Pully
Pully
Pully [ pyji ] is a municipality in the district of Lavaux -Oron in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.
Geography
Pully is at 426 m above sea level. M., 2.5 km southeast of the canton capital Lausanne ( straight line ). The suburban community of Lausanne extends a scenic location on a terrace above the north shore of Lake Geneva and on the lower southern slopes of the heights of the Jorat, in the Vaud Mittelland.
The area of 5.8 km ² large municipality area includes a section on the north shore of Lake Geneva. The communal land extends from the lake up north across the narrow riparian corridors and the grounds terrace of Pully and adjacent slopes. The western border is formed by the valley of the brook Vuachère, to the east is the boundary along the Paudèze that divided the slope with a deep valley. In a narrow strip of territory extends northeast across the forest Bois de la Chan Auditorium on the slopes of the Monts de Pully, bounded by the valleys of the southeast and Paudèze Chandelar in the northwest. At the height west of Claie aux Moines is 802 m above sea level. M. reached the highest elevation of Pully. From the municipality surface 1997 54 % came from settlements, 25 % of forest and shrubs, 20 % to agriculture and slightly less than 1% was unproductive land.
Pully to include the settlements Chamblandes (380 m above sea level. M. ) at the lakeside, La Rosiaz (580 m above sea level. M. ) and on the slopes above the scattered settlement of Pully Monts de Pully ( 723 m above sea level. M. ) on the upper slope Jorat. The neighboring communities of Pully are in the west and north of Lausanne, in the northeast Savigny, in the East Belmont- sur -Lausanne and in the southeast Paudex.
Population
With 17,479 inhabitants (as of 31 December 2012) Pully one of the largest municipalities in the canton of Vaud. Of the 82.8 % inhabitants are French-speaking, German-speaking 4.8 % and 2.8 % Italian-speaking (as of 2000). The population of Pully amounted in 1900 to 2339 inhabitants. After a very strong increase in population since the beginning of the 20th century, especially between 1950 and 1960, a first peak was observed around 1970. Due to the economic crisis in the 1970s associated with the migration of foreign workers, the population decreased by 1,000 people in the next decade. Since then, the population is increasing slowly but steadily on. The lower part of the municipality is now largely built over and only has relatively low land reserves. The settlement area of Pully is completely grown together with those of Lausanne and Paudex.
Economy
Pully was up to the beginning of the 20th century a more rural embossed village. It was then operated on the slopes around the village viticulture, but was ousted in 1915 by growing vegetables. Today there are only a few small Rebbaugebiete. The primary sector has hardly any significance in the occupational structure of the population.
Due to its location right on the outskirts of Lausanne of settlement pressure on Pully already in 1900 rose sharply. As a result, the former winegrower village developed into a residential suburb of Lausanne. The slopes around the old town center were built over with blocks of flats, family houses and villas and the agricultural areas further and further back. Unlike in the other adjacent to Lausanne city communities there are in Pully no greater industrial and commercial area. As an important company Tetra Pak International SA and Assura are mentioned. The vast number of persons employed in Pully ( around 80 %) is employed in the service sector.
Pully has a boat harbor on Lake Geneva and a recreation area along the lakefront. The first bathing establishment of the community was opened in 1913.
Education
Especially in the first half of the 20th century were located in Pully numerous boarding houses and private schools. In addition to the primary schools Pully has the College was founded in 1903 by the Dominicans de Champittet, the College was built in 1976 A. Reymond and the Lycée Jaccard (1914 based), which was in 1975 converted into a gymnasium. In addition Pully is fit and training center of the Société vaudoise the cafe tiers- restaurateurs et hoteliers.
Culture
The cultural life of Pully is a significant mass by the cultural center opened in 1976, L' Octogone, including a theater ( Théâtre de Pully ), embossed. Also known is the Théâtre de la Voirie. Since 1949 Pully has a local museum in 1991 was added a contemporary art museum ( established by the Foundation A. Edelman ).
Traffic
The community is easily accessible via. It lies on the main road 9, which runs from Lausanne along the lake shore via Vevey and Montreux from Wallis. Pully can be opened by the motorway Lausanne- Vennes, and Belmont to the 1974- A9 (Lausanne -Sion ) can be easily achieved.
On April 2, 1861, the Lausanne -Villeneuve track section of railway line from Lausanne was opened to the Valais. Around one and a half years later, on September 4, 1862, the train Lausanne -Bern was put into operation, which crosses the upper part of the municipality. Pully has two routes to a train station. The community is being developed by the Lausanne Trolleybus and several bus lines of the Transports publics de la région Lausannoise. Furthermore Pully is also serviced by the maritime transport system on Lake Geneva.
History
Pully can look back on a very long urban tradition. The earliest evidence of a settlement dating to the Neolithic younger. From this time the stone Crate Digger at Chamblandes - Vernay with 48 excavated human skeletons come. Chamblandes was eponymous for stone boxes of a certain type, the 4300-3300 BC, originated in western Switzerland ( stone box type Chamblandes ). Also from the Roman period have survived significant remains of a villa.
The first documentary mention of the place was already in 962 under the name Pulliacum. In the 12th century the spelling Polliacum appeared, followed by many other names: Puliei and Pulie ( 1142 ), Puliacum ( 1155 ), Pauliei ( 1178 ), Pulli ( 1198 ), Pullie ( 1223 ), sweaters, Villa Puliaco in the 13th century, Pollie (1250 ), Pullyez and Pullye (1368 ) and Pulliez ( 1377 ). The place name comes from the Roman personal name Pollius. The owner of the Roman Villa of Pully was called Pollius.
Since the 10th century, the Abbey of Saint -Maurice had rich land in Pully. This later went to the monastery of Payerne. The village was under the Bishop of Lausanne. With the conquest of Vaud by Bern in 1536 Pully came under the administration of the bailiwick of Lausanne. 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 Lausanne.
Attractions
The Protestant parish church Saint- Germain has a polygonal choir in the late Gothic style (16th century), the nave was rebuilt in the 20th century. In the church there is the Priory, parish hall, also in the late Gothic style, restored several times in the 18th and 19th centuries. The Praroman Chapel was built in 1506. In the old town some winegrowers' houses have been preserved from the 18th and 19th centuries. The remains of the Roman villa are kept in the museum. The fragments of a wall painting depicting scenes of Roman chariot races, are of particular importance.
Twinning
Pully went in 1986 twinned with the French town of Obernai in Alsace one.