Forel, Vaud
Encyclopedia
Forel is a municipality
in the Swiss
canton
of Vaud
, located in the district of Lavaux-Oron.
, owning the land with the Lac de Joux Abbey. The document mentioning the forests of Forel (Fores) dates to 1274. In 1300 it was mentioned as Forel.
In 1298, Pierre Garnier Palézieux bought the hamlet of Forel (known today as the "In Forel") and the surrounding forests from Louis I of Savoy. Two years later, the same Baron of Vaud sold the land to the bishop of Lausanne and it became part of the district of the Grande Paroisse de Villette.
After the departure of Lausanne's last prince-bishop in 1536, and the lands came under the administration of Bern, and established the district known as the Place General de Villette. It was not until 1601 that a representative of the farming area of Forel was invited to join the district council in Cully. The Bernese occupation did little to alleviate the feudal taxes and the inhabitants ended up paying more taxes and the tithe
s (of cereals, wine, vegetables, hemp, flax, cattle and others).
After the collapse of the ancien régime, Forel from 1798 to 1803 under the Helvetic Republic
was under the administration of the Canton of Léman
and then the Canton of Vaud. In 1798 it became a part of the district of Lavaux. Forel belonged until 1824 to the Greater Municipality of Villette and was also known as Les Monts de Villette in reference to its mountains. In 1822 petitions to the State Council from residents of Epesses, the Monts de Villette and Aran, signed by some 145 people, reflected a showing the strong desire for local autonomy.
In 1824, the State Council accepted the division of the municipality of Villette into the areas Cully and Chenaux (capital, Cully) Riex, Epesses, Grandvaux and Curson (capital, Grandvaux) Villette and Aran (capital , Villette) and Forel, which included Les Monts de Villette.
A Provisional Council of six members was appointed and a meeting took place on 2 August 1824. Jean-François Noverraz, who had previously represented Les Monts of Forel in Cully, was chosen as a delegate to represent Forel and was approved on 11 August 1826 by the State Council. The electoral assembly of the municipality was convened between 13 and 14 November 1826 and the first municipal council composed of citizens (all men aged thirty years and more) met on 14 December 1826. From 1827 the council used the Regamey farm until 1974 to hold municipal council meetings.
(as the crow flies). The scattered settlement community extends to the southeast in the Jorat plateau, north of Lake Geneva basin, in the Vaud Midlands.
Forel (Lavaux) has an area, , of 18.51 square kilometre. Of this area, 11.88 square kilometre is used for agricultural purposes, while 5.1 square kilometre is forested. Of the rest of the land, 1.45 square kilometre is settled (buildings or roads), 5 ha (12.4 acre) is either rivers or lakes and 1 ha (2.5 acre) is unproductive land.
Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 4.2% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.6%. Out of the forested land, 26.3% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.2% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 46.7% is used for growing crops and 16.5% is pastures. All the water in the municipality is flowing water.
The municipality was part of the Lavaux District until it was dissolved on 31 August 2006, and Forel (Lavaux) became part of the new district of Lavaux-Oron.
The municipal area is drained by the Grenet River which forms part of its natural municipal boundary. The central part is the over 690 m (2,263.8 ft) above sea level. To the north lies the town land in the forest area Bois du Grand Jorat (up to 884 m (2,900.3 ft) above sea level), which arises from the Carrouge. In the northeast, includes the territory of Petit Jorat at 730 m (2,395 ft) above sea level. To the west is the gently sloping hillside of Savigny. To the south, the town area extends to the wooded heights of Mont de Gourze at 925 m (3,034.8 ft) above sea level, the highest point on the watershed between the basins of the Rhône
and Rhine.
The municipality consists of the real estate community center Cornes de Cerf (716 m (2,349.1 ft) above sea level) and numerous hamlets and settlements, including Le Pigeon, Le Plan, Le Grenet, Les Chesaudes and La Tuilière, all located on the southeast Jorat plateau , as well as many individual farms. The municipality is surrounded by Puidoux
, Epesses
, Riex
, Cully, Grandvaux
, Villette
, Savigny
, Les Cullayes
, Servion
, Essertes
, Châtillens
and Les Tavernes
.
of the municipal coat of arms
is Gules, a letter F between Antlers all of Argent.
