Rossenges
Rossenges
Rossenges is a municipality in the district Broye Vully the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.
Geography
Rossenges is located on 662 m above sea level. M., 22.5 km southwest of the district town Payerne ( straight line ). The small village extends on a Molassehöhenzug northeast of the Jorat, west of the Valley of the Broye, in the eastern canton of Vaud Mittelland.
The area of only just 1.1 km ² large municipality area includes a portion of the Molassehöhe, which is bounded on the east by the Broye and in the south of the Bressonne in the northwest of the MERINE. However, the municipality does not extend to these rivers, but is limited to the clearing on the island height. To the west the plateau of Rossenges increases and reaches to the hallway Le Mont 720 m above sea level. M., at the edge of the Bois Bataillard 744 m above sea level. M. (highest point of Rossenges ) and on the plateau of La Doreire 709 m above sea level. M. From the municipality surface 1997 2 % related to settlements, 4% forest and woody plants and 94 % to agriculture.
To Rossenges the hamlet of L' Abbaye ( de Rossenges ) is ( 683 m above sea level. M. ) on a slope northwest of the village. Neighboring communities of Rossenges are Moudon, Syens and Hermenches.
Population
With 59 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012) Rossenges one of the smallest municipalities in the canton of Vaud. Of the 94.1 % inhabitants are French-speaking and German-speaking 5.9 % (as of 2000). The population of Rossenges amounted in 1900 to 94 inhabitants. Thereafter, until 1990, by strong emigration recorded a decrease by around 50 % to 46 residents; Since then, the population increased again slightly.
Economy
Rossenges 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. Outside the primary sector jobs in the village hardly exist. In recent decades, the village has developed into a residential community. Some employed persons are therefore commuters who work mainly in Moudon.
Traffic
The community is located off the major thoroughfares, yet is within easy reach of Moudon. By Postbus course, which runs from Moudon via Villars- Mendraz after Thierrens, Rossenges is connected to the public transport network.
History
The first written mention of the town took place in 1309. The place name is derived from the Burgundian personal names Rauso or Rozzo and means for the people of Rauso / Rozzo. Rossenges belonged since its first mention of the under Savoyard rule Moudon. With the conquest of Vaud by Bern in 1536, the village came under the administration of the bailiwick Moudon. It was not until 1749 Rossenges was one of Moudon independent, independent community. After the collapse of the ancien régime Rossenges 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.