Sassel
Sassel was until the merger to Valbroye on July 1, 2011, a municipality in the district Broye Vully the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.
Geography
Sassel is on 634 m above sea level. M., 8 km southwest of the district main town Payerne ( straight line ). The farming village extends a scenic location on a high plateau west of the center Broyetals, Molassehügelland in the northern Vaud Mittelland.
The area of 3.4 km ² large former municipal area includes a portion of the hill country between Lake Neuchâtel and the Broyetal. The central part of the area occupied by the plateau of Sassel. To the west of the municipality of ground covered in the forest Grand Bois, in the 756 m above sea level. M. the highest point of Sassel is achieved. The ridge forms the watershed between the Petite Glane in the west and in the east Broyetal. To the southeast, the area extends to a ground level lower than Sassel lying plateau of Grands Champs (560 m above sea level. M. ) and in a narrow tip to the south up to the Lembe, a left tributary of the Broye. From the municipality surface 1997 4 % came from settlements, 28 % of forest and woody plants and 68 % to agriculture.
The municipality Sassel included several individual farms. 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 Fribourg.
Population
With 149 inhabitants (as at 31 December 2010) Sassel was one of the smallest municipalities of the canton of Vaud. Of the residents 93.9 % are French, 4.7% German-speaking and Italian-speaking 1.4% (as of 2000). The population of Sassel amounted in 1900 to 317 inhabitants. After the population had decreased to 1970 due to strong migration by more than 50 % to 147 people, the population has since remained stable.
Economy
Sassel was until the second half of the 20th century, mainly coined by agriculture village. Even today, the crop and livestock farming have an important role in the economic structure of the population. Some other jobs are in the local retail industry and the services available. Since 1930 located in Sassel the nursing home Asil Duc. In recent decades, the village has developed into a residential community. Some of the working population commuters who work mainly in Payerne.
Traffic
Sassel is off the major thoroughfares on a link road from Payerne to Combremont- le -Grand. By Postbus course, which runs from Payerne to Combremont -le- Petit, Sassel is connected to the public transport network.
History
The first documentary mention of the place in 1163 under the name Saselz. Later, the names Sasel ( 1166 ) published, SASEs ( 1177 ), Sassez ( 1215), Sasse ( 1226 ), Saisel ( 1228 ), Saisses ( 1242 ) and Saysel and Saissel in the 13th century. The place name is derived from the Latin word saxum (rock, stone block ).
Since the 13th century Sassel shelter temporarily to the monastery Payerne, sometimes the Bishop of Lausanne. With the conquest of Vaud by Bern in 1536, the village came under the administration of the province Payerne, where it formed an exclave. After the collapse of the ancien régime Sassel belonged from 1798 to 1803 during the Helvetic Republic to the district Estavayer -le- Lac in the canton of Fribourg. With the enactment of the Constitution of the mediation place in 1803 again assigned to the Canton of Vaud and the district of Payerne.
Attractions
The Chapel of Sassel is mentioned at the beginning of the 16th century; later it was changed several times. The originating from the 18th and 19th century stately farmhouses have almost all a gable orientation from southwest to northeast on.