Lutry

This article covers the municipality of Lutry in Switzerland. For the place Lutry in Poland ( German  Lautern ) see Lutry .

Lutry
State :	Switzerland
Canton :	Vaud (VD)
District :	Lavaux-Oron
BFS no. :	5606
Postal code :	1095
Coordinates :	542 257  /  150411 coordinates: 46 ° 30 '9 "  N , 6 ° 41' 11"  O ; CH1903:  542,257  /  150411
Height :	383  m above sea level M.
Height range :	372–836 m above sea level M.
Area :	8.46  km²
Residents:	10,290 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	1216 inhabitants per km²
Unemployment rate :	2.4% (May 31, 2,015)
Website:	www.lutry.ch
Lutry
Location of the municipality

Lutry is a municipality in the Lavaux-Oron district in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland .

geography

Saturday market in Lutry

Lutry is 383  m above sea level. M. , 5 km east-south-east of the canton capital Lausanne (air line). The city extends in western Lavaux , on the small alluvial cone formed by the Lutrive stream when it flows into Lake Geneva , at the southern foot of the heights of the Jorat .

Aerial photo (1964)

The 8.5 km² municipal area covers a section of the Lavaux on the north shore of Lake Geneva (around 2.5 km of the lakeshore line). The community soil extends northward from the lakeshore over the flat edge of the bank and the vineyards on both sides of the valleys of the Lutrive and the Bouteiller . The north-western border runs along the Flon , a tributary of the Paudèze . In the north and northeast the area extends to the high plateau south of the Jorat. Here is the forest area Bois de la Ville , in which at 830  m above sea level. M. the highest point of Lutry is reached. In 1997, 33% of the municipal area was accounted for by settlements, 21% for forests and woodlands and 46% for agriculture.

Lutry includes the hamlets of Châtelard ( 408  m above sea level ) on Bouteiller and Savuit ( 466  m above sea level ) in the vines above the village, La Conversion ( 501  m above sea level ), Corsy ( 567  m above sea level). M. ) and Bossières ( 569  m above sea level ), also located on the slope, the scattered settlement of Monts de Lutry (mostly single-family houses) with the hamlet of La Croix-sur-Lutry ( 636  m above sea level ) above the motorway and numerous Single yards. The neighboring communities of Lutry are Paudex , Belmont-sur-Lausanne , Savigny and Bourg-en-Lavaux . The municipality borders France on Lake Geneva .

population

Population development
year	Residents
1850	2011
1900	2243
1910	2559
1930	2595
1950	2916
1960	3481
1970	4994
1980	5884
1990	7239
2000	8270

With 10,290 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2018), Lutry is one of the largest municipalities in the canton of Vaud. It is the largest municipality in the Lavaux region in terms of population. 83.1% of the residents are French-speaking, 6.4% German-speaking and 3.8% English-speaking (as of 2000). The population of Lutry was 2243 in 1900. During the 20th century the population increased slowly at first. The number of inhabitants has more than doubled since 1960; especially during the 1960s and 1980s a strong increase was recorded. Today the settlement area of ​​Lutry has merged seamlessly with that of Paudex and Belmont-sur-Lausanne.

economy

Up until the beginning of the 20th century, Lutry was a town dominated by agriculture . After that, with the strong growth of Lausanne, it quickly fell into its wake. Settlement pressure has increased since around 1950. With the construction of numerous single family homes over the past few decades, Lutry has developed into a residential community. Many workers are therefore commuters who work primarily in the Lausanne region. Today, Lutry is part of the Lausanne agglomeration.

11% of the workforce are still employed in agriculture, while the secondary sector accounts for 15% and the service sector for 74% of the workforce. Viticulture is still very important today on the perfectly sunny slopes of Lavaux (around 130 hectares). Lutry is considered the largest vine-growing community in Lavaux (see also the article on viticulture in Switzerland ). The quality wines are produced under the Lutry appellation (west of the Ruisseau de Bouteiller) and Villette appellation (east of this stream). Agriculture and animal husbandry predominate on the plateaus on the edge of the Jorat .

Around 400 small and medium-sized companies are currently based in Lutry. Companies from the graphics industry, precision mechanics, construction, IT and handicrafts as well as many wine shops are represented. In addition to everyday goods, Lutry's business is also heavily geared towards tourism. The city has a good tourist infrastructure. This also includes two harbors: the Port de Lutry and the Port du Vieux Stand, which opened in 1998. Every autumn, the Fête des Vendanges, a wine harvest festival, is held in Lutry.

traffic

The community is very well developed in terms of transport. It is located on the main road 9 , which leads from Lausanne along the lakeshore via Vevey and Montreux into the Valais . The next motorway connection to the A9 (Lausanne-Sion), which opened in 1974 and crosses the municipality, is Belmont (around 2 km from the city center). The Lavaux motorway service station is on the municipal boundary between Lutry and Villette (Lavaux).

