Froideville VD

VD is the abbreviation for the canton of Vaud in Switzerland and is used to avoid confusion with other entries of the name Froideville .

Froideville
State :	Switzerland
Canton :	Vaud (VD)
District :	Gros-de-Vaud
BFS no. :	5523
Postal code :	1055
Coordinates :	541 916  /  161439 coordinates: 46 ° 36 '6 "  N , 6 ° 40' 50"  O ; CH1903:  541916  /  161439
Height :	819  m above sea level M.
Height range :	753–909 m above sea level M.
Area :	7.08  km²
Residents:	2579 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	364 inhabitants per km²
Website:	www.froideville.ch
Froideville
Location of the municipality

Froideville is a municipality in the Gros-de-Vaud district in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland .

geography

Aerial photo (1964)

Froideville is 819  m above sea level. M. , 6 km south-east of Echallens and 9 km north-north-east of the canton capital Lausanne (linear distance). The village extends on a plateau on the northwestern roof of the Jorat , in the Vaud Central Plateau .

The area of ​​the 7.1 km² municipal area covers a section of the higher Vaud Central Plateau. The northwestern part of the village is occupied by the open plateau in the vicinity of the village, at the height Epinettes with 844  m above sea level. M. culminates. This plateau is bordered in the south by the valley of the Talent River . To the southeast, the municipality extends into the extensive wooded area of ​​the Bois du Jorat , in which the Talent and in the northern section the source streams of the Mentue ( Ruisseau de la Rosse and Corbassière ) arise. The highest elevation of Froideville is 907  m above sea level. M. reached in the forest of Jorat. In 1997, 10% of the municipal area was accounted for by settlements, 51% for forests and woodlands and 39% for agriculture.

Froideville includes the former hamlet of Rossy ( 810  m above sea level ), which has now been expanded to include new building quarters, several other new single-family housing estates and some individual farms. The neighboring municipalities of Froideville are Lausanne , Bottens , Poliez-Pittet , Jorat-Menthue , Corcelles-le-Jorat and Montpreveyres .

population

With 2579 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2018), Froideville is one of the medium-sized municipalities in the canton of Vaud. 91.3% of the residents are French-speaking, 5.3% German-speaking and 0.9% Italian-speaking (as of 2000). The population of Froideville was 454 in 1850 and 360 in 1900. After the population had decreased to 266 people by 1960, a rapid population increase was recorded again with a five-fold increase in the number of inhabitants within 40 years.

economy

Until the second half of the 20th century, Froideville was mainly an agricultural village. Today, animal husbandry and agriculture are of secondary importance in the income structure of the population. Further jobs are available in small businesses and in the service sector. With the population growth since the 1970s, numerous smaller companies also settled in the village. In recent decades the village has developed into a residential community thanks to its proximity to Lausanne. Many workers are therefore commuters who work mainly in the greater Lausanne area.

traffic

The community is located off the main thoroughfares, but has good connections to Lausanne . Froideville is connected to the public transport network by bus line 60 (Lausanne-Froideville) of the Transports publics de la région Lausannoise . A post bus course runs from Froideville to Thierrens .

history

The place was first mentioned in a document in 1284 under the name Frigida Villa (from the Latin word frigidus meaning cool, cold); In 1502 the name Freydevilla appeared . The area around Froideville was reclaimed in the 13th century by monks from the monastery of Montheron . In the course of time lay people, servants and peasants settled here, who were subject to taxes to the monastery until 1455.

With the conquest of Vaud by Bern in 1536, Froideville 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 Echallens district. In 1803 the former Montheron monastery and the surrounding houses were incorporated into Froideville, separated again in 1813 and added to the urban area of ​​Lausanne.

Attractions

Froideville has had an ecumenical center since 1985. In the forest of Jorat, at the meeting of the borders of the three districts of Lausanne, Echallens and Oron, the monumental boundary stone Borne des trois Jorats has been located since 1536 ; the original was replaced in 1928.

Web links

Commons : Froideville VD  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of the municipality of Froideville (French)
• François Béboux: Froideville. 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 .