Most of the population speaks French
(1,571 or 92.2%), with German
being second most common (56 or 3.3%) and Portuguese
being third (23 or 1.3%). There are nine people who speak Italian
.
Of the population in the municipality 488 or about 28.6% were born in Forel (Lavaux) and lived there in 2000. There were 655 or 38.4% who were born in the same canton, while 232 or 13.6% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 280 or 16.4% were born outside of Switzerland.
In there were 14 live births to Swiss citizens and 8 births to non-Swiss citizens, and in same time span there were 17 deaths of Swiss citizens. Ignoring immigration and emigration, the population of Swiss citizens decreased by 3 while the foreign population increased by 8. There was 1 Swiss man who emigrated from Switzerland and 1 Swiss woman who immigrated back to Switzerland. At the same time, there were 19 non-Swiss men and 5 non-Swiss women who immigrated from another country to Switzerland. The total Swiss population change in 2008 (from all sources, including moves across municipal borders) was a decrease of 30 and the non-Swiss population increased by 27 people. This represents a population growth rate of -0.2%.
The age distribution, , in Forel (Lavaux) is; 236 children or 12.5% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 221 teenagers or 11.7% are between 10 and 19. Of the adult population, 206 people or 10.9% of the population are between 20 and 29 years old. 291 people or 15.4% are between 30 and 39, 314 people or 16.6% are between 40 and 49, and 239 people or 12.6% are between 50 and 59. The senior population distribution is 209 people or 11.1% of the population are between 60 and 69 years old, 98 people or 5.2% are between 70 and 79, there are 60 people or 3.2% who are between 80 and 89, and there are 16 people or 0.8% who are 90 and older.
, there were 732 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 793 married individuals, 83 widows or widowers and 96 individuals who are divorced.
the average number of residents per living room was 0.61 which is about equal to the cantonal average of 0.61 per room. In this case, a room is defined as space of a housing unit of at least 4 square metre as normal bedrooms, dining rooms, living rooms, kitchens and habitable cellars and attics. About 51.8% of the total households were owner occupied, or in other words did not pay rent (though they may have a mortgage
or a rent-to-own agreement).
, there were 671 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.5 persons per household. There were 179 households that consist of only one person and 58 households with five or more people. Out of a total of 679 households that answered this question, 26.4% were households made up of just one person and there were 8 adults who lived with their parents. Of the rest of the households, there are 193 married couples without children, 242 married couples with children There were 34 single parents with a child or children. There were 15 households that were made up of unrelated people and 8 households that were made up of some sort of institution or another collective housing.
there were 232 single family homes (or 54.1% of the total) out of a total of 429 inhabited buildings. There were 68 multi-family buildings (15.9%), along with 105 multi-purpose buildings that were mostly used for housing (24.5%) and 24 other use buildings (commercial or industrial) that also had some housing (5.6%). Of the single family homes 51 were built before 1919, while 16 were built between 1990 and 2000. The greatest number of single family homes (53) were built between 1971 and 1980. The most multi-family homes (20) were built between 1971 and 1980 and the next most (17) were built before 1919. There were 3 multi-family houses built between 1996 and 2000.
there were 745 apartments in the municipality. The most common apartment size was 4 rooms of which there were 212. There were 38 single room apartments and 233 apartments with five or more rooms. Of these apartments, a total of 658 apartments (88.3% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 64 apartments (8.6%) were seasonally occupied and 23 apartments (3.1%) were empty. , the construction rate of new housing units was 0 new units per 1000 residents. The vacancy rate for the municipality, , was 0.24%.
