Trey, Switzerland
Trey
Trey is a municipality in the district Broye Vully the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.
Geography
Trey lies on 576 m above sea level. Level, 6 km south of the district main town Payerne ( straight line ). The village street line extends on a terrace on the eastern flank of the Broye, in the eastern canton of Vaud Mittelland.
The area of 3.8 km ² large municipality area includes a portion of the hill country between the middle and the Broyetal Glânetal. The communal land extends from the channelized Broye eastward across the broad Talniederung and the subsequent suspension of Canton Fribourg's Molassehügellandes. Above Trey is 628 m above sea level. M. reached the highest point of the municipality. The slope is, in two divided by the village stream of Trey, who has dug a valley in the molasse. South of this little valley reaches the area up to the plateau of Les Corvets (609 m above sea level. M. ). From the municipality surface 1997 9 % came from settlements, 18% of forest and shrubs, 72 % to agriculture and slightly more than 1% was unproductive land.
For Trey include the south of the village Bach hamlet on Malafin ( 579 m above sea level. M. ) and the hamlet of Granges- sous- Trey ( 475 m above sea level. M. ) increased slightly at the eastern edge of the valley of the Broye as well as several individual farms. Neighboring communities of Trey are Payerne, Valbroye in the Canton of Vaud and Fétigny, and Torny Chatonnaye in the Canton of Fribourg.
Population
With 251 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012) Trey is one of the small communities of the Canton of Vaud. Of the 87.9 % inhabitants are French-speaking, German-speaking and 10.3 % 0.4 % speak Polish (as of 2000). The population of Trey amounted in 1900 to 442 inhabitants. Throughout the 20th century, the population has decreased continuously.
Economy
Trey was up in the second half of the 20th century, mainly coined by farming village. Even today, the crop and livestock farming have an important role in the economic structure of the population. In Broyetal there is a large market garden. More jobs are in small local manufacturing and services available. In Trey was until 2001, the Institut de jeunes gens Cornamusaz. After the name change to Institute de Trey it existed until summer 2009. During the last decades the village has also developed into a residential community. Some of the working population commuters who work mainly in Payerne.
Traffic
The community is conveniently technically quite well developed. It lies on the road from Payerne to Romont. By Postbus course, which runs from Payerne to Romont, Trey is connected to the public transport network. In the valley below the village is the railway station of Trey inaugurated on August 25, 1876 Bahn Payerne -Moudon.
History
The first written mention of the village was carried out in 1138 under the name Treis. Later, the names Trai's ( 1142 ) published, Trees ( 1213), Trey ( 1254 ) and Treyz ( 1311 ). The place name comes from the Latin word tractus (location, area).
Since the Middle Ages Trey was under the monastery Payerne. With the conquest of Vaud by Bern in 1536, the village came under the administration of the government of Payerne. After the collapse of the ancien régime Trey 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 Payerne. On September 7, 1837, many houses were a village destroyed by fire.
Attractions
The Church of Trey was built in 1796 and restored in 1925. 1845 Today's meetinghouse was built, was formerly the village school. In the center are some typical farmhouses dating from the 18th and 19th centuries have been preserved. Of the former castle, which had been destroyed in 1401, today only few ruins are visible.