Villars-sous-Champvent
Villars -sous- Pittet 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
Villars -sous- Pittet is on 464 m above sea level. M., 4.5 km west of the district capital Yverdon- les- Bains ( straight line ). The farming village extends slightly above the Valley of the Bey, the Vaud Mittelland.
The area of only 0.9 square kilometers just great former municipal area includes a portion of the northern Vaud Mittelland the Jura foothills. The central part of the area is the flat Talniederung the Bey. Just north, the hill of Villars -sous- Pittet, one of the plateau, at the foot of the Jura. To the south of the former communal land extends to the northern slope of Mont de Chamblon where it reaches 510 m above sea level. M. the highest point of Villars -sous- Pittet. From the former rural community area in 1997 4 % related to settlements, 6% of the forest and woody plants and 90 % to agriculture.
Population
With 58 inhabitants ( 31 December 2011) Villars -sous- Champvent among the smallest of the former municipalities of the canton of Vaud. Of the 97.8 % inhabitants are French-speaking and German-speaking 2.2 % (as of 2000). The population of Villars -sous- Champvent amounted in 1900 to 56 inhabitants. After the population until 1990, decreased to 37 people, a slight increase in population was registered again since then.
Economy
Villars -sous- Champvent still lives mainly from agriculture, especially from agriculture and from the orchards. On the southern slope below the village there are three small wine-growing regions. Outside the primary sector, there is little employment in the village.
Traffic
The former municipality is traffic-infrastructure. It is located slightly above the main road from Yverdon to Orbe. The highway connecting Yverdon- Ouest on the A5 which opened in 1984 ( Yverdon- Grandson) is approximately 3 km from the center. Villars -sous- Pittet is operated when required by the postal car course, which runs from Essert -sous- Champvent station ( on the narrow gauge railway line from Yverdon to Sainte -Croix ) by Pittet.
History
The village was called in the Middle Ages La Grange -de- Pittet. Villars -sous- Pittet was in the Middle Ages of the rule Pittet. With the conquest of Vaud by Bern in 1536, the village came under the administration of the Bailiwick of Yverdon. After the collapse of the ancien régime Villars -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. Villars -sous- Champvent does not have its own church, it belongs to the parish Pittet.