Sassel

State :

Switzerland

Canton :

Vaud (VD)

District :

Broye-Vully

Municipality :

Valbroye

Postal code :

1534

former BFS no. :

5824

Coordinates :

555 574 / 180714 coordinates: 46 ° 46 '34 " N , 6 ° 51' 25" O ; CH1903: five hundred fifty-five thousand five hundred seventy-four / 180714

Height :

634 m above sea level M.

Area :

3.35 km²

Residents:

149 (December 31, 2010)

Population density :

44 inhabitants per km²

map

Parish before the merger on June 30, 2011

Until the merger to form Valbroye on July 1, 2011, Sassel was a municipality in the Broye-Vully district of the canton of Vaud in Switzerland .

geography

Sassel lies at 634 m above sea level. M. , eight kilometers southwest of the district capital Payerne (air line). The farming village extends from a panoramic location on a high plateau west of the central Broye valley , in the Molasse hill country of the northern Vaud Central Plateau .

The area of the 3.4 km² former municipal area covers a section of the hill country between Lake Neuchâtel and the Broyetal . The central part of the area is occupied by the Sassel plateau. To the west, the municipality extended into the forest Grand Bois , in which 756 m above sea level. M. the highest point of Sassel is reached. The ridge forms the watershed between the Petite Glâne in the west and the Broyetal in the east. To the southeast, the area extends to the high plateau of Grands Champs ( 560 m above sea level ), one level lower than Sassel, and in a narrow tip to the south to the Lembe , a left tributary of the Broye. In 1997, 4% of the municipal area was accounted for by settlements, 28% for forests and woodlands and 68% for agriculture.

Several individual farms belonged to the municipality of Sassel. Neighboring communities of Sassel were Combremont-le-Grand and Granges-près-Marnand in the canton of Vaud and Nuvilly , Les Montets , Ménières and Cheiry in the canton of Friborg .

population

With 149 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2010) Sassel was one of the smallest communities in the canton of Vaud. 93.9% of the residents are French-speaking, 4.7% German-speaking and 1.4% Italian-speaking (as of 2000). The population of Sassel was 317 in 1900. After the population had decreased by more than 50% to 147 people by 1970 due to strong emigration, the number of inhabitants has remained stable since then.

economy

Until the second half of the 20th century, Sassel was a village dominated by agriculture . 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. The Asile Duc retirement and nursing home has been located in Sassel since 1930. In the last few decades the village has also developed into a residential community. Some workers are commuters who work mainly in Payerne.

traffic

Sassel is located away from the larger thoroughfares on a connecting road from Payerne to Combremont-le-Grand . Sassel is connected to the public transport network by a Postbus course that runs from Payerne to Combremont-le-Petit .

history

The first written mention of the place took place in 1163 under the name Saselz . Later the names Sasel (1166), Sases (1177), Sassez (1215), Sasses (1226), Saisel (1228), Saisses (1242) as well as Saysel and Saissel appeared in the 13th century. The place name is derived from the Latin word saxum (rock, stone block).

Since the 13th century, Sassel was temporarily under the Payerne Monastery and temporarily under the Bishop of Lausanne. With the conquest of Vaud by Bern in 1536, the village came under the administration of the Payerne Governorate , whereby it formed an exclave. After the collapse of the Ancien Régime , Sassel belonged to the Estavayer-le-Lac district in the canton of Friborg from 1798 to 1803 during the Helvetic Republic. When the Mediation Constitution came into force in 1803, the place was reassigned to the Canton of Vaud and the District of Payerne.

Attractions

The Sassel chapel is mentioned as early as the beginning of the 16th century; later it was changed several times. The stately farmhouses, dating from the 18th and 19th centuries, almost all have a gable facing from southwest to northeast.

literature

Monique Fontannaz, Brigitte Pradervand: “Le district de la Broye-Vully 1.” (= The art monuments of Switzerland. Volume 128). Ed. Society for Swiss Art History SKG. Bern 2015, pp. 409-412, ISBN 978-3-03797-180-2 .

Web links

Commons : Sassel - collection of images, videos and audio files

Community information. ( Memento from April 14, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
Gilbert Marion / MS: Sassel. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Aerial views of the village