The historical population is given in the following chart:
Since the 1970s, an industrial park was established in the range of Le Pigeon. Here, companies have developed in the construction industry and information technology, in addition there is also a company that manufactures kitchen appliances. Through the construction of numerous single-family homes in the last decades, the village has developed into a residential community. Many workers though are commuters who work mainly in Lausanne
and in the Vevey
-Montreux
region.
, Forel (Lavaux) had an unemployment rate of 3.3%. , there were 111 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 48 businesses involved in this sector. 247 people were employed in the secondary sector and there were 31 businesses in this sector. 232 people were employed in the tertiary sector, with 55 businesses in this sector. There were 886 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 42.3% of the workforce.
the total number of full-time equivalent
jobs was 512. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 84, of which 80 were in agriculture and 4 were in forestry or lumber production. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 239 of which 110 or (46.0%) were in manufacturing and 129 (54.0%) were in construction. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 189. In the tertiary sector; 80 or 42.3% were in the sale or repair of motor vehicles, 6 or 3.2% were in the movement and storage of goods, 21 or 11.1% were in a hotel or restaurant, 2 or 1.1% were in the information industry, 3 or 1.6% were the insurance or financial industry, 11 or 5.8% were technical professionals or scientists, 9 or 4.8% were in education and 23 or 12.2% were in health care.
, there were 192 workers who commuted into the municipality and 653 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 3.4 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering. Of the working population, 9.7% used public transportation to get to work, and 68.8% used a private car.
the most popular party was the SVP
which received 25.4% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the LPS Party
(15.75%), the FDP
(14.61%) and the SP
(14.17%). In the federal election, a total of 581 votes were cast, and the voter turnout
was 46.6%.
. Of the rest of the population, there were 12 members of an Orthodox church
(or about 0.70% of the population), there were 2 individuals (or about 0.12% of the population) who belonged to the Christian Catholic Church
, and there were 78 individuals (or about 4.58% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There were 3 individuals (or about 0.18% of the population) who were Jewish
, and 21 (or about 1.23% of the population) who were Islam
ic. There were 3 individuals who belonged to another church. 249 (or about 14.61% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic
or atheist
, and 70 individuals (or about 4.11% of the population) did not answer the question.
). Of the 212 who completed tertiary schooling, 50.9% were Swiss men, 31.1% were Swiss women, 8.0% were non-Swiss men and 9.9% were non-Swiss women.
In the 2009/2010 school year there were a total of 217 students in the Forel (Lavaux) school district. In the Vaud cantonal school system, two years of non-obligatory pre-school are provided by the political districts. During the school year, the political district provided pre-school care for a total of 665 children of which 232 children (34.9%) received subsidized pre-school care. The canton's primary school program requires students to attend for four years. There were 136 students in the municipal primary school program. The obligatory lower secondary school program lasts for six years and there were 81 students in those schools.
, there were 46 students in Forel (Lavaux) who came from another municipality, while 150 residents attended schools outside the municipality.
to Vevey
, which is here crossed by the Lausanne - Oron-la-Ville
road. The nearest motorway, inaugurated in 1974, is the A9 road which connects Lausanne to Sion
. Forel is connected through the bus line 65.
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in the Swiss
Switzerland
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canton
Cantons of Switzerland
The 26 cantons of Switzerland are the member states of the federal state of Switzerland. Each canton was a fully sovereign state with its own borders, army and currency from the Treaty of Westphalia until the establishment of the Swiss federal state in 1848...
of Vaud
Vaud
Vaud is one of the 26 cantons of Switzerland and is located in Romandy, the French-speaking southwestern part of the country. The capital is Lausanne. The name of the Canton in Switzerland's other languages are Vaud in Italian , Waadt in German , and Vad in Romansh.-History:Along the lakes,...
, located in the district of Lavaux-Oron.
History
The oldest document mentioning the area around Forel (Lavaux) is dated 1140, and mentions Guy de Maligny, the bishop of LausanneBishop of Lausanne
The Bishop of Lausanne was a Prince-Bishop of the Holy Roman Empire and the Ordinary of the diocese of Lausanne, Switzerland .Bern secularized the bishopric in 1536....
