Chiboz
Origin of the name Chiboz
The name Chiboz has no known explanation. The federal maps write « Chibo » and distinguish Chibo d'en Bas and Chibo d'en Haut.
Founding of Chiboz
Chiboz is a mayen of the municipality of Fully, at about 1'350 m, set against the flank of the Grand Chavalard. When it was first settled is not known. Its inhabitants grew cereals which they ground at the local mill, fed by a bisse. The mayen is inhabited all year round, but its steep access roads are hard to clear of snow, and avalanches make access difficult in winter. Chiboz also has a chapel.[1][2][3][4][5]
History of Chiboz
1739. Date of the old house of the village, the home of Rachel and Emile Ançay.[3]
1945. Rachel Ançay is the first woman to « racler », that is, to serve raclette, in the family farmhouse that would become the oldest restaurant in Fully.[3][4]
1950s. The Chiboz mill is destroyed by an avalanche.[2]
1969. On 15 August Michel Ançay opens the Relais des Chasseurs, set up in the former goat stable.[3]
1986. Extension of the Relais des Chasseurs (dining room, carnotzet, terrace).[3]
1990s. The mill is rebuilt, some forty years after its destruction.[2]
2004. An association brings the mill back into use. The grain milled there is used for bread baked in the communal oven of La Fontaine.[2]
2012. The third generation of the Ançay family takes over the Relais des Chasseurs.[3]
Historic sites in Chiboz
Chiboz mill. Mill at about 1'300 m, fed by a bisse, which was used to grind the cereals grown by the inhabitants. Destroyed by an avalanche in the 1950s, rebuilt forty years later and brought back into use in 2004 by an association, it regularly hosts baking days.[2]
Relais des Chasseurs. Restaurant opened in 1969 in a former farm of the village, whose old house dates from 1739. It has been run by the same family for three generations.[3]
Chapel. The village has a chapel, listed among the hamlet chapels of Fully.[1]
Sources
- Dictionnaire historique de la Suisse, « Fully » (Benjamin Roduit, version du 14.06.2007)
- Fully Tourisme, brochure « Bienvenue à Fully »
- Relais des Chasseurs, Chiboz, « À propos de nous »
- Martine Bernier, « Chiboz : l'âme d'un lieu », Ecriplume (24.09.2012)
- notreHistoire.ch, « Chiboz d'en-haut » (2011)
- Office fédéral de la statistique (OFS), STATPOP, chiffres provisoires au 31.12.2025, via citypopulation.de
- geo.admin.ch, recherche de lieux (coordonnées)
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