Bussy-sur-Moudon
Bussy -sur -Moudon
Bussy -sur -Moudon is a municipality in the district Broye Vully the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.
Geography
Bussy -sur -Moudon lies on 628 m above sea level. M., 18 km southwest of the district town Payerne ( straight line ). The scattered village extends on a terrace on the upper western flank of the Broye, Molassehügelland in the eastern canton of Vaud Mittelland.
The area of 3.1 km ² large municipality area includes a portion of the hill country between the Valley of Mentue and the middle Broyetal. The communal land extends from the ground terrace of Bussy westward across the height of the Bois de la Grange ( above 701 m. M. the highest point of the municipality ) to in the subsequent valley Vallon de Vaux, which is drained by the Cerjaule. The southern border is the little valley of the Riau Gresin, which is like the Cerjaule a left side of the creek Broye. From the municipality surface 1997 accounted for 5% on settlements, 21 % of forest and shrubs, 73% to agriculture and slightly less than 1% was unproductive land.
At Bussy -sur -Moudon include several individual farms. Neighboring communities of Bussy -sur -Moudon are Lucens, Moudon, Neyruz -sur -Moudon and Oulens -sur -Lucens.
Population
With 188 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012) Bussy -sur -Moudon is one of the small communities of the Canton of Vaud. Of the 93.6% inhabitants are French-speaking, German-speaking 2.2 % and 1.6 % portugiesischsprachig (as of 2000). The Population of Bussy -sur -Moudon amounted in 1850 to 245 residents in 1900 to 198 inhabitants. Thereafter, a further decrease to 156 inhabitants was recorded until 1970; Since then, the population has increased slightly again.
Economy
Bussy -sur -Moudon was until the second half of the 20th century, mainly coined by farming village. Even today, the farming, fruit growing and cattle breeding have an important role in the economic structure of the population. More jobs are in small local manufacturing and services available. In recent decades, the village has developed into a residential community. Some of the working population commuters who work mainly in Moudon, but partly also in Lausanne.
Traffic
The community is located off the major thoroughfares on a road from Moudon after Oulens -sur -Lucens. By Postbus course, which runs from Moudon by Bussy -sur -Moudon and partly on via Villars -le- Comte after Thierrens, the village is connected to the network of public transport.
History
Through the municipal area of Bussy -sur -Moudon led the Roman road from Minnodunum ( Moudon ) to Eburodunum ( Yverdon- les- Bains ). 1858 a bronze statue was found from that period. The first documentary mention of the place was in the 12th century under the name Buxi. The place name is probably derived from the Latin word buxus ( boxwood ).
Since the mid-14th century was one of Bussy -sur -Moudon for Savoy Kastlanei Moudon. With the conquest of Vaud by Bern in 1536, the village came under the administration of the bailiwick Moudon. After the collapse of the ancien régime Bussy -sur -Moudon 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. Bussy -sur -Moudon does not have its own church, it belongs to the parish Moudon.