Dombresson
Encyclopedia
Dombresson is a municipality
in the district of Val-de-Ruz
in the canton
of Neuchâtel in Switzerland
.
The municipalities of Boudevilliers
, Cernier
, Chézard-Saint-Martin
, Coffrane
, Dombresson, Engollon
, Fenin-Vilars-Saules
, Fontainemelon
, Fontaines
, Les Geneveys-sur-Coffrane
, Les Hauts-Geneveys
, Montmollin
, Le Pâquier
and Savagnier
are seeking approval from the voters to merge on 1 January 2013 into the new municipality of Val-de-Ruz.
Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 3.4% and transportation infrastructure made up 0.8%. Out of the forested land, 33.0% of the total land area is heavily forested and 3.1% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 20.7% is used for growing crops and 35.2% is pastures and 2.6% is used for alpine pastures. All the water in the municipality is flowing water.
The municipality is located in the Val-de-Ruz district, along the old course of the Seyon river (before it was moved into a canal and covered in 1928) and on the Neuchâtel-Saint-Imier
road. It consists of the village of Dombresson on the valley floor and the hamlet
of Les Vieux Prés at an elevation of 1030 m (3,379.3 ft) as well as scattered farm houses.
Most of the population speaks French
(1,395 or 91.7%) as their first language, German
is the second most common (44 or 2.9%) and Italian
is the third (26 or 1.7%). There are 2 people who speak Romansh.
, the population was 50.2% male and 49.8% female. The population was made up of 716 Swiss men (45.3% of the population) and 77 (4.9%) non-Swiss men. There were 725 Swiss women (45.9%) and 63 (4.0%) non-Swiss women. Of the population in the municipality, 403 or about 26.5% were born in Dombresson and lived there in 2000. There were 535 or 35.2% who were born in the same canton, while 318 or 20.9% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 221 or 14.5% were born outside of Switzerland.
, children and teenagers (0-19 years old) make up 31.4% of the population, while adults (20-64 years old) make up 56.9% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 11.8%.
, there were 680 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 698 married individuals, 73 widows or widowers and 70 individuals who are divorced.
, there were 567 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.5 persons per household. There were 164 households that consist of only one person and 51 households with five or more people. , a total of 544 apartments (91.1% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 36 apartments (6.0%) were seasonally occupied and 17 apartments (2.8%) were empty. The vacancy rate for the municipality, , was 0.76%.
The historical population is given in the following chart:
. The entire village of Dombresson is part of the Inventory of Swiss Heritage Sites
.
the most popular party was the SVP
which received 26.75% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SP
(24.09%), the FDP
(16.44%) and the LPS Party
(13.17%). In the federal election, a total of 544 votes were cast, and the voter turnout
was 48.8%.
the total number of full-time equivalent
jobs was 329. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 43, of which 36 were in agriculture and 7 were in forestry or lumber production. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 136 of which 92 or (67.6%) were in manufacturing and 44 (32.4%) were in construction. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 150. In the tertiary sector; 37 or 24.7% were in the sale or repair of motor vehicles, 5 or 3.3% were in the movement and storage of goods, 14 or 9.3% were in a hotel or restaurant, 3 or 2.0% were in the information industry, 4 or 2.7% were technical professionals or scientists, 18 or 12.0% were in education and 22 or 14.7% were in health care.
, there were 143 workers who commuted into the municipality and 518 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 3.6 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering. About 3.5% of the workforce coming into Dombresson are coming from outside Switzerland. Of the working population, 10.6% used public transportation to get to work, and 64.7% used a private car.
. Of the rest of the population, there were 3 members of an Orthodox church
(or about 0.20% of the population), and there were 47 individuals (or about 3.09% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There were 33 (or about 2.17% of the population) who were Islam
ic. There were 1 individual who belonged to another church. 328 (or about 21.56% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic
or atheist
, and 52 individuals (or about 3.42% of the population) did not answer the question.
). Of the 159 who completed tertiary schooling, 56.6% were Swiss men, 30.2% were Swiss women, 6.3% were non-Swiss men and 6.9% were non-Swiss women.
In the canton of Neuchâtel most municipalities provide two years of non-mandatory kindergarten
, followed by five years of mandatory primary education. The next four years of mandatory secondary education is provided at thirteen larger secondary schools, which many students travel out of their home municipality to attend. The kindergarten is combined with Villiers
and Le Paquier while the primary school is combined with Villiers
. During the 2010-11 school year, there were 3 kindergarten classes with a total of 50 students between the municipalities. In the same year, there were 8 primary classes with a total of 156 students.
, there were 44 students in Dombresson who came from another municipality, while 145 residents attended schools outside the municipality.
Municipalities of Switzerland
Communes , also known as municipalities, are the smallest government division in Switzerland, numbering 2,596 . While many have a population of a few hundred citizens, the largest cities such as Zürich or Geneva also have the legal status of municipalities...
in the district of Val-de-Ruz
Val-de-Ruz (district)
Val-de-Ruz District is a district of the canton of Neuchâtel, Switzerland, consisting of the region of Val de Ruz and the surrounding Jura Mountains. The district capital is the town of Cernier...
in the canton
Cantons of Switzerland
The 26 cantons of Switzerland are the member states of the federal state of Switzerland. Each canton was a fully sovereign state with its own borders, army and currency from the Treaty of Westphalia until the establishment of the Swiss federal state in 1848...
of Neuchâtel in Switzerland
Switzerland
Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....
.