On April 2, 1861, the Lausanne-Villeneuve section of the railway line from Lausanne to Valais was inaugurated with a train station on the outskirts of Lutry. Only a little later, on September 4, 1862, the Lausanne-Freiburg railway line went into operation. This line crosses the municipal area on the slope and has two stations at Lutry with La Conversion and Bossière . Transports publics de la région Lausannoise take care of the fine distribution of public transport with line 9 of the Lausanne trolleybus (Prilly – Lausanne – Lutry) and bus lines 66, 47 and 69. Lutry can also be reached via passenger shipping on Lake Geneva with other lakeside communities connected.

history

Menhirs of Lutry

Lutry can look back on a very long tradition of settlement. The earliest human witness is the row of stones with menhirs (" menhirs ") from the Neolithic, discovered in 1984 . A comparison with French decorative forms points to an earliest construction by the Chassey-Lagozza-Cortaillod culture around 4500 to 4000 BC. At that time there was probably a settlement on the banks of the riverbank near Lutry.

During Roman times, there was a fishing village on the lakeshore called Lustriacum and a watchtower.

The place was first mentioned in a document in 516 under the name Lustriacum . Later the names appeared in Lustraco (907), Lustriei (1147), Lustrey (1160), Lustrie (1213), Lustriez (1536) and in 1849 the notation Lutri was used. The etymology of the place name is unclear. It could have been derived from the Latin word lustrum (refuge, cave).

The area around Lutry belonged to the Kingdom of Burgundy in the High Middle Ages . In the early 11th century, a Benedictine priory was founded in Lutry under the Savigny-en-Lyonnais Abbey in France. A settlement was built around the priory, which came to the Bishop of Lausanne in 1079. In the period between 1212 and 1220, Lutry was surrounded by fortification walls and later granted town charter.

With the conquest of Vaud by Bern in 1536, Lutry came under the administration of the Bailiwick of Lausanne . In the course of the introduction of the Reformation by the Bernese rule, the priory was secularized. After the collapse of the Ancien Régime , Lutry 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 Lavaux district. It was not until 1824 that Savigny separated from the large parish of Lutry.

Attractions

See also : List of Cultural Assets in Lutry

Tour de Bertholod

The historic old town of Lutry lies on the alluvial cone east of the confluence of the Lutrive in Lake Geneva. It has an irregular floor plan around 300 m long and up to 200 m wide. The well-preserved medieval town center with narrow streets and numerous town and patrician houses from the 15th to 18th centuries is a listed building. The fortifications and city gates were demolished, only the Tour du Bourg-Neuf from the 13th century in the west of the city still stands.

Today's Reformed parish church of Saint-Martin in the center of the old town is the only remaining part of the former Benedictine priory. The first Romanesque priory church was built in the 11th century. In the centuries that followed, however, numerous alterations and extensions were made: the polygonal choir dates from 1260, the nave was redesigned after a fire in 1344, and the north side chapels were added in the 14th and 15th centuries. There were other changes after the Reformation. The current tower was built in 1544 and the richly carved Renaissance portal was designed in 1569–78 . The interior is decorated with Mannerist decorative painting from the 16th century.

On the north-eastern edge of the old town stands the castle, the core of which dates back to the 14th century and was the seat of the Meier, who represented the Bishop of Lausanne in Lutry. It got its present form with an inner courtyard and two stair towers through extensions in the 16th century. Significant wall paintings in the stairwell also date from this period. The castle came to the city of Lutry in 1854 and has housed the local government since 1942.

The center of the old town is the Place de la Couronne with a fountain from 1676. Other buildings to be mentioned are: the Bâtiment des Halles (from the 15th century, later redesigned several times), the Tour de l'Evêque, the Maison du Simplon from the 13th to 15th centuries and the Gothic Maison des De Prez (14th century).

A little outside the city at the foot of the vineyards stands the oval Tour de Bertholod, which was built at the beginning of the 13th century and was initially the seat of the episcopal administrator. Attached to it is a house from the 17th century. The building is owned by the city of Payerne , which produces its own wine under the Lutry appellation.

In the hamlet of Savuit there is a so-called Roman scale from the 17th century.

A sensational find was made in 1984 during excavation work for a parking garage. In the alluvial earth material of the Lutrive, 24 menhirs (" menhirs ") from the Neolithic (4500 to 4000 BC) were discovered, the largest of which weigh around 13 tons. The menhirs were erected in their original formation.

Web links

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

• Official website of the municipality of Lutry (French)
• Patrick Moinat and Louis-Daniel Perret: Lutry. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Aerial views of the community
• Fête des Vendanges (French)

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 . 
2. ↑ Demandeurs d'emploi, chômeurs et taux de chômage par commune. ( XLS , 115 kB) Statistique Vaud, Département des finances et des relations extérieures (Statistics Vaud, Department of Finance and Foreign Affairs), accessed on June 14, 2015 (French). 
3. ↑ Notre histoire: La balance Romaine à Savuit