Essert-sous-Champvent
Essert -sous- Champvent was until 31 December 2011, a municipality in the district of Jura -Nord Vaudois in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. On January 1, 2012, it merged with Pittet.
Geography
Essert -sous- Pittet is on 480 m above sea level. M., 4.5 km west-north- west of the district capital Yverdon- les- Bains ( straight line ). The village street lines extends to a small ridge at the edge of the Jura plateau, in the Vaud Mittelland.
The area of only 1.2 square kilometers just great former municipal area includes a portion of the northern Vaud Mittelland. The communal land extending from a depression in the north of the Talniederung the Bey northward over the back of Essert -sous- Pittet and the little valley of the brine to the edge of the clearing Mornens. The highest point of the municipality is 528 m above sea level. M. reaches below the court Mornens. From the municipality surface 1997 9 % came from settlements, 20 % of forest and woody plants and 71% to agriculture.
To Essert -sous- Champvent the homestead Clos des Ponts heard west of the village.
Population
With 154 inhabitants (as at 31 December 2011) Essert -sous- Champvent one of the smallest former municipalities of the canton of Vaud. Of the 71.2 % inhabitants are French-speaking, 21.2 % and 4.6 % portugiesischsprachig Italian-speaking ( as of 2000). The population of Essert -sous- Champvent amounted in 1850 to 109 residents in 1900 to 114 inhabitants. After a decrease to 60 inhabitants was recorded due to high levels of emigration until 1980; Since then, a significant population increase has been registered with a doubling of the population within 20 years.
Economy
Essert -sous- Champvent still lives mainly from agriculture, especially from agriculture ( with extensive vegetable crops ) from the Fruit and wine growing. Some employed persons are also commuters who work mainly in Yverdon.
Traffic
The former church is a very good transport developed. It lies on the main road from Yverdon to Sainte- Croix. The highway connecting Yverdon- Ouest on the A5 which opened in 1984 ( Yverdon- Grandson) is approximately 3 km from the center. On November 27, 1893, the narrow gauge railway Chemin de fer Yverdon - Ste -Croix taken with a station at Essert -sous- Champvent in operation. From the train station runs a bus line by Pittet.
History
The former municipality of Essert -sous- Champvent was inhabited in Roman times, this is proved by the discovery of the remains of walls and coins from this period. The first written mention of the village was carried out in 1095 under the name Exertas. The place name is on exsartum, the past participle of Late Latin word exsarire ( clear, speak to cultivate ) due.
Essert -sous- Champvent was in the High Middle Ages part of the rule Grandson and came in 1225 to the rule Pittet. With the conquest of Vaud by Bern in 1536, the village came under the administration of the Bailiwick of Yverdon. During the Bernese time it was the rule Montagny -le- Corbe affiliated. After the collapse of the ancien régime Essert -sous- Champvent 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 of Yverdon. Essert -sous- Champvent does not have its own church, it belongs to the parish Pittet.