Servion

Geschichte

Servion is a municipality in the district of Lavaux-Oron in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. The municipality of Les Cullayes merged on 1 January 2012 into Servion.HistoryServion is first mentioned in 1147 as Salvion and as Salviun.GeographyServion has an area, of 4.2km2. Of this area, 2.54km2 or 60.3% is used for agricultural purposes, while 0.99km2 or 23.5% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 0.67km2 or 15.9% is settled (buildings or roads). After the merger the total area was.Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 1.4% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 10.0% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.9%. while parks, green belts and sports fields made up 1.2%. Out of the forested land, 21.9% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.7% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 41.3% is used for growing crops and 18.5% is pastures.The municipality was part of the Oron District until it was dissolved on 31 August 2006, and Servion became part of the new district of Lavaux-Oron.The municipality is located on the eastern bank of the Broye, in the eastern Jorat region.Servion lies at an elevation of 752m, 3.5km west of the district seat at Oron-la-Ville and 13km northeast of Lausanne (as the crow flies). The scattered settlement stretches along the Carrouge brook on the eastern edge of the Jorat.