Belmont-sur-Lausanne

Belmont-sur-Lausanne
State :	Switzerland
Canton :	Vaud (VD)
District :	Lavaux-Oron
BFS no. :	5581
Postal code :	1092
Coordinates :	541806  /  152361 coordinates: 46 ° 31 '12 "  N , 6 ° 40' 49"  O ; CH1903:  541806  /  152361
Height :	610  m above sea level M.
Height range :	426–820 m above sea level M.
Area :	2.65  km²
Residents:	3724 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	1405 inhabitants per km²
Website:	www.belmont.ch
Belmont-sur-Lausanne
Location of the municipality

Belmont-sur-Lausanne is a municipality in the Lavaux-Oron district in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland .

geography

Belmont-sur-Lausanne lies at 610  m above sea level. M. , 3.5 km east of the canton capital Lausanne (linear distance). The village extends on the steep southern slope of the Jorat plateau , east of the Paudèze valley , in a panoramic position around 230 m above lake level of Lake Geneva .

The area of ​​the 2.6 km² municipal area comprises a small section of the southern slope of the Jorat in the far west of Lavaux . The western and north-western border forms the wooded valley of the Paudèze, which is deepened into the slope, the southern border runs along its left side stream Le Flonzel. The municipality extends in the northeast to the adjacent plateau north of Lake Geneva, on the 816  m above sea level. M. the highest point of Belmont-sur-Lausanne is reached. In 1997, 31% of the municipal area was in settlements, 30% in forests and woodland, 38% in agriculture and a little less than 1% was unproductive land.

Belmont-sur-Lausanne includes extensive new residential areas, the hamlet Le Signal de Belmont ( 770  m above sea level ) above the village and a few individual farms. Belmont-sur-Lausanne's neighboring municipalities are Pully , Savigny , Lutry and Paudex .

population

With 3724 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2018), Belmont-sur-Lausanne is one of the medium-sized municipalities in the canton of Vaud. 87.3% of the residents are French-speaking, 5.9% German-speaking and 1.6% English-speaking (as of 2000). The population of Belmont-sur-Lausanne was 455 in 1850 and 491 in 1900. Since 1950 (405 inhabitants) a rapid increase in population with a sevenfold increase in the number of inhabitants has been observed within 50 years.

economy

Belmont-sur-Lausanne was a predominantly agricultural village until the middle of the 20th century . Today arable farming has only a subordinate role in the employment structure of the population. There is a small wine-growing area on the slope below the village .

Coal deposits were discovered in the Paudèze valley in the 17th century . The stone and brown coal was mined particularly in the period 1771-1796, in the second half of the 19th century and during the two world wars and smelted. Other jobs are available in small businesses and in the service sector (information technology, furniture stores and a printing shop). The Hans and Joram Deutsch art foundation has been located in Belmont-sur-Lausanne since 1964, and the Fondation Deutsch museum was opened in 1989.

In the last few decades the village has developed into a residential community thanks to its attractive location. Many workers are therefore commuters who work mainly in Lausanne.

traffic

The community is well developed in terms of transport, the main access is from Lutry . The Belmont motorway junction on the A9 (Lausanne-Sion) opened in 1974 is around 1 km from the town. The Belmont spur is driven under in a 300 m long tunnel. Belmont-sur-Lausanne is connected to the public transport network by bus routes 47 (Pully-Belmont) and 66 (Lausanne-Grandvaux) of the Transports publics de la région lausannoise .

history

Belmont-sur-Lausanne, 1919 (etching by Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen )

The first written mention of the place took place in 1160 under the name Bellomon . In 1228 the name Belmunt and the Latin form apud bellum Montem (near beautiful mountain) appeared. In the Middle Ages, Belmont-sur-Lausanne was under the Lausanne cathedral chapter, but the Lutry Benedictine monastery also had the right to collect tithes and interest in the town. With the conquest of Vaud by Bern in 1536, Belmont-sur-Lausanne came under the administration of the Bailiwick of Lausanne . After the collapse of the Ancien Régime , the village belonged to the canton of Léman from 1798 to 1803 during the Helvetic Republic, which then became part of the canton of Vaud when the mediation constitution came into force . In 1798 it was assigned to the Lausanne district.

Attractions

The first Belmont church to be dedicated to Saint-Martin dates back to the 12th century. Extensive restorations and renovations took place in the 16th century. The valley of the Paudèze is spanned below Belmont-sur-Lausanne by the viaduct of the Lausanne-Bern railway line, built between 1858 and 1862.

Web links

Commons : Belmont-sur-Lausanne  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of the municipality of Belmont-sur-Lausanne (French)
• Robert Pictet: Belmont-sur-Lausanne. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Aerial photography

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Permanent and non-permanent resident population by year, canton, district, municipality, population type and gender (permanent resident population). In: bfs. admin.ch . Federal Statistical Office (FSO), August 31, 2019, accessed on December 22, 2019 .