Fey VD

VD is the abbreviation for the canton of Vaud in Switzerland and is used to avoid confusion with other entries of the name Fey .

Fey
State :	Switzerland
Canton :	Vaud (VD)
District :	Gros-de-Vaud
BFS no. :	5522
Postal code :	1044
UN / LOCODE :	CH FEY
Coordinates :	542 059  /  169 713 coordinates: 46 ° 40 '34 "  N , 6 ° 40' 53"  O ; CH1903:  542 059  /  one hundred and sixty-nine thousand seven hundred and thirteen
Height :	638  m above sea level M.
Height range :	556–690 m above sea level M.
Area :	7.34  km²
Residents:	735 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	100 inhabitants per km²
Website:	www.fey-vd.ch
Fey
Location of the municipality

Fey ( French [ fɛ ]; fpr. [ (A) faːɛ ]) is a village and a political municipality in the district of Gros-de-Vaud in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland .

geography

Fey is at 638  m above sea level. M. , 5 km northeast of Echallens and 18 km north of the canton capital of Lausanne (as the crow flies). The clustered village extends over the wide plateau of the north-eastern Gros de Vaud , in the Vaud Central Plateau .

The 7.4 km² municipal area covers a section of the gently undulating high plateau of the Gros de Vaud, the granary of the canton of Vaud. The Fey plateau is around 2 km wide and is bounded in the west by the Sauteru , in the east by the Mentue and its left side stream, the Botterel . These rivers have carved deep valleys into the molasse layers of the Vaud Central Plateau. They each form the municipal boundary of Fey, only in the northwest is a small part in the forest area of Les Colombettes on the western side of the Sauteru. The plateau at an average of 640  m above sea level. M. shows only slight differences in relief. The highest elevation is 685  m above sea level. M. reached on the signal south of the village. In the far south the parish reaches into the forest of Courtilloud , in the northeast into the forest of Béta . In 1997, 4% of the municipal area was accounted for by settlements, 27% for forests and woodlands and 69% for agriculture.

Numerous individual farms belong to Fey. The neighboring communities of Fey are in the north-northeast Rueyres , in the northeast Bercher , in the east Boulens , in the southeast Montanaire , in the south Montilliez , in the southwest Villars-le-Terroir , in the northwest Vuarren and in the north Pailly .

population

With 735 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2018), Fey is one of the small communities in the canton of Vaud. 95.3% of the residents are French-speaking, 1.4% German-speaking and 1.4% Portuguese-speaking (as of 2000). The population of Fey was 513 in 1850 and 476 in 1900. After the population had decreased to 306 by 1970, a significant increase in population was recorded again.

economy

Fey was a predominantly agricultural village until the second half of the 20th century . Even today, arable farming , fruit growing and animal husbandry have a certain importance in the income structure of the population. Further jobs are available in small businesses and in the service sector. There used to be a mill in the valley of the Mentue. In the last few decades the village has developed into a residential community. Many workers are therefore commuters who work mainly in the greater Lausanne area and in Yverdon .

traffic

The community is well developed in terms of traffic, although it is located away from major through roads on the cantonal road from Echallens to Bercher . On November 24, 1898, the Echallens - Bercher section of the Chemin de fer Lausanne-Echallens-Bercher (LEB) narrow-gauge railway with a station in Fey was put into operation.

history

The first written mention of the place took place in the middle of the 12th century as Feio . The place name probably goes back to the Latin fāgeum ' book, beech grove , beech '. Since the Middle Ages, Fey has been under the rule of Bercher. With the conquest of Vaud by Bern in 1536, the village came under the administration of the Bailiwick of Yverdon . After the collapse of the Ancien Régime , Fey 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 Echallens district, which was expanded to become the Gros-de-Vaud district in 2008 .

Attractions

The parish church of Saint-Etienne is mentioned as early as 1166. The current building was inaugurated in 1702. Some characteristic farmhouses from the 17th and 18th centuries have been preserved in the town center. The so-called "George Book" existed until 1944, under which fans of the writer Stefan George met every six months - always in spring and autumn - and held recitations; the tall tree was struck by lightning in the summer of 1944 and had to be felled.

Web links

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

• Official website of the municipality of Fey VD
• Community information
• Marianne Stubenvoll: Fey. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Aerial photography

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. ↑ ^{a b} Chantal Schüle-Marro: Fey VD (Échallens) in: Dictionnaire toponymique des communes suisses - Lexicon of Swiss community names - Dizionario toponomastico dei comuni svizzeri (DTS | LSG). Center de dialectologie, Université de Neuchâtel, Verlag Huber, Frauenfeld / Stuttgart / Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-7193-1308-5 and Éditions Payot, Lausanne 2005, ISBN 2-601-03336-3 , p. 354