Prilly
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| State : |
 Switzerland
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| Canton : |
 Vaud (VD)
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| District : | Ouest lausannois |
| BFS no. : | 5589 |
| Postal code : | 1008 |
| Coordinates : | 536 047 / 154025 |
| Height : | 481 m above sea level M. |
| Height range : | 417–612 m above sea level M. |
| Area : | 2.20 km² |
| Residents: | 12,399 (December 31, 2018) |
| Population density : | 5636 inhabitants per km² |
| Unemployment rate : | 5.5% (May 31, 2,015) |
| Website: | www.prilly.ch |
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Prilly is a municipality in the Ouest Lausanne district in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland .
geography
Prilly is 481 m above sea level. M. , 3 km northwest of the canton capital Lausanne (linear distance). The urban agglomeration of Lausanne extends on the slope that adjoins Lake Geneva to the north , in the Vaud Central Plateau , in a panoramic position around 100 m above lake level of Lake Geneva.
The 2.2 km² municipal area covers a section of the slope northwest of Lausanne, which is divided into several terraced areas. The parish soil extends from the lowest terrace (around 430 m above sea level ) east of Malley northwards over the middle terrace of Prilly (around 480 m above sea level ) to the plateau at Cery west of the Blécherette airfield (around 600 m above sea level ). The highest point of Prilly is 612 m above sea level. M. reached north of Cery. In 1997, 80% of the municipal area was accounted for by settlements, 6% for forests and woodlands and 14% for agriculture.
The settlement of Cery belongs to Prilly at 590 m above sea level. M. above the city. The neighboring municipalities of Prilly are Lausanne , Romanel-sur-Lausanne , Jouxtens-Mézery and Renens .
population
With a population of 12,399 (as of December 31, 2018), Prilly is one of the largest municipalities in the canton of Vaud. 80.1% of the residents are French-speaking, 4.6% Italian-speaking and 3.3% German-speaking (as of 2000). The population of Prilly was 309 in 1850 and 1569 in 1900. After a very strong population increase since the beginning of the 20th century, especially between 1950 and 1970, a clear population decline was observed again. The decline is attributed to the emigration of foreigners after the economic crisis in the 1970s and, more recently, to the aging of the population. In addition, there are hardly any land reserves left for new housing developments. The settlement area of Prilly has now seamlessly merged with those of Lausanne, Renens and Jouxtens-Mézery.
| Population development | |||||||||||
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| year | 1850 | 1900 | 1910 | 1930 | 1950 | 1960 | 1970 | 1980 | 1990 | 2000 | |
| Residents | 309 | 1,569 | 2,358 | 3,276 | 3,992 | 8'430 | 13,352 | 11,931 | 11,284 | 10,955 | |
economy
Prilly was a rural village until the beginning of the 20th century. At that time, viticulture was practiced on the slopes around the town center . Today only a small slope is cultivated and the primary sector has hardly any significance in the employment structure of the population.
Due to its location directly on the city limits of Lausanne, the settlement pressure on Prilly rose sharply as early as 1900. Since then, industrial and commercial areas have emerged mainly below the village center in the area of the railway lines. Important companies today are Bobst SA (packaging; since 1937) and Sicpa Holding SA (security printing inks ; since 1927). There are also around 300 other businesses, mostly of medium to small size. Information technology , the transport industry, as well as printing and publishing are considered to be important branches of industry .
The slopes around the old town center were almost completely built over with apartment blocks, single-family houses and villas.
The cantonal psychiatric institution of Cery (since 1873) together with the psychogeriatric hospital, the psychiatric university clinic, the psychiatric counseling center of the University of Lausanne for children and adolescents (SUPEA) and the therapeutic center for adolescents (CTA) are located in the municipality of Prilly . The Waadtländer Kantonalbank ( Banque Cantonale Vaudoise ) also has its administrative center in Prilly.
In addition to the usual school training facilities, Prilly has a cantonal school for psychiatric nursing and a school for car plowers. The Malley ice rink (since 1983), the home stadium of the HC Lausanne ice hockey club, is one of the most important sports facilities .
traffic
The community has good transport connections. It is located on the main road 9 from Lausanne to Vallorbe . The nearest motorway connections are Lausanne-Malley on the western approach road to Lausanne (opened in 1964) and Lausanne-Blécherette on the A9 (Lausanne – Sion) opened in 1974 , both around 2 km from the town center.
The municipal area of Prilly is crossed by the Lausanne – Geneva railway line and since 2011 there has been a stop in Prilly-Malley . The closest train stations on the national route are Lausanne and Renens. The upper part of the municipality is accessed by three stops on the Lausanne-Echallens-Bercher narrow-gauge railway . The Lausanne - Cheseaux-sur-Lausanne section was put into operation on November 5, 1873. The municipality is also served by the Lausanne trolleybus and several bus routes of the Transports publics de la région Lausannoise .
history
The place was first mentioned in a document in 976 under the name Presliacus . In the 12th and 13th centuries the names Prelie , Priliez and Priliacum appeared ; other spellings were Prilie (1218), Prillie (1228) and Prilliez (1453). The place name goes back to the Latin personal name Preslius .
In the Middle Ages , the Lausanne Cathedral Chapter and the Saint-Maurice Abbey owned rich properties in Prilly. The village was ruled by the Bishop of Lausanne, who gave it to the lords of Prilly as a fief. Later there were numerous changes of ownership (the temporary owner was Isbrand Daux , who wanted to conspire to play Vaud into the hands of Savoy during the Bernese period) until the rule came to Lausanne in 1729.
With the conquest of Vaud by Bern in 1536, the village came under the administration of the rural bailiff of Lausanne . After the collapse of the Ancien Régime , Prilly 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. During the 1950s, incorporation into Lausanne was up for debate, but this was not pursued any further later. With the crossing of the 10,000-inhabitant limit, Prilly was declared a town in 1962.
Attractions
The reformed parish church (Eglise de Broye) near the parish boundary of Renens was built between 1765 and 1768. It has a baroque - classicist bell tower. In the area of the former town center is the Prilly Castle, a 17th century manor house that now houses the municipal administration. The only remnants of the former rural village are an oven house (around 1800), the Castelmont farmhouse (1820), a rectory and a Bernese house from 1690.
In 1908 the Jewish cemetery in Prilly was laid out. The Catholic Church dates from 1960. In 1991 the town center was redesigned and a community center was built.
Personalities
- Arthur Fonjallaz (1875–1944), Colonel in the Swiss Army and a prominent figure in the front movement , was born in Prilly
- Lauriane Gilliéron (* 1984), Miss Switzerland 2005, daughter of the Mayor of Prilly, Alain Gilliéron
Web links
- Official website of the municipality of Prilly (French)
- Michel Depoisier: Prilly. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Aerial photography
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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 .
- ↑ 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).