Ferlens VD

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VD is the abbreviation for the canton of Vaud in Switzerland and is used to avoid confusion with other entries of the name Ferlensf .
Ferlens
Coat of arms of Ferlens
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Canton of VaudCanton of Vaud Vaud (VD)
District : Lavaux-Oronw
Municipality : Jorat-Mezieresi2
Postal code : 1076
former BFS no. : 5789
Coordinates : 549822  /  160069 coordinates: 46 ° 35 '24 "  N , 6 ° 47' 2"  O ; CH1903:  549822  /  160069
Height : 747  m above sea level M.
Area : 2.18  km²
Residents: 331 (December 31, 2014)
Population density : 152 inhabitants per km²
Website: www.jorat-mezieres.ch
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Ferlens VD (Switzerland)
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Parish before the merger on June 30, 2016

Ferlens ([ fɛʀlɑ̃ ], in the native Franco-Provencal dialect [ (a) fɛrˈlɛ̃ ]) was a municipality in the Lavaux-Oron district of the canton of Vaud in Switzerland until June 30, 2016 .

geography

Ferlens lies at 747  m above sea level. M. , four kilometers northwest of Oron-la-Ville and 14 kilometers northeast of the canton capital Lausanne (as the crow flies). This former farm extends to a height of the upper west Broyetals, on the eastern slope of the plateau of the Jorat , in the Vaud Plateau .

The area of ​​the 2.2 km² large municipal area includes a section of the Molasse heights between the Jorat and the upper reaches of the Broye . The western border runs along the Carrouge stream . From here the municipality extends eastward to the wide height of Ferlens, at 768  m above sea level. M. the highest point of the municipality is reached. This elevation descends gradually to the east into the valley of the Parimbot and the forest of Fey . A narrow tip in the northeast extends into the extensive forest area Bois de Ban (up to 718  m above sea level ). In 1997, 5% of the municipal area was accounted for by settlements, 22% for forests and woodlands and 73% for agriculture.

Several farm settlements and individual farms belong to Ferlens. The neighboring municipalities of Ferlens are Servion , Mézières , Carrouge and Vulliens in the canton of Vaud and Ecublens and Auboranges in the canton of Friborg .

population

With 331 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2014) Ferlens was one of the small communities in the canton of Vaud. 92.1% of the residents are French-speaking, 6.4% German-speaking and 1.5% Italian-speaking (as of 2000). The population of Ferlens was 229 in 1850 and 209 in 1900. Thereafter, a decrease to 142 inhabitants was recorded due to steady emigration until 1970; since then the population has increased again significantly and has doubled within 30 years.

economy

Ferlens was a predominantly agricultural village until the second half of the 20th century . Even today, have agriculture and livestock an important role in the employment structure of the population. Further jobs are available in local small businesses and in the service sector. With the construction of numerous single-family houses in the last few decades, the village has also developed into a residential community. Many workers are therefore commuters who work mainly in Lausanne .

traffic

The municipality is located away from major thoroughfares on a connecting road from Mézières to Oron-la-Ville . Ferlens is connected to the public transport network by a postbus course that runs from Mézières to Oron-la-Ville.

history

The place was first mentioned in a document in 1146 under its current name. The names Fellens (1180) and Ferlyn and Ferlin around 1330 appeared later. The place name goes back to the Burgundian personal name Ferila and means for the people of Ferila . Due to the discovery of a necropolis, which is dated to the 8th and 9th centuries, Ferlens was settled well before it was first mentioned.

The area of ​​Ferlens belonged to the Abbey of Saint-Maurice in the High Middle Ages . It was donated to the newly founded Cistercian Abbey of Haut-Crêt around 1150 . Later Ferlens was part of the Oron reign. With the conquest of Vaud by Bern in 1536, the village came under the administration of the Bailiwick of Moudon , but in 1557 it became part of the newly founded Bailiwick of Oron. After the collapse of the Ancien Régime , Ferlens 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 Oron district. Until 1820 Ferlens formed a municipality together with Servion, only since then has it been a politically independent municipality. Ferlens does not have his own church; it belongs to the parish of Mézières.

Attractions

Web links

Commons : Ferlens  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nicolas Pépin / Andres Kristol, Ferlens VD (Oron) in: Dictionnaire toponymique des communes suisses - Lexicon of Swiss community names - Dizionario toponomastico dei comuni svizzeri (DTS | LSG) , Center de dialectologie, Université de Neuchâtel, Verlag Huber, Frauenfeld / Stuttgart / Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-7193-1308-5 and Éditions Payot, Lausanne 2005, ISBN 2-601-03336-3 , p. 351