Fête des Vignerons

The Fête des Vignerons ( dt: Feast of the winery ) is a Swiss Wine Festival, which takes place about every 25 years in Vevey in the canton of Vaud.

History

The Fête des Vignerons is organized by the local wine brotherhood called Confrérie des vignerons. This was originally an association of landowners who controlled their own Rebarbeiter, the civic community and the Bernese authorities. Probably the Brotherhood was founded in the Middle Ages under the name of Abbaye de l'agriculture de Vevey or Abbaye de Saint -Urbain. However, Occupied records exist only since 1647.

At that time, only a simple procession in the form of a move has been performed annually in Vevey. On the tips of rods wooden figures were worn (so-called marmousets ) and from 1730 also represented the figure of a little boy who Bacchus and from 1747 a young person who Ceres, the goddess of the harvest represented.

As of 1741, the move every three years and 1783 was only conducted every six years. Under the influence of the Economic Society of Bern, the organizing committee to honor the best Rebarbeiter at a ceremony and decided to reward. Thus, it was a wine festival in 1797 for the simple relocation.

Since then, may consist of a tribune, whose access is not free, the population participate in the ceremony. The festival was organized according to the four seasons and from 1819 was the thematic dance that belongs to such a feast, complete. For each fixed the representation of the field work, the grazing cattle, work in the vineyard, the worship of the fatherland, as well as figures from the Greek, Latin and Christian mythology belongs. Since then celebrated each new generation of their hard Rebarbeiter the best from the Lavaux ( area between Pully and Bex ), the main objective was the memory and identity.

Since the middle of the 19th century also viewed musicians and writers are participating in this festival.

Previous Festivals

So far, eleven wine festivals, as they are carried out in today's context, celebrated. The next festival will take place in the period from 26 July to 11 August 2019.

1797

  • Date: unknown
  • Guest of honor: Louis levade
  • Stage: unknown
  • Arena: 2,000 Places
  • Number of actors and extras: unknown

1819

  • Date: 5th - 6th August
  • Guest of honor: Louis levade
  • Stage: unknown
  • Arena: 2,000 Places
  • Number of actors and extras: 730

1833

  • Date: 8th - 9th August
  • Guest of Honor: Vincent Doret
  • Stage: unknown
  • Arena: 4,000 Places
  • Number of actors and extras: 780

1851

  • Date: 7 -8. August
  • Guest of Honour: François DEJOUX
  • Stage: unknown
  • Music: François Grast
  • Arena: 8,000 Places
  • Number of actors and extras: 900

1865

  • Date: 26th-27th July,
  • Guest of honor: Louis Bonjour
  • Stage: unknown
  • Music: François Grast
  • Arena: 10,500 seats
  • Number of actors and extras: 1,200

1889

  • Date: 5th, 6th, 8th and 9th
  • Guest of honor: Paul Ceresole
  • Stage: Ernest Burnat
  • Music: Hugo de Senger
  • Sponsor: none
  • Arena: 12,000 seats
  • Number of actors and extras: 1,379

1905

  • Date: 4th, 5th, 7th, 8th and 9th
  • Guest of Honour: Emile Gaudard
  • Stage design: René Morax
  • Music: Gustave Doret
  • Sponsor: René Morax
  • Arena: 12,500 seats
  • Number of actors and extras: 1,800

1927

  • Date: 1st and 9th
  • Guest of Honour: Emile Gaudard
  • Stage: Edouard Vierne, replaced by A. Durec
  • Music: Gustave Doret
  • Sponsor: Pierre Girard
  • Arena: 14,000 seats
  • Number of actors and extras: 2,000

1955

  • Date: 1st and 15 August
  • Guest of Honor: David Dénéréaz
  • Set Design: Oscar Eberlé
  • Music: Carlo Hemmerling
  • Sponsor: Géo H. Blanc
  • Arena capacity: 16,000 seats
  • Number of actors and extras: 3,850

1977

  • Date: July 30 - 14th August
  • Guest of Honour: Philippe Dénéréaz
  • Stage: Charles Apothéloz
  • Music: Jean Balissat
  • Costumes: Jean Monod
  • Sponsor: Henri Deblue
  • Arena: 15'776 places
  • Number of actors and extras: 4,250

1999

  • Date: July 29-August 15
  • Guest of Honor: Marc -Henri Chaudet
  • Stage design: François Rochaix
  • Music: Jean -François Bovard, Michel Hostettler, Jost Meier
  • Sponsor: François Deblue
  • Arena capacity: 16,000 seats
  • Number of actors and extras: 5'050 of which 670 riders

Trivia

The Swiss Mint Swissmint issued in honor of the wine festival 1999, two commemorative coins.

100-franc coin special

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