, owning the land with the Lac de Joux Abbey. The document mentioning the forests of Forel (Fores) dates to 1274. In 1300 it was mentioned as Forel.
In 1298, Pierre Garnier Palézieux bought the hamlet of Forel (known today as the "In Forel") and the surrounding forests from Louis I of Savoy. Two years later, the same Baron of Vaud sold the land to the bishop of Lausanne and it became part of the district of the Grande Paroisse de Villette.
After the departure of Lausanne's last prince-bishop in 1536, and the lands came under the administration of Bern, and established the district known as the Place General de Villette. It was not until 1601 that a representative of the farming area of Forel was invited to join the district council in Cully. The Bernese occupation did little to alleviate the feudal taxes and the inhabitants ended up paying more taxes and the tithe
Tithe
A tithe is a one-tenth part of something, paid as a contribution to a religious organization or compulsory tax to government. Today, tithes are normally voluntary and paid in cash, cheques, or stocks, whereas historically tithes were required and paid in kind, such as agricultural products...
s (of cereals, wine, vegetables, hemp, flax, cattle and others).
After the collapse of the ancien régime, Forel from 1798 to 1803 under the Helvetic Republic
Helvetic Republic
In Swiss history, the Helvetic Republic represented an early attempt to impose a central authority over Switzerland, which until then consisted mainly of self-governing cantons united by a loose military alliance, and conquered territories such as Vaud...
was under the administration of the Canton of Léman
Canton of Léman
Léman was the name of a canton of the Helvetic Republic from 1798 to 1803, corresponding to the territory of modern Vaud. As a former subject territory of Bern, Vaud had been independent for only four months in 1798 as the Lemanic Republic before it was incorporated in the centralist Helvetic...
and then the Canton of Vaud. In 1798 it became a part of the district of Lavaux. Forel belonged until 1824 to the Greater Municipality of Villette and was also known as Les Monts de Villette in reference to its mountains. In 1822 petitions to the State Council from residents of Epesses, the Monts de Villette and Aran, signed by some 145 people, reflected a showing the strong desire for local autonomy.
In 1824, the State Council accepted the division of the municipality of Villette into the areas Cully and Chenaux (capital, Cully) Riex, Epesses, Grandvaux and Curson (capital, Grandvaux) Villette and Aran (capital , Villette) and Forel, which included Les Monts de Villette.
A Provisional Council of six members was appointed and a meeting took place on 2 August 1824. Jean-François Noverraz, who had previously represented Les Monts of Forel in Cully, was chosen as a delegate to represent Forel and was approved on 11 August 1826 by the State Council. The electoral assembly of the municipality was convened between 13 and 14 November 1826 and the first municipal council composed of citizens (all men aged thirty years and more) met on 14 December 1826. From 1827 the council used the Regamey farm until 1974 to hold municipal council meetings.
Geography
Forel is located at 716 m (2,349.1 ft) above sea level, 11 km (7 mi) east of the capital of the canton of LausanneLausanne
Lausanne is a city in Romandy, the French-speaking part of Switzerland, and is the capital of the canton of Vaud. The seat of the district of Lausanne, the city is situated on the shores of Lake Geneva . It faces the French town of Évian-les-Bains, with the Jura mountains to its north-west...
(as the crow flies). The scattered settlement community extends to the southeast in the Jorat plateau, north of Lake Geneva basin, in the Vaud Midlands.
Forel (Lavaux) has an area, , of 18.51 square kilometre. Of this area, 11.88 square kilometre is used for agricultural purposes, while 5.1 square kilometre is forested. Of the rest of the land, 1.45 square kilometre is settled (buildings or roads), 5 ha (12.4 acre) is either rivers or lakes and 1 ha (2.5 acre) is unproductive land.
Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 4.2% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.6%. Out of the forested land, 26.3% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.2% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 46.7% is used for growing crops and 16.5% is pastures. All the water in the municipality is flowing water.
