Faoug

Faoug
State :	Switzerland
Canton :	Vaud (VD)
District :	Broye-Vully
BFS no. :	5458
Postal code :	1595
Coordinates :	572 508  /  195 311 coordinates: 46 ° 54 '30 "  N , 7 ° 4' 40"  O ; CH1903:  five hundred and seventy-two thousand five hundred and eight  /  195311
Height :	449  m above sea level M.
Height range :	429–485 m above sea level M.
Area :	3.48  km²
Residents:	904 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	260 inhabitants per km²
Website:	www.faoug.ch
Faoug
Location of the municipality

Faoug [ fu ], German Pfauen (Swiss German [ 'pfa: wə ]), is a municipality in the Broye-Vully district in the Swiss canton of Vaud .

geography

Aerial photo (1946)

Faoug is 449  m above sea level. M. , 14.5 km northeast of the district capital Payerne (air line), halfway to Murten . The village extends slightly higher on the south bank of the Murtensee , in the Swiss plateau .

The area of ​​the 3.5 km² municipal area includes a section on the south bank of Lake Murten. The municipality extends from the lakeshore southwards over the flat edge of the bank to the adjacent Molasse hill country with the wooded elevations Bois de Mottey ( 474  m above sea level ) and Bois de Rosset (at 485  m above sea level the highest point of Faoug). In the south and west, the border runs along the Chandon river , which flows into the Murten lake with a small alluvial cone. The western part of the municipality naturally belongs to the broad alluvial plain of the Broye southwest of Lake Murten. In 1997, 19% of the municipal area was in settlements, 25% in forests and woodlands, 55% in agriculture and a little less than 1% was unproductive land.

Some individual farms belong to Faoug. Faoug's neighboring communities are Avenches in the canton of Vaud, Courtepin , Courgevaux and Greng in the canton of Friborg and Clavaleyres in an exclave of the canton of Bern .

population

With 904 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2018) Faoug is one of the smaller municipalities in the canton of Vaud. 56.7% of the residents are French-speaking, 34.2% German-speaking and 3.2% Portuguese-speaking (as of 2000). The official language is French. The population of Faoug was 425 in 1850 and 440 in 1900. After the population had decreased slightly to 391 people by 1980, a significant increase in population has been registered since then.

coat of arms

The divided coat of arms is talking . It is a folk etymological reference of the place name to “peacock” and a correct derivation from the Latin fagus “beech”.

economy

Up until the beginning of the 20th century, Faoug was a predominantly agricultural village. Viticulture has been practiced since the 17th century, but over time it was displaced by grain, horticulture and artificial meadows and finally abandoned entirely. In the 19th century, the place developed into a regional center for wine, grain and horse trade and was the location of a duty-free warehouse . In the first half of the 20th century, a few smaller industrial companies settled in Faoug, including a precision engineering company, a brick factory and a pipe factory.

Today agriculture and fruit growing still have a certain importance in the income structure of the population. Further jobs are available in local small businesses and in the service sector. The local companies concentrate on the areas of horticulture, body construction and shipbuilding. In the last few decades the village has also developed into a residential community. Many of the employed people are commuters who work in the nearby towns of Avenches and Murten and, in some cases, in Bern. Faoug has a sports boat harbor and some holiday homes in the area of ​​the lake.

traffic

The community has good transport connections. It is located on main road 1 from Bern via Payerne to Lausanne , which was a relatively busy transit axis before the opening of the motorway. Today Faoug is relieved of transit traffic. The A1 motorway (Lausanne – Bern) crosses the southern municipality, with the next connections being Avenches (in the west) and Murten (in the east). On June 12, 1876, the Broyelinie (Murten-Payerne) was opened with a train station in Faoug.

history

The municipality of Faoug was settled very early. The earliest evidence is a lakeside settlement from the Neolithic and a country settlement that was inhabited during the Hallstatt period. The foundations of a villa and a cemetery were also found from Roman times due to the proximity to Aventicum .

The place was first mentioned in a document in 1228 under the name Fol . The names Fo (1290), Foz (1440) and Fols (1491) appeared later . The place name goes back to the old French word fol «beech, beech forest»; this in turn comes from the Latin fagum ( Acc . Sg. to Nom. Sg. fagus ). The German exonym Pfauen (first written mention in 1250: apud Phawen ) is very old, because in its diphthong it retains the old Provencal sound [faw] and thus an older sound than the current French place name. It was reinterpreted as peacock early on in terms of folk etymology , which is reflected in the village coat of arms, which shows a peacock on the left and a beech on the right. The German form of the name has remained lively in the region.

Faoug and Avenches have belonged to the Bishop of Lausanne since the Middle Ages . With the conquest of Vaud by Bern in 1536, the village came under the administration of the Bailiwick of Avenches . After the collapse of the Ancien Régime , Faoug was annexed to the canton of Friborg during the Helvetic Republic in 1798 . When the Mediation Constitution came into force in 1803, the village, together with what is now the Avenches district, was reassigned to the canton of Vaud as an exclave.

Attractions

See also : List of cultural assets in Faoug

The core of the reformed parish church dates back to the 12th century. From this time only the Romanesque choir is preserved, the other parts come from the numerous later renovations and new buildings. Next to the church is the rectory, which was built in the 16th century and later also underwent several changes. The kiln building from 1785 adjoins the rectory to the east.

Personalities

• Henri Druey (1799–1855), politician and member of the Federal Council from 1848 to 1855
• Edmond-Henri Crisinel , poet

Web links

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

• Official website of the municipality of Faoug (French)
• Robert Pictet: Faoug. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Aerial views of the village

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. ↑ Lexicon of Swiss municipality names . Edited by the Center de Dialectologie at the University of Neuchâtel under the direction of Andres Kristol. Frauenfeld / Lausanne 2005, p. 346.