Romanel-sur-Lausanne
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 Switzerland
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| Canton : |
 Vaud (VD)
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| District : | Lausanne |
| BFS no. : | 5592 |
| Postal code : | 1032 |
| Coordinates : | 536 166 / 157205 |
| Height : | 592 m above sea level M. |
| Height range : | 553–650 m above sea level M. |
| Area : | 2.88 km² |
| Residents: | 3309 (December 31, 2018) |
| Population density : | 1149 inhabitants per km² |
| Website: | www.romanel-sur-lausanne.ch |
 Romanel-sur-Lausanne church |
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Romanel-sur-Lausanne is a municipality in the district of Lausanne in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland .
geography
Romanel-sur-Lausanne lies at 592 m above sea level. M. , 5 km north-north-west of the canton capital Lausanne (linear distance). The suburban community of Lausanne extends on a plateau southwest of the Jorat , east of the valley system of Mèbre, in the Vaud Plateau .
The area of the municipal area of 2.9 km² covers a section of the Vaud Central Plateau north of the Lake Geneva basin . Most of the municipality's ground is taken up by the poorly structured plateau of Romanel, the highest point is at 640 m above sea level. M. north of the hamlet of La Naz. In the west, the area extends into the valley of a tributary of the Mèbre (tributary of the Chamberonne ). In 1997, 34% of the municipal area was accounted for by settlements, 3% for forests and woodlands and 63% for agriculture.
Romanel-sur-Lausanne includes several new housing estates as well as industrial and commercial zones and the hamlets of Le Taulard ( 570 m above sea level ) below the town center and Les Terraux ( 614 m above sea level ) on the plateau east of the village. Neighboring municipalities to Romanel-sur-Lausanne are Lausanne , Le Mont-sur-Lausanne , Jouxtens-Mézery and Prilly .
population
With 3,309 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2018) Romanel-sur-Lausanne is one of the medium-sized municipalities in the canton of Vaud. 89.2% of the residents are French-speaking, 4.2% German-speaking and 2.2% Italian-speaking (as of 2000). The population of Romanel-sur-Lausanne was 305 in 1900. Since 1950 (323 inhabitants) a rapid increase in population with a tenfold increase in the number of inhabitants has been observed within 50 years.
economy
Romanel-sur-Lausanne was a predominantly agricultural village until the middle of the 20th century . Today arable farming has hardly any significance in the income structure of the population.
The alkaline spring La Providence was used from 1900 to 1978. In 1962 the Brasserie du Boxer started brewing. With the creation of new industrial and commercial zones since the early 1970s, numerous companies settled in Romanel-sur-Lausanne. The major branches of industry include mechanical engineering , the chemical, electronic and precision engineering industries, precision engineering workshops, construction and the manufacture of lighting fixtures. The village is the site of a power station and a shopping center. There is also a sports center.
In the last few decades the village has developed into a residential community. Many workers are also commuters who work mainly in the city of Lausanne and in the surrounding communities.
traffic
The community has good transport connections. It is located on the main road 5 from Lausanne to Yverdon-les-Bains . The Lausanne-Blécherette motorway junction on the A9 (Lausanne-Sion), which opened in 1974, is around 2 km from the town. On November 5, 1873, the Lausanne - Cheseaux-sur-Lausanne section of the Chemin de fer Lausanne-Echallens-Bercher narrow-gauge railway was put into operation with a stop in Romanel-sur-Lausanne.
history
Individual traces from Roman times have been found in the municipality . The place was first mentioned in a document in 1182 under the name Romanel . Later the names Romanes (1184), Romenes (1191) and Romaneaus (1230) appeared. The name refers to a place that was inhabited by Romans, or the homestead of a person named Roman (i) us .
Romanel-sur-Lausanne has been under the cathedral chapter of Lausanne since the Middle Ages . 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 , Romanel-sur-Lausanne 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. In 1803 Romanel-sur-Lausanne became the capital of the Romanel district.
Attractions
In the old town center, some farmhouses from the 18th and 19th centuries have been preserved.
Web links
- Official website of the municipality of Romanel-sur-Lausanne (French)
- Mary Vacharidis: Romanel-sur-Lausanne. 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 .