Peyres-Possens

State :

Switzerland

Canton :

Vaud (VD)

District :

Gros-de-Vaud

Municipality :

Montanaire

Postal code :

1063

former BFS no. :

5682

Coordinates :

544041 / 167965 coordinates: 46 ° 39 '38 " N , 6 ° 42' 27" O ; CH1903: 544041 / 167965

Height :

703 m above sea level M.

Area :

1.91 km²

Residents:

140 (December 31, 2012)

Population density :

73 inhabitants per km²

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Parish before the merger on December 31, 2012

Until December 31, 2012, Peyres-Possens was a municipality in the Gros-de-Vaud district of the canton of Vaud in Switzerland .

On January 1, 2013, it merged with the municipalities of Chanéaz , Chapelle-sur-Moudon , Correvon , Denezy , Martherenges , Neyruz-sur-Moudon , Saint-Cierges and Thierrens to form the new municipality of Montanaire .

geography

Peyres-Possens is 703 m above sea level. M. , 17 kilometers northeast of the canton capital of Lausanne (linear distance ). The small farming village extends on a terrace east of the valley cut of the Mentue , in the Molasse hill country of the northern Waadtländer Mittelland .

The area of the 1.9 km² former municipal area covers a section in the extreme northeast of the Gros de Vaud , the granary of the canton of Vaud. The western border is formed by the middle course of the Mentue, which has carved a deep valley into the molasse layers here over time. From here the parish extends eastward to the Plateau Plan Champ and the terrace of Peyres-Possens. In the southeast of the area at the height of Grands Champs , which drops with a steep forest slope towards the Mentue, at 793 m above sea level. M. the highest point of Peyres-Possens reached. In 1997, 9% of the former municipal area was accounted for by settlements, 40% for forests and woodlands and 51% for agriculture.

The former municipality consists of the two hamlets Peyres ( 721 m above sea level ) and Possens ( 703 m above sea level ) and the Roserette ( 715 m above sea level ) in between. Neighboring communities of Peyres-Possens were Boulens , Chapelle-sur-Moudon , Sottens , Montaubion-Chardonney , Dommartin , Naz and Fey .

population

With 140 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2012), Peyres-Possens was one of the smallest communities in the canton of Vaud. 89.5% of the residents are French-speaking, 4.9% German-speaking and 4.2% speak Albanian (as of 2000). The population of Peyres-Possens was 167 in 1900. After that, a decrease to 107 inhabitants was recorded by 1980 due to strong emigration; since then the population has increased slightly again.

economy

Until the middle of the 20th century, Peyres-Possens was predominantly an agricultural village. Even today, arable farming , fruit growing and cattle breeding play an important role in the income structure of the population. In 1944, a branch of the brickworks Morandi SA of Corcelles-près-Payerne was established on the Champ plan north of Possens , which maintains a large gravel pit here. Further jobs are available in local small businesses and in the service sector. In the last few decades the village has also developed into a residential community. Some workers are therefore commuters who work in the surrounding larger towns.

traffic

The former community is very well developed in terms of traffic. It is located on the main road from Lausanne to Thierrens . Peyres-Possens is connected to the public transport network through a Postbus course that runs from Echallens to Thierrens.

history

The first written mention of the place Peyres took place in 1228 under the name Pairi ; In 1364 the name Payri appeared . The place name goes back to the dialect form ( patois ) perrière (from the Latin petrarium meaning quarry ). Possens has been handed down under its current name since 1220. The spellings Pussens and Pousens (around 1230) as well as Posseins (1238) are attested from later times . This place name is derived from the Burgundian personal name Busso and means for the people of Busso .

In the Middle Ages , the villages of Peyres and Possens were owned by the Lausanne cathedral chapter. With the conquest of Vaud by Bern in 1536, they came under the administration of the Kastlanei Dommartin, an exclave in the Bailiwick of Lausanne . After the collapse of the Ancien Régime , Peyres-Possens 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 Moudon district.

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