Riex
village and former municipality in Bourg-en-Lavaux in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland
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 (Lavaux) merged on 1 July 2011 into the new municipality of Bourg-en-Lavaux.
History
Riex is first mentioned in 1184 as Ruez.
Geography
Riex has an area, as of 2009, of 1.37 square kilometres (0.53 mi2). Of this area, 1.04 km2 (0.40 mi2) or 75.9% is used for agricultural purposes, while 0.13 km2 (0.050 mi2) or 9.5% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 0.15 km2 (37 acres) or 10.9% is settled (buildings or roads) and 0.01 km2 (2.5 acres) or 0.7% is unproductive land.
Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 5.1% and transportation infrastructure made up 5.8%. Out of the forested land, 5.8% of the total land area is heavily forested and 3.6% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 6.6% is used for growing crops and 35.0% is pastures, while 34.3% is used for orchards or vine crops.
The municipality was part of the Lavaux District until it was dissolved on 31 August 2006, and Riex became part of the new district of Lavaux-Oron.
“Riex” enters the record as village and former municipality in Bourg-en-Lavaux in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Riex, village and former can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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“Riex” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Riex, village and former provides the most credible route into that argument.
Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 14, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q520036. VIAF identifies the subject as 234791919. Authority coordinates are 46.493, 6.736. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2011, 1184, 2009 and 2006.
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This entry incorporates text from “Riex” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.