The municipality was part of the Lavaux District until it was dissolved on 31 August 2006, and Forel (Lavaux) became part of the new district of Lavaux-Oron.
The municipal area is drained by the Grenet River which forms part of its natural municipal boundary. The central part is the over 690 m (2,263.8 ft) above sea level. To the north lies the town land in the forest area Bois du Grand Jorat (up to 884 m (2,900.3 ft) above sea level), which arises from the Carrouge. In the northeast, includes the territory of Petit Jorat at 730 m (2,395 ft) above sea level. To the west is the gently sloping hillside of Savigny. To the south, the town area extends to the wooded heights of Mont de Gourze at 925 m (3,034.8 ft) above sea level, the highest point on the watershed between the basins of the Rhône
Rhône
Rhone can refer to:* Rhone, one of the major rivers of Europe, running through Switzerland and France* Rhône Glacier, the source of the Rhone River and one of the primary contributors to Lake Geneva in the far eastern end of the canton of Valais in Switzerland...
and Rhine.
The municipality consists of the real estate community center Cornes de Cerf (716 m (2,349.1 ft) above sea level) and numerous hamlets and settlements, including Le Pigeon, Le Plan, Le Grenet, Les Chesaudes and La Tuilière, all located on the southeast Jorat plateau , as well as many individual farms. The municipality is surrounded by Puidoux
Puidoux
Puidoux is a municipality in Switzerland in the canton of Vaud, located in the district of Lavaux-Oron.-History:Puidoux is first mentioned in 1134 as Puidos. It was part of Saint-Saphorin until 1810 when it became an independent municipality....
, Epesses
Epesses
Epesses is a former municipality in the Swiss canton of Vaud, located in the district of Lavaux-Oron on Lake Geneva. It is noted for its wine production....
, Riex
Riex
Riex is a former municipality in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland, located in the district of Lavaux-Oron.The municipalities of Cully, Epesses, Grandvaux, Riex and Villette merged on 1 July 2011 into the new municipality of Bourg-en-Lavaux.-Geography:Riex has an area, , of...
, Cully, Grandvaux
Grandvaux
Grandvaux is a former municipality in the Swiss canton of Vaud, located in the district of Lavaux-Oron. The municipalities of Cully, Epesses, Grandvaux, Riex and Villette merged on 1 July 2011 into the new municipality of Bourg-en-Lavaux.-History:...
, Villette
Villette
-Places:Villette or La Villette is the name or part of the name of several places in Europe:-France:*Villette, in the Meurthe-et-Moselle département*Villette, in the Yvelines département*Villette-d'Anthon, in the Isère département...
, Savigny
Savigny
-In France:*Savigny, Manche, in the Manche département*Savigny, Haute-Marne, in the Haute-Marne département*Savigny, Rhône, in the Rhône département*Savigny, Haute-Savoie, in the Haute-Savoie département...
, Les Cullayes
Les Cullayes
Les Cullayes is a municipality in the district of Lavaux-Oron in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.-Geography:Les Cullayes has an area, , of . Of this area, or 71.7% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 9.9% is forested...
, Servion
Servion
Servion is a municipality in the district of Lavaux-Oron in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.-Geography:Servion has an area, , of . Of this area, or 60.3% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 23.5% is forested...
, Essertes
Essertes
Essertes is a municipality in the district of Lavaux-Oron in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.-History:Essertes is first mentioned in 1154 as terram de Sartis. In 1271 it was mentioned as de Essertes.-Geography:...
, Châtillens
Châtillens
Châtillens is a municipality in the district of Lavaux-Oron in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.-Geography:Châtillens has an area, , of . Of this area, or 61.1% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 27.5% is forested...
and Les Tavernes
Les Tavernes
Les Tavernes is a municipality in the district of Lavaux-Oron in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.-Geography:Les Tavernes has an area, , of . Of this area, or 72.1% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 22.3% is forested...
.
Coat of arms
The blazonBlazon
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of the municipal coat of arms
Coat of arms
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is Gules, a letter F between Antlers all of Argent.
