently technically quite well developed. It lies on the main road from Lucens to Romont. Due to the buses that travel the routes of Moudon to Romont and Romont to Payerne, Prévonloup is connected to the public transport network.

History

The place name derives from either the Latin term locus profundus (deep place, deep place ) or on the French eau profonde ( loue from the old French word; deep water ) back.

Since the Middle Ages Prévonloup was owned by the Bishop of Lausanne. With the conquest of Vaud by Bern in 1536, the village came under the administration of the bailiwick Moudon. After the collapse of the ancien régime Prévonloup 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 Moudon. Prévonloup does not have its own church; it belongs to the parish of Dompierre.