Sarzens

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Sarzens
Sarzens coat of arms
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Canton of VaudCanton of Vaud Vaud (VD)
District : Broye-Vully
Municipality : Lucensi2
Postal code : 1683
former BFS no. : 5686
Coordinates : 554 922  /  170188 coordinates: 46 ° 40 '53 "  N , 6 ° 50' 58"  O ; CH1903:  five hundred fifty-four thousand nine hundred and twenty-two  /  170188
Height : 719  m above sea level M.
Area : 1.45  km²
Residents: 80 (December 31, 2015)
Population density : 55 inhabitants per km²
Website: www.lucens.ch
Sarzens

Sarzens

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Parish before the merger on January 1, 2017

Until December 31, 2016, Sarzens was a municipality in the Broye-Vully district of the canton of Vaud in Switzerland . On January 1, 2017, Sarzens merged with the former municipalities of Brenles , Chesalles-sur-Moudon , Cremin and Forel-sur-Lucens to form the new large municipality of Lucens .

geography

Sarzens is 719  m above sea level. M. , 17 kilometers (as the crow flies) southwest of the district capital Payerne . The small village extends on a sloped terrain to the north summit between the Broye Valley and the valley of the Ruisseau des Vaux , in the Eastern Vaud Plateau .

The area of ​​the 1.5 km² municipal area covers a section of the Molasse Heights between the middle Broye and the upper reaches of the Glâne . The small community soil is limited to the slope of Sarzens and reaches above the village at the height of Grands Champs at 765  m above sea level. M. the highest point. The eastern border runs along the Ruisseau des Vaux brook cut into the molasse layers . In 1997, 7% of the municipal area was accounted for by settlements, 16% for forests and trees and 77% for agriculture.

Sarzens' neighboring municipalities are Lovatens , Brenles , Chesalles-sur-Moudon and Curtilles .

population

With 80 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2015), Sarzens was one of the smallest communities in the canton of Vaud. 95.0% of the residents are French-speaking, 3.3% Portuguese-speaking and 1.7% German-speaking (as of 2000). The population of Sarzens was still 111 in 1900. After that, a decrease of more than 50% to 52 inhabitants was recorded by 1980 due to strong emigration; since then the population has remained stable.

economy

Until the second half of the 20th century, Sarzens was predominantly an agricultural village. Even today, arable farming , fruit growing and cattle breeding play an important role in the income structure of the population. Outside the primary sector there are no jobs in the village. In the last few decades the village has also developed into a residential community. That is why most of the other workers work outside the village.

traffic

The community is located off the major thoroughfares on a connecting road from Lucens to Siviriez . Sarzens is connected to public transport through a PostBus course that runs from Moudon to Romont .

history

The village was first mentioned in documents in 1261 under the name Sarsens . The origin of the place name is unclear. The name could go back to the Burgundian personal name Sarigîs or it could be related to the Saracens .

In the Middle Ages , Sarzens belonged to the Bishop of Lausanne and came under the influence of the Dukes of Savoy in the first half of the 15th century. With the conquest of Vaud by Bern in 1536, the village came under the administration of the Moudon Bailiwick . After the collapse of the Ancien Régime , Sarzens 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 Moudon district. Numerous houses fell victim to a village fire in 1846.

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