Demographics
Forel (Lavaux) has a population of . , 15.2% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1999–2009) the population has changed at a rate of 13.2%. It has changed at a rate of 8.7% due to migration and at a rate of 5.3% due to births and deaths.Most of the population speaks French
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
(1,571 or 92.2%), with German
German language
German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
being second most common (56 or 3.3%) and Portuguese
Portuguese language
Portuguese is a Romance language that arose in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia, nowadays Galicia and Northern Portugal. The southern part of the Kingdom of Galicia became independent as the County of Portugal in 1095...
being third (23 or 1.3%). There are nine people who speak Italian
Italian language
Italian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia...
.
Of the population in the municipality 488 or about 28.6% were born in Forel (Lavaux) and lived there in 2000. There were 655 or 38.4% who were born in the same canton, while 232 or 13.6% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 280 or 16.4% were born outside of Switzerland.
In there were 14 live births to Swiss citizens and 8 births to non-Swiss citizens, and in same time span there were 17 deaths of Swiss citizens. Ignoring immigration and emigration, the population of Swiss citizens decreased by 3 while the foreign population increased by 8. There was 1 Swiss man who emigrated from Switzerland and 1 Swiss woman who immigrated back to Switzerland. At the same time, there were 19 non-Swiss men and 5 non-Swiss women who immigrated from another country to Switzerland. The total Swiss population change in 2008 (from all sources, including moves across municipal borders) was a decrease of 30 and the non-Swiss population increased by 27 people. This represents a population growth rate of -0.2%.
The age distribution, , in Forel (Lavaux) is; 236 children or 12.5% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 221 teenagers or 11.7% are between 10 and 19. Of the adult population, 206 people or 10.9% of the population are between 20 and 29 years old. 291 people or 15.4% are between 30 and 39, 314 people or 16.6% are between 40 and 49, and 239 people or 12.6% are between 50 and 59. The senior population distribution is 209 people or 11.1% of the population are between 60 and 69 years old, 98 people or 5.2% are between 70 and 79, there are 60 people or 3.2% who are between 80 and 89, and there are 16 people or 0.8% who are 90 and older.
, there were 732 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 793 married individuals, 83 widows or widowers and 96 individuals who are divorced.
the average number of residents per living room was 0.61 which is about equal to the cantonal average of 0.61 per room. In this case, a room is defined as space of a housing unit of at least 4 square metre as normal bedrooms, dining rooms, living rooms, kitchens and habitable cellars and attics. About 51.8% of the total households were owner occupied, or in other words did not pay rent (though they may have a mortgage
Mortgage loan
A mortgage loan is a loan secured by real property through the use of a mortgage note which evidences the existence of the loan and the encumbrance of that realty through the granting of a mortgage which secures the loan...
or a rent-to-own agreement).
, there were 671 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.5 persons per household. There were 179 households that consist of only one person and 58 households with five or more people. Out of a total of 679 households that answered this question, 26.4% were households made up of just one person and there were 8 adults who lived with their parents. Of the rest of the households, there are 193 married couples without children, 242 married couples with children There were 34 single parents with a child or children. There were 15 households that were made up of unrelated people and 8 households that were made up of some sort of institution or another collective housing.
there were 232 single family homes (or 54.1% of the total) out of a total of 429 inhabited buildings. There were 68 multi-family buildings (15.9%), along with 105 multi-purpose buildings that were mostly used for housing (24.5%) and 24 other use buildings (commercial or industrial) that also had some housing (5.6%). Of the single family homes 51 were built before 1919, while 16 were built between 1990 and 2000. The greatest number of single family homes (53) were built between 1971 and 1980. The most multi-family homes (20) were built between 1971 and 1980 and the next most (17) were built before 1919. There were 3 multi-family houses built between 1996 and 2000.
there were 745 apartments in the municipality. The most common apartment size was 4 rooms of which there were 212. There were 38 single room apartments and 233 apartments with five or more rooms. Of these apartments, a total of 658 apartments (88.3% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 64 apartments (8.6%) were seasonally occupied and 23 apartments (3.1%) were empty. , the construction rate of new housing units was 0 new units per 1000 residents. The vacancy rate for the municipality, , was 0.24%.
