Montreux. Nach einer Photographie von J.Jullien in Genf.

Title

Montreux. Nach einer Photographie von J.Jullien in Genf.

Description

View shows the town of Montreux on Lake Geneva.

c. 1894

Artist

Anonymus

Historical Description

In the Middle Ages, the territory of Montreux belonged first to the Abbey of Saint-Maurice in Valais, later it came to the Bishop of Sion, who founded the large parish of Montreux. The name of the town originally comes from the Latin word monasterium (monastery). With the conquest of Vaud by Bern in 1536, both parts came under the administration of the Bailiwick of Chillon, which was renamed the Bailiwick of Vevey in 1735. After the collapse of the Ancien Régime, Le Châtelard, Les Planches and Veytaux belonged to the Canton of Léman from 1798 to 1803 during the Helvetic period, which subsequently merged into the Canton of Vaud with the enactment of the Mediation Constitution. In 1798, the communes were assigned to the district of Vevey. Already in the middle of the 18th century, Montreux gained a certain notoriety due to the stay of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and later of Lord Byron. The real economic boom began after 1850 with improved transport links, the construction of numerous hotels, boarding houses and sanatoriums. Already since the 19th century, the present municipal area of Montreux and Veytaux were administered by a central authority. For this district council, the communes of Le Châtelard provided four deputies, Les Planches two and Veytaux one. The communes themselves, however, continued to represent politically independent entities. The peninsula of Montreux was thus divided in two, as the border ran exactly along the Baye de Montreux stream.