Chavannes-sur-Moudon
Chavannes -sur -Moudon
Chavannes -sur -Moudon is a municipality in the district Broye Vully the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.
Geography
Chavannes -sur -Moudon is located at 680 m above sea level. M., 20.5 km southwest of the district town Payerne ( straight line ). The small scattered village extends to a saddle east of the center Broyetals, in the eastern canton of Vaud Mittelland.
The area of 5.2 km ² large municipality area includes a portion of the Molassehügellandes between the Broyetal and the upper reaches of the Glane. The northwestern boundary of the parish is the densely wooded steep slope of Broyetals; in the southwest of the area reaches down almost to Broye. From the hill Le Devin (724 m above sea level. M. ) on the edge of Broyetals the communal land extends eastwards to Waldhöhe En Ardra (up to 760 m above sea level. M. ) and in a narrow strip up to the amount Brûle Fer, on the 848 m above sea level. M. the highest point of Chavannes -sur -Moudon is achieved. The northeastern border runs deep into the hillside erosion valley of Voraire, a short right side of Bach's Broye. From the municipality surface 1997 accounted for 5% of settlements, 20 % of forest and woody plants and 75 % to agriculture.
To Chavannes -sur -Moudon include several individual farms. Neighboring communities of Chavannes -sur -Moudon are Vulliens, Moudon, Chesalles -sur -Moudon and Brenles in the Canton of Vaud and Montet ( Glâne) and Ursy in the Canton of Fribourg.
Population
With 214 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012) Chavannes -sur -Moudon is one of the small communities of the Canton of Vaud. Of the 96.5 % inhabitants are French-speaking, German-speaking 3.1 % and 0.5 % speak Albanian (as of 2000). The population of Chavannes -sur -Moudon amounted in 1850 to 342 residents in 1900 to 335 inhabitants. It was then recorded until 1980, a decrease of nearly 50 % to 180 inhabitants; Since then, the population has increased slightly again.
Economy
Chavannes -sur -Moudon still lives mainly from agriculture, especially from farming, fruit-growing and cattle breeding. Outside the primary sector, very few jobs are available. In recent decades, the village has developed into a residential community. Some of the working population commuters who work mainly in Moudon.
Traffic
The community is located off the major thoroughfares. The main access is from Moudon, other small streets there after Vuarmarens and after Chesalles -sur -Moudon. By Postbus course, which runs from Moudon to Romont, Chavannes -sur -Moudon is connected to the network of public transport.
History
The earliest evidence of the land by the people in the municipal area is a hill grave of the Hallstatt period. The first documentary mention of the place, but was only in 1453 under the name Chavanes. The place name derives from the vulgar Latin capanna (cottage, small courtyard ).
In the 15th century Chavannes -sur -Moudon belonged to Kastlanei Rue. The village was located successively in the possession of the Lords of Moudon, of Illens, Villardin and Prez. In 1663 it came to the family de Loys, which brought the various feudal and seigniorial rights per se. With the conquest of Vaud by Bern in 1536 came Chavannes -sur -Moudon under the administration of the bailiwick Moudon. After the collapse of the ancien régime, the village belonged from 1798 to 1803 during the Helvetic Republic to the canton of Geneva, who came up then with the enactment of the Act of Mediation in the canton of Vaud. 1798 was assigned to the District Moudon.
Attractions
In the Middle Ages a chapel in Chavannes -sur -Moudon is mentioned. The present building was last extensively restored in 1942. In the center some characteristic farmhouses from the 18th and 19th centuries have been preserved.