VEVEY [

See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German Vivis]  , a small town in the Swiss canton of Vaud and near the eastern extremity of the Lake of Geneva . It is by rail 12 m . S.E. of Lausanne or 31 M . N.W. of the Vernex-Montreux railway station, while it is well served by steamers plying over the Lake of Geneva . In 'goo it had a population of 11,781, of whom 8878 were French-speaking, while there were 8277 Protestants to 3424 Romanists and 56 Jews . It is the second town in point of population in the canton, coming next after Lausanne, though inferior to the " agglomeration " known as Montreux . It stands at the mouth of the Veveyse and commands fine views of the snowy mountains seen over the glassy surface of the lake . The whole of the surrounding country is covered with vineyards, which (with the entertainment of foreign visitors) occupy the inhabitants . Every twenty years or so (last in 1889 and 1905) the Fete des Vignerons is held here by an ancient gild of vinedressers, and attracts much attention . Besides a railway line that joins the Montreux-Bernese Oberland line at Chamby (5 M. from Vevey and It m_ below Les Avants) there is a funicular railway from Vevey up the Mont Merin (3557 ft.) to the north-west . Vevey was a Roman settlement [Viviscus] and later formed part of the barony of Vaud, that was held by the counts and dukes of Savoy till 1536, when it was conquered by Bern . In 1798 it was freed from Bernese rule and became part of the canton du Leman (renamed canton de Vaud in 1803) of the Helvetic Republic .

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