Syens
Syens
Syens is a municipality in the district Broye Vully the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.
Geography
Syens is located on 588 m above sea level. Level, 24 km southwest of the district town Payerne ( straight line ). The small scattered village extends on a ridge on the right side of the valley Bressonne, northeast of the heights of the Jorat, in the eastern canton of Vaud Mittelland.
The area of 2.5 km ² large municipality area includes a portion of the Molassehügellandes in the region of the middle Broyetals. The main part of the area is situated on a sloping north ridge, the side from that of Bach's Carrouge bounded on the west and north from the valley of the Bressonne, in the east. In the Bois de Bioley south of the village is 710 meters above sea level. M. reached the highest point of Syens. North of the Bressonne extends the municipality floor up to the height of Rossenges (up to 690 m above sea level. M. ). From the municipality surface 1997 13 % came from settlements, 36 % of forest and woody plants and 51% to agriculture.
To Syens include several individual farms. Neighboring communities of Syens are Moudon, Vulliens, Vucherens, Hermenches and Rossenges.
Population
With 139 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012) Syens one of the smallest municipalities in the canton of Vaud. Of the 86.3 % inhabitants are French-speaking, German-speaking 8.6 % and 1.7 % in English (as of 2000). The population of Syens amounted in 1900 to 175 inhabitants. Thereafter, until 1980 due to strong migration, a decrease of around 50 % to 93 inhabitants recorded; Since then, the population grew significantly again.
Economy
Syens was until the mid-20th century, a predominantly coined by farming village. Even today, the farming, fruit growing and cattle breeding have some significance in the occupational structure of the population. More jobs are in small local manufacturing and services available. An important company based in Syens is the Impressor SA, a security printing. In recent decades, the village has developed into a residential community. Some employed persons are therefore commuters who work mainly in Moudon and Lausanne.
Traffic
The community is easily accessible via. It is only a little off the main road 1 from Lausanne to Bern via Payerne, which had high traffic frequencies before the opening of the motorway from Bern in western Switzerland. From this main road branches off at Syens the road from Moudon to Vevey from. Through the bus line 62, the Transports publics de la région Lausannoise that runs from Lausanne to Moudon, Syens is connected to the public transport network.
History
The first documentary mention of the place was already in the 10th century under the name Ciens. Later, the names Ciens in Comitatu Waldensi ( 1081 ) and Parisiens ( 1228 ) published. The name goes back to the Burgundian personal names Sigo and means for the people of Sigo.
Syens belonged in the Middle Ages to the Savoyard castle Bailiwick Moudon. In the 15th century it was raised to its own little rule. 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 Syens 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
The Church of Syens goes in its core back to a building from the Middle Ages. From this time the choir (15th century) is still preserved; the other parts come from an expansion in 1787. In the village there are several typical farmhouses from the 18th and 19th centuries.