The historical population is given in the following chart:
Economy
Forel was until the second half of the 20th century, a primarily agricultural village. Agriculture, dairy farming and animal husbandry, and forestry is an important factor in the employment structure of the population. All three industries currently employ about 33% of the workforce.Since the 1970s, an industrial park was established in the range of Le Pigeon. Here, companies have developed in the construction industry and information technology, in addition there is also a company that manufactures kitchen appliances. Through the construction of numerous single-family homes in the last decades, the village has developed into a residential community. Many workers though are commuters who work mainly in Lausanne
Lausanne
Lausanne is a city in Romandy, the French-speaking part of Switzerland, and is the capital of the canton of Vaud. The seat of the district of Lausanne, the city is situated on the shores of Lake Geneva . It faces the French town of Évian-les-Bains, with the Jura mountains to its north-west...
and in the Vevey
Vevey
Vevey is a town in Switzerland in the canton Vaud, on the north shore of Lake Geneva, near Lausanne.It was the seat of the district of the same name until 2006, and is now part of the Riviera-Pays-d'Enhaut District...
-Montreux
Montreux
Montreux is a municipality in the district of Riviera-Pays-d'Enhaut in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.It is located on Lake Geneva at the foot of the Alps and has a population, , of and nearly 90,000 in the agglomeration.- History :...
region.
, Forel (Lavaux) had an unemployment rate of 3.3%. , there were 111 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 48 businesses involved in this sector. 247 people were employed in the secondary sector and there were 31 businesses in this sector. 232 people were employed in the tertiary sector, with 55 businesses in this sector. There were 886 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 42.3% of the workforce.
the total number of full-time equivalent
Full-time equivalent
Full-time equivalent , is a unit to measure employed persons or students in a way that makes them comparable although they may work or study a different number of hours per week. FTE is often used to measure a worker's involvement in a project, or to track cost reductions in an organization...
jobs was 512. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 84, of which 80 were in agriculture and 4 were in forestry or lumber production. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 239 of which 110 or (46.0%) were in manufacturing and 129 (54.0%) were in construction. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 189. In the tertiary sector; 80 or 42.3% were in the sale or repair of motor vehicles, 6 or 3.2% were in the movement and storage of goods, 21 or 11.1% were in a hotel or restaurant, 2 or 1.1% were in the information industry, 3 or 1.6% were the insurance or financial industry, 11 or 5.8% were technical professionals or scientists, 9 or 4.8% were in education and 23 or 12.2% were in health care.
, there were 192 workers who commuted into the municipality and 653 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 3.4 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering. Of the working population, 9.7% used public transportation to get to work, and 68.8% used a private car.
Politics
In the 2007 federal electionSwiss federal election, 2007
Elections to the Swiss Federal Assembly, the federal parliament of Switzerland, were held on Sunday, 21 October 2007. In a few cantons, a second round of the elections to the Council of States was held on 11 November, 18 November, and 25 November 2007...
the most popular party was the SVP
Swiss People's Party
The Swiss People's Party , also known as the Democratic Union of the Centre , is a conservative political party in Switzerland. Chaired by Toni Brunner, but spearheaded by Christoph Blocher, the party is the largest party in the Federal Assembly, with 58 members of the National Council and 6 of...
which received 25.4% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the LPS Party
Liberal Party of Switzerland
The Liberal Party of Switzerland was a party with economically liberal policies. It was known as a party of the upper class. On 1 January 2009 it merged with the larger Free Democratic Party to establish FDP.The Liberals....
(15.75%), the FDP
FDP.The Liberals
FDP.The Liberals is a classical liberal political party in Switzerland. It is the joint-largest party in the Federal Council, third-largest party in the National Council, and second-largest in the Council of States....
