Prilly

Prilly is a municipality in the district of Ouest lausannois the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.

Geography

Prilly is located on 481 m above sea level. M., 3 km northwest of the capital of the canton Lausanne ( straight line ). The suburban community of Lausanne extends north to Lake Geneva on subsequent slope, in the Vaud Mittelland, a scenic location about 100 m above the lake level of Lake Geneva.

The area of ​​2.2 km ² large municipality area includes a portion of the divided into several terraces slope terrain north-west of Lausanne. The communal land extends from the lowest terrace ( about 430 m above sea level. M. ) east of Malley northward through the middle terrace of Prilly ( approximately 480 m above sea level. M. ) up to the plateau at Cery west of the airfield Blécherette (approx. 600 m ü. M. ). The highest point of Prilly is 612 m above sea level. M. north of Cery achieved. From the municipality surface 1997 80 % came from settlements, 6% of the forest and woody plants and 14% to agriculture.

To Prilly the settlement Cery belongs to 590 m above sea level. M. above the town. Neighboring communities of Prilly are Lausanne, Romanel -sur -Lausanne, Prilly and Renens.

Population

With 11,522 inhabitants (as of 31 December 2012) Prilly one of the great municipalities in the canton of Vaud. Of the 80.1 % inhabitants are French-speaking, 4.6 % and 3.3 % Italian- German-speaking (as of 2000). The population of Prilly amounted in 1850 to 309 inhabitants, 1900 to 1569 inhabitants. After a very strong increase in population since the beginning of the 20th century, especially between 1950 and 1970, a significant decline in population was observed again. The decline is attributed to the migration of foreigners to the economic crisis in the 1970s and in recent times to the aging of the population. In addition, land reserves for new housing estates hardly available. The settlement area of Prilly has grown together seamlessly with those of Lausanne, Renens and Prilly.

Economy

Prilly was up to the beginning of the 20th century, a rural village embossed. It was then operated on the slopes around the village viticulture. Today, only a small slope is still grown, and the primary sector has hardly more significance in the occupational structure of the population.

Due to its location right on the outskirts of Lausanne of settlement pressure on Prilly already in 1900 rose sharply. Industrial and commercial areas developed since then, especially below the village center in the field of railway lines. Major companies are now the Bobst SA ( packaging; since 1937 ) and the Sicpa Holding SA ( security inks; since 1927). There are about 300 other companies, mostly medium to smaller size. As the computer science major industries, the transport sector as well as the printing and publishing industries apply.

The slopes around the old town center were almost completely built over in the train with blocks of flats, family houses and villas.

The municipal area of Prilly are the cantonal psychiatric ward of Cery ( since 1873 ) together with the psycho- geriatric hospital, the psychiatric university clinic, psychiatric counseling center at the University of Lausanne for children and adolescents ( SUPEA ) and the therapeutic center for young people (CTA). Even the Vaud Cantonal Bank ( Banque Cantonal Vaudoise ) has its administrative center in Prilly.

In addition to the usual academic training centers Prilly has a cantonal school for psychiatric nursing and a school for Autospengler. One of the major sporting facilities include the location close to the railway line to Ice Rink Malley (since 1983), the home ground of ice hockey club HC Lausanne.

Traffic

The community is easily accessible via. It lies on the main road 9 from Lausanne to Vallorbe. The nearest motorway connections Lausanne Malley (opened 1964) on the western feeder of Lausanne and Lausanne- Blécherette on the A9 opened in 1974 (Lausanne -Sion ), both around 2 kilometers away from the town center.

The territory of Prilly is indeed crossed by the train Lausanne -Geneva, but there is no train station. The nearest train stations to the national route are Lausanne and Renens. The upper part of the municipality is accessed by three stops on the narrow gauge train Lausanne- Echallens - Bercher. The section Lausanne - Cheseaux -sur -Lausanne was put into operation on 5 November 1873. Furthermore, the community is served by the trolley Lausanne and several bus lines of the Transports publics de la région Lausannoise.

History

The first documentary mention of the place was already in the year 976 under the name Presliacus. In the 12th and 13th centuries, the names Prelie, Priliez and Priliacum published; other spellings were Prilie ( 1218 ), Prillie ( 1228 ) and Prilliez ( 1453). The place name comes from the Latin personal name Preslius.

In the Middle Ages the cathedral chapter of Lausanne and the Abbey of Saint -Maurice had rich land in Prilly. The domination of the village was for the bishop of Lausanne, which they gave to the lords of the fiefs Prilly. Later, there were numerous changes of ownership (temporary owner was Isbrand Daux who wanted to play with a conspiracy the Vaud to Bern time in the hands of Savoy), until the reign 1729 came to Lausanne.

With the conquest of Vaud by Bern in 1536, the village came under the administration of the bailiwick of Lausanne. After the collapse of the Ancien Régime Prilly 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 Lausanne. During the 1950s there was a annexation to Lausanne for debate, but this was not pursued further later. With the excess of the 10,000 -inhabitant limit Prilly was declared a town in 1962.

Attractions

The Protestant parish church ( Eglise de Broye) Tière to Renens was built in the years 1765-1768. It has a baroque -classical bell tower. In the area of the former village is the Castle of Prilly, a mansion from the 17th century, which now houses the municipal administration. The only remains of the formerly rural village are a furnace House ( c. 1800), the farmhouse Castel Mont (1820 ), a parsonage and a Bernese house of year 1690.

1908, the Jewish cemetery of Prilly was created. The Catholic church dates from 1960. 1991 the center has been redesigned and built a community center.

Personalities

• Born Arthur Fonjallaz (1875-1944), Swiss army colonel and an outstanding person of the movement front, in Prilly
• Lauriane Gilliéron, Miss Switzerland 2005, daughter of the mayor of Prilly, Alain Gilliéron