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    Warum sieht Lausanne so aus?


    Warum sieht Lausanne so aus?

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    Von ihatebeinganonymous

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    1. ihatebeinganonymous on

      The last time I looked for more information on this shape of the commune of Lausanne, I couldn’t find much, and what I found was confusing. For example, that exclave in northwest is sometimes part of other communes depending where I look, and that “Lausanne 26” area in the northeast can have multiple postal codes, it seems :-/

      What is the story behind this shape, if any?

      Many thanks.

    2. GIC68 on

      What’s so special about that shape, that you think it’s notable? For me that looks more or less like any other city at a lake shore.

    4. renens_reditor1020 on

      It’s natural park, looks like lausanne funds it the most

    5. toiletclogger2671 on

      either hunting grounds that belonged to some sort of feudal lord of lausanne or a more recent addition to make sure the city has sovereignty over resources like timber or water

    6. PaiouH on

      It’s just a guess, but I’d say that the Vernand district (the enclave to the northwest) and the chalet-à-gobet area are former city forest properties. They may therefore have been included within the city limits at a later date.

    7. monsieur2000 on

      I’m not an expert on Lausanne history but I know some general contexts about history and I could help us understand this shape :

      1. During the Middle Age the possessions of a lord or an Abbey where a patchwork of part of the land with no geographical coherence. By the intermediary of weddings, trials, inheritance, a Lord will have an non continuous patchwork of land. When some cities became free at the end of the Middle age they inherited some lands cherry piqued by the lord who made them free. After that the city will act like a lord and gain some land where it could. 

      2. With the berner occupation of the Pays de Vaud, all the goods of the Catholic (bern was a protestant state) church were seized and Bishops and Abbey had many parcels of lands like the lords. Bern distributed the administration of these confiscated land to existent cities. 

      Typically, a big part of the north of Lausanne was the possessions of the Montheron Abbey, for example.

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