(14.61%) and the SP
Social Democratic Party of Switzerland
The Social Democratic Party of Switzerland is the largest centre-left political party in Switzerland....
(14.17%). In the federal election, a total of 581 votes were cast, and the voter turnout
Voter turnout
Voter turnout is the percentage of eligible voters who cast a ballot in an election . After increasing for many decades, there has been a trend of decreasing voter turnout in most established democracies since the 1960s...
was 46.6%.
Religion
From the , 376 or 22.1% were Roman Catholic, while 927 or 54.4% belonged to the Swiss Reformed ChurchSwiss Reformed Church
The Reformed branch of Protestantism in Switzerland was started in Zürich by Huldrych Zwingli and spread within a few years to Basel , Bern , St...
. Of the rest of the population, there were 12 members of an Orthodox church
Orthodox Christianity
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(or about 0.70% of the population), there were 2 individuals (or about 0.12% of the population) who belonged to the Christian Catholic Church
Christian Catholic Church of Switzerland
The Christian Catholic Church of Switzerland is the Swiss member church of the Union of Utrecht, also known as Old Catholic Church, originally founded by the jansenists, with a later influx of discontented Catholics following their disappointment with the First Vatican Council. It has 14,000...
, and there were 78 individuals (or about 4.58% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There were 3 individuals (or about 0.18% of the population) who were Jewish
Judaism
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, and 21 (or about 1.23% of the population) who were Islam
Islam
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ic. There were 3 individuals who belonged to another church. 249 (or about 14.61% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic
Agnosticism
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or atheist
Atheism
Atheism is, in a broad sense, the rejection of belief in the existence of deities. In a narrower sense, atheism is specifically the position that there are no deities...
, and 70 individuals (or about 4.11% of the population) did not answer the question.
Education
In Forel (Lavaux) about 635 or (37.3%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 212 or (12.4%) have completed additional higher education (either university or a FachhochschuleFachhochschule
A Fachhochschule or University of Applied Sciences is a German type of tertiary education institution, sometimes specialized in certain topical areas . Fachhochschulen were founded in Germany and later adopted by Austria, Liechtenstein, Switzerland and Greece...
). Of the 212 who completed tertiary schooling, 50.9% were Swiss men, 31.1% were Swiss women, 8.0% were non-Swiss men and 9.9% were non-Swiss women.
In the 2009/2010 school year there were a total of 217 students in the Forel (Lavaux) school district. In the Vaud cantonal school system, two years of non-obligatory pre-school are provided by the political districts. During the school year, the political district provided pre-school care for a total of 665 children of which 232 children (34.9%) received subsidized pre-school care. The canton's primary school program requires students to attend for four years. There were 136 students in the municipal primary school program. The obligatory lower secondary school program lasts for six years and there were 81 students in those schools.
, there were 46 students in Forel (Lavaux) who came from another municipality, while 150 residents attended schools outside the municipality.
Transport
The community is well developed. It lies on the main road from MoudonMoudon
Moudon is a municipality in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. It was the seat of the district of Moudon and is now in the Broye-Vully district.-History:...
to Vevey
Vevey
Vevey is a town in Switzerland in the canton Vaud, on the north shore of Lake Geneva, near Lausanne.It was the seat of the district of the same name until 2006, and is now part of the Riviera-Pays-d'Enhaut District...
, which is here crossed by the Lausanne - Oron-la-Ville
Oron-la-Ville
Oron-la-Ville is a municipality in the district of Lavaux-Oron in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.-History:Oron-la-Ville is first mentioned about 280 as Uromago. In 1018 it was mentioned as Auronum.-Geography:...
road. The nearest motorway, inaugurated in 1974, is the A9 road which connects Lausanne to Sion
Sion, Switzerland
Sion is the capital of the Swiss canton of Valais. it had a population of .Landmarks include the Basilique de Valère and Château de Tourbillon. Sion has an airfield for civilian and military use, which, because of its location in a valley, causes a reasonable amount of noise pollution. FC Sion...
. Forel is connected through the bus line 65.