Jongny

Jongny is a municipality in the district of Riviera -Pays- d'Enhaut the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.

Geography

Jongny is located on 639 m above sea level. M., 2 km north of the district main town Vevey ( straight line ). The village extends on both sides of the little valley of the Ruisseau de Bergère, on the steep southeastern slope of Mont Pelerin, a scenic location about 260 m above the lake level of Lake Geneva and high above Vevey.

The area of ​​2.2 km ² large municipality area includes a section near the northeastern shore of Lake Geneva. The communal land extends from the steep slope on the right (north) side of the valley of the Veveyse north on the broad saddle between the Mont Pelerin in the west and Mont Vuarat in the east. About this saddle ( 753 m above sea level. M. ) the watershed between the basins of the Rhone and Rhine runs. To the north, the area extends in a narrow tip into the headwaters of the Biorde that supplies their water Broye ( in the catchment area of ​​the Rhine ). The highest point of Jongny is 785 m above sea level. M. reached on the forest height of Mont Choisy. From the municipality surface 1997 24 % came from settlements, 20 % of forest and shrubs, 54% to agriculture and slightly less than 1% was unproductive land.

To Jongny include extensive housing estates and some individual farms. Neighboring communities of Jongny are Corsier -sur -Vevey, Canton of Vaud and Chardonne and Attalens in the Canton of Fribourg.

Population

With 1466 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012) Jongny belongs to the medium-sized municipalities in the canton of Vaud. Of the 83.8% inhabitants are French-speaking, German-speaking 9.1 % and 2.3 % in English (as of 2000). The population of Jongny amounted in 1850 to 279 residents in 1900 to 308 inhabitants. Since 1960 (386 inhabitants), the population has increased significantly, associated with a quadrupling of the population within 40 years. The settlement area of Jongny has grown together seamlessly with that of Chardonne.

Economy

Jongny was until the second half of the 20th century, mainly coined by farming village. Today, the crop and livestock farming have only a minor role in the occupational structure of the population. In the lowest part of the municipality is operated on a few hectares of vines.

More jobs are available in the local small businesses and especially in the service sector. There used in Jongny a brickyard and sawmill. In the village there today companies in the construction and transport industry and the advertising industry have settled. In recent decades, the village has ( with views of Lake Geneva and the Alps and in the south west to the Jura ) developed into a residential community, thanks to its attractive location. Many working population commuters, which partially work in the Vevey-Montreux region in Lausanne.

Traffic

The community is easily accessible via. It lies on the old main road from Vevey via Châtel -Saint- Denis to Freiburg. The nearest motorway connections to the A9 was opened in 1970 (Lausanne -Sion ) are located at Chexbres ( in the west) and in Vevey ( in the east), each approximately 6 km from the town center. By Postbus course, which runs from Vevey to Chatel -Saint -Denis, Jongny is connected to the public transport network.

History

The first written mention of the village was carried out in 1168 under the name Jaunie. Later, the names Jalnie and Galniei appeared ( in the 12th century), Jongnye ( 1373 ) and Jongnyez ( 1522). The etymology of the place name is unknown.

Jongny is located on the spot where the Roman period met the military roads of Aventicum ( Avenches ) and Lausanne and then along the east bank of Lake Geneva via Octodurum ( Martigny ) to the Great St Bernard led. Since the Middle Ages Jongny was under the Bishop of Lausanne and belonged to the parish Corsier. At times Jongny was a fief of the family of Blonay.

With the conquest of Vaud by Bern in 1536, the village came under the administration of the Bailiwick of Lausanne. After the collapse of the ancien régime Jongny 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 of Vevey. Jongny was part of the large parish Corsier and was only in 1816 with the separation of a politically independent community. End of the 19th century the first hotels were built. Jongny does not have its own church, it belongs to the parish Chardonne.