Tannay is a municipality in the district of Nyon in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.
History
Tannay may have been founded before the town of Coppet, which was first mentioned in 1294. However, it is first mentioned in 1390 as Taney. During the Middle Ages, it was part of the barony of Coppet. In 1536 the region became part of the Canton of Bern and the village was part of the Vogtei of Nyon, with the Baron of Coppet retaining power over the villages surrounding Coppet. Tannay Castle was built in 1649. In the 17th century, French Huguenots from the Pays de Gex region fled to Tannay to escape persecution. The descendants of one of these refugees, Jean Delor, founded a successful watch factory in the 19th century. In 1858 a rail station on the Geneva-Lausanne line opened in Tannay. However, until about 1950, it was primarily a rural, farming village. By the beginning of the 21st century it had transformed into a bedroom community of Geneva.
Geography
Tannay has an area, (as of the 2004/09 survey) of . Of this area, about 47.0% is used for agricultural purposes, while 13.8% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 39.2% is settled (buildings or roads). In the 2013/18 survey a total of or about 31.5% of the total area was covered with buildings, an increase of over the 1980 amount. Recreational space makes up about 0.56% of the total area.
Of the agricultural land, is used for orchards and vineyards and is fields and grasslands. Since 1980 the amount of agricultural land has decreased by . Over the same time period the amount of forested land has decreased by . Rivers and lakes cover in the municipality.
The municipality was part of the old Nyon District until it was dissolved on 31 August 2006, and Tannay became part of the new district of Nyon.
The municipality is located on a terrace overlooking Lake Geneva, between Geneva-Saint-Cergue and Geneva-Lausanne roads.
Coat of arms
The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Per fess: 1. Azure, three Bars wavy Argent; 2. Argent, an Oak Tree Vert fructed Or issuant from a Coupeaux Sable.
Demographics
Tannay has a population (as of ) of . , 38.3% of the population are resident foreign nationals. In 2015 a small minority (105 or 6.6% of the population) was born in the United Kingdom. Over the last 7 years (2010-2017) the population has changed at a rate of 4.38%. The birth rate in the municipality, in 2017, was 3.8, while the death rate was 5.7 per thousand residents.
, children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 27.3% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) are 55.6% of the population and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 17.1%. In 2015 there were 682 single residents, 788 people who were married or in a civil partnership, 43 widows or widowers and 83 divorced residents.
In 2017 there were 562 private households in Tannay with an average household size of 2.82 persons. In 2015 about 87.3% of all buildings in the municipality were single family homes, which is much greater than the percentage in the canton (55.9%) and much greater than the percentage nationally (57.4%). Of the 369 inhabited buildings in the municipality, in 2000, about 83.2% were single family homes and 12.5% were multiple family buildings. Additionally, about 6.8% of the buildings were built before 1919, while 10.6% were built between 1991 and 2000. In 2016 the rate of construction of new housing units per 1000 residents was 0.63. The vacancy rate for the municipality, , was 2.23%.
Tannay has a population () of . , 37.5% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of 22.5%. It has changed at a rate of 18.4% due to migration and at a rate of 4.8% due to births and deaths.
Most of the population () speaks French (867 or 70.7%), with German being second most common (123 or 10.0%) and English being third (112 or 9.1%). There are 25 people who speak Italian.
The historical population is given in the following chart:
Politics
In the 2015 federal election the most popular party was the FDP with 38.7% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SVP (20.4%), the SP (10.2%) and the Green Party (8.0%). In the federal election, a total of 390 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 50.2%. The 2015 election saw a large change in the voting when compared to 2011. The percentage of the vote received by the FDP increased sharply from 20.3% in 2011 to 38.7% in 2015