Fey, Switzerland
Fey (Fr. [ fɛ ]; fpr [(a) fa ː ɛ ]. ) Is a village and a municipality in the district of Gros- de -Vaud in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.
Geography
Fey is at 638 m above sea level. Level, 5 km north-east of Echallens and 18 km north of the canton capital Lausanne ( straight line ). The scattered village extends to the vast plateau of the northeastern Gros de Vaud, in the Vaud Mittelland.
The area of 7.4 km ² large municipality area includes a portion of the gently undulating plateau of Gros de Vaud, the granary of the canton of Vaud. The plateau of Fey is about 2 km wide and is on the west by Sauteru, bounded on the east by the Mentue and her left side Bach Botterel. These rivers have dug deep valleys into the molasse of the Vaud Mittelland. They each form the municipal boundary of Fey, only in the north- west is a small part of 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. has only small differences in relief. The highest elevation is 685 m above sea level. M. reached on the signal south of the village. At the southernmost reaches of the communal land to the forest of Courtilloud, in the north- east in the forest of Béta. From the municipality surface 1997 4 % came from settlements, 27 % of forest and woody plants and 69% to agriculture.
For Fey include numerous individual farms. The neighboring communities of Fey in the north- north-east Rueyres, northeast Bercher, in the east Boulens, in the southeast Montanaire, in the south Montilliez, in the southwest of Villars- le -Terroir, in the north- west and the north Vuarrens Pailly.
Population
With 588 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012) Fey is one of the small communities of the Canton of Vaud. Of the 95.3 % inhabitants are French-speaking, German-speaking 1.4 % and 1.4 % portugiesischsprachig (as of 2000). The population of Fey amounted in 1850 to 513 residents in 1900 to 476 inhabitants. After the population had decreased to 1970 to 306 people, a significant increase in population was recorded again.
Economy
Fey was up in the second half of the 20th century, mainly coined by farming village. Even today, the farming, fruit growing and cattle breeding have some significance in the occupational structure of the population. More jobs are in small businesses and in the service provided. In the Valley of Mentue there was formerly a mill. In recent decades, the village has developed into a residential community. Many workers are therefore commuters who work mainly in the greater Lausanne and Yverdon.
Traffic
The community is easily accessible via normal, although it is located away from larger thoroughfares on the main road from Echallens to Bercher. On November 24, 1898, the stretch was Echallens - Bercher the narrow gauge railway Chemin de fer Lausanne- Echallens - Bercher ( LEB) taken with a station in Fey in operation.
History
The first documentary mention of the place in mid- 12th century as Feio. The place name is probably on Latin fāgeum, book, book grove, beech ' back. Since the Middle Ages Fey was under the rule 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 from 1798 to 1803 during the Helvetic Republic to the canton of Geneva, who came up then with the enactment of the Act of Mediation in the canton of Vaud. 1798 was assigned to the District Echallens, which was expanded in 2008 to the District Gros -de- Vaud.
Attractions
The parish church of Saint- Etienne is mentioned 1166. The present building was inaugurated in 1702. In the center some characteristic farmhouses from the 17th and 18th centuries have been preserved. Until 1944, the so-called " George Beech " was under the trailer to the writer Stefan George met twice a year - every spring and autumn - and recitations were holding; the high tree was struck by lightning in the summer of 1944 and had to be felled.