Sédeilles

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Sédeilles
Sédeilles coat of arms
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Canton of VaudCanton of Vaud Vaud (VD)
District : Broye-Vully
Municipality : Villarzeli2
Postal code : 1554
former BFS no. : 5825
Coordinates : 561 347  /  177 709 coordinates: 46 ° 44 '58 "  N , 6 ° 55' 58"  O ; CH1903:  five hundred sixty-one thousand three hundred forty-seven  /  177 709
Height : 688  m above sea level M.
Area : 2.47  km²
Residents: 143 (December 31, 2005)
Population density : 58 inhabitants per km²
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Sédeilles (Switzerland)
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Parish before the merger on June 30, 2006

Sédeilles ([ sɛdɛj ] or [ sədɛj ], in the local dialect: [ a səˈdaːjɛ ]) was a municipality in the Granges-près-Marnand district of the Broye-Vully district in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland until June 30, 2006 . On July 1, 2006, Sédeilles was merged with Villarzel and Rossens to form the new municipality of Villarzel .

geography

Sédeilles is 688  m above sea level. M. , eight kilometers south of the district capital Payerne (linear distance ). The clustered village extends over a leveled area in the Molasse hill country east of the Broyetal , in the eastern Vaud Central Plateau .

The area of ​​the 2.5 km² large former municipal area comprised a section of the hill country between the central Broyetal and the Glânetal . The northern and western borders of the area were formed by two spring valleys cut deep into the molasse layers of the brook which flows into the Broye at Marnand . To the south, the communal soil extended over the leveling area of ​​Sédeilles to the wooded heights in the headwaters of the Arbogne and reached the edge of the Forêt de Farzin at 798  m above sea level. M. its highest point. In 1997, 5% of the former municipal area was accounted for by settlements, 26% for forests and woodlands and 69% for agriculture.

Sédeilles includes the Champs Paccot estate ( 694  m above sea level ) south of the village and several individual farms. Neighboring communities of Sédeilles were Villars-Bramard , Rossens and Villarzel in the canton of Vaud and Châtonnaye , La Folliaz , Villaz-Saint-Pierre and Romont in the canton of Friborg .

population

With 143 inhabitants (at the end of 2005), Sédeilles was one of the smallest municipalities in the canton of Vaud. 91.7% of the residents are French-speaking, 5.6% German-speaking and 1.4% Portuguese-speaking (as of 2000). The population of Sédeilles was 214 in 1900. After the population had decreased to 120 by 1990 due to strong emigration, a slight increase has been recorded since then.

economy

Until the second half of the 20th century, Sédeilles was predominantly an agricultural village. Even today, arable farming and cattle breeding play an important role in the income structure of the population. Some other jobs are available in local small businesses and in the service sector.

traffic

Sédeilles has good transport links. It is on the connecting road from Payerne to Romont . Sédeilles is connected to the public transport network through the Postbus courses that run on the Romont-Payerne and Romont-Avry routes.

history

Farm in Sédeilles

The area of ​​Sédeilles was inhabited very early, as evidenced by the remains of a Roman villa. The oldest evidence for the place name appears in the forms Sideles (1190?) And Sedilles (1336). The origin of the name is not clear.

Since the Middle Ages , Sédeilles was part of the Villarzel dominion, which belonged to the Bishop of Lausanne. With the conquest of Vaud by Bern in 1536, the village came under the administration of the Bailiwick of Moudon . After the collapse of the Ancien Régime , Sédeilles belonged to the canton of Léman from 1798 to 1803 during the Helvetic Republic, which then became part of the canton of Vaud when the mediation constitution came into force . In 1798 it was assigned to the Payerne district.

After the voters of Sédeilles had voted with a large majority in favor of the municipality merger, the merger of Sédeilles with Rossens (VD) and Villarzel to form the new enlarged municipality of Villarzel took effect on July 1, 2006 .

Sédeilles does not have its own church, it belongs to the parish of Villarzel .

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  1. ↑ a b Nicolas Pépin / Andres Kristol, Sédeilles VD (Payerne) in: Dictionnaire toponymique des communes suisses - Lexicon of Swiss community names - Dizionario toponomastico dei comuni svizzeri (DTS | LSG) , Center de dialectologie, Université de Neuchâtel, Verlag Huber, Frauenfeld / Stuttgart / Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-7193-1308-5 and Éditions Payot, Lausanne 2005, ISBN 2-601-03336-3 , p. 820.