The municipalities of Boudevilliers
Boudevilliers
Boudevilliers is a municipality in the district of Val-de-Ruz in the canton of Neuchâtel in Switzerland.-Geography:Boudevilliers has an area, , of . Of this area, or 61.3% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 32.2% is forested...
, Cernier
Cernier
Cernier is the capital of the district of Val-de-Ruz in the canton of Neuchâtel in Switzerland.The municipalities of Boudevilliers, Cernier, Chézard-Saint-Martin, Coffrane, Dombresson, Engollon, Fenin-Vilars-Saules, Fontainemelon, Fontaines, Les Geneveys-sur-Coffrane, Les Hauts-Geneveys,...
, Chézard-Saint-Martin
Chézard-Saint-Martin
Chézard-Saint-Martin is a municipality in the district of Val-de-Ruz in the canton of Neuchâtel in Switzerland.The municipalities of Boudevilliers, Cernier, Chézard-Saint-Martin, Coffrane, Dombresson, Engollon, Fenin-Vilars-Saules, Fontainemelon, Fontaines, Les Geneveys-sur-Coffrane, Les...
, Coffrane
Coffrane
Coffrane is a municipality in the district of Val-de-Ruz in the canton of Neuchâtel in Switzerland.The municipalities of Boudevilliers, Cernier, Chézard-Saint-Martin, Coffrane, Dombresson, Engollon, Fenin-Vilars-Saules, Fontainemelon, Fontaines, Les Geneveys-sur-Coffrane, Les Hauts-Geneveys,...
, Dombresson, Engollon
Engollon
Engollon is a municipality in the district of Val-de-Ruz in the canton of Neuchâtel in Switzerland.The municipalities of Boudevilliers, Cernier, Chézard-Saint-Martin, Coffrane, Dombresson, Engollon, Fenin-Vilars-Saules, Fontainemelon, Fontaines, Les Geneveys-sur-Coffrane, Les Hauts-Geneveys,...
, Fenin-Vilars-Saules
Fenin-Vilars-Saules
Fenin-Vilars-Saules is a municipality in the district of Val-de-Ruz in the canton of Neuchâtel in Switzerland.The municipalities of Boudevilliers, Cernier, Chézard-Saint-Martin, Coffrane, Dombresson, Engollon, Fenin-Vilars-Saules, Fontainemelon, Fontaines, Les Geneveys-sur-Coffrane, Les...
, Fontainemelon
Fontainemelon
Fontainemelon is a municipality in the district of Val-de-Ruz in the canton of Neuchâtel in Switzerland.The municipalities of Boudevilliers, Cernier, Chézard-Saint-Martin, Coffrane, Dombresson, Engollon, Fenin-Vilars-Saules, Fontainemelon, Fontaines, Les Geneveys-sur-Coffrane, Les Hauts-Geneveys,...
, Fontaines
Fontaines, Switzerland
Fontaines is a municipality in the district of Val-de-Ruz in the canton of Neuchâtel in Switzerland.The municipalities of Boudevilliers, Cernier, Chézard-Saint-Martin, Coffrane, Dombresson, Engollon, Fenin-Vilars-Saules, Fontainemelon, Fontaines, Les Geneveys-sur-Coffrane, Les Hauts-Geneveys,...
, Les Geneveys-sur-Coffrane
Les Geneveys-sur-Coffrane
Les Geneveys-sur-Coffrane is a municipality in the district of Val-de-Ruz in the canton of Neuchâtel in Switzerland.The municipalities of Boudevilliers, Cernier, Chézard-Saint-Martin, Coffrane, Dombresson, Engollon, Fenin-Vilars-Saules, Fontainemelon, Fontaines, Les Geneveys-sur-Coffrane, Les...
, Les Hauts-Geneveys
Les Hauts-Geneveys
Les Hauts-Geneveys is a municipality in the district of Val-de-Ruz in the canton of Neuchâtel in Switzerland.The municipalities of Boudevilliers, Cernier, Chézard-Saint-Martin, Coffrane, Dombresson, Engollon, Fenin-Vilars-Saules, Fontainemelon, Fontaines, Les Geneveys-sur-Coffrane, Les...
, Montmollin
Montmollin
Montmollin is a municipality in the district of Val-de-Ruz in the canton of Neuchâtel in Switzerland.The municipalities of Boudevilliers, Cernier, Chézard-Saint-Martin, Coffrane, Dombresson, Engollon, Fenin-Vilars-Saules, Fontainemelon, Fontaines, Les Geneveys-sur-Coffrane, Les Hauts-Geneveys,...
, Le Pâquier
Le Pâquier, Neuchâtel
Le Pâquier is a municipality in the district of Val-de-Ruz in the canton of Neuchâtel in Switzerland.The municipalities of Boudevilliers, Cernier, Chézard-Saint-Martin, Coffrane, Dombresson, Engollon, Fenin-Vilars-Saules, Fontainemelon, Fontaines, Les Geneveys-sur-Coffrane, Les Hauts-Geneveys,...
and Savagnier
Savagnier
Savagnier is a municipality in the district of Val-de-Ruz in the canton of Neuchâtel in Switzerland.The municipalities of Boudevilliers, Cernier, Chézard-Saint-Martin, Coffrane, Dombresson, Engollon, Fenin-Vilars-Saules, Fontainemelon, Fontaines, Les Geneveys-sur-Coffrane, Les Hauts-Geneveys,...
are seeking approval from the voters to merge on 1 January 2013 into the new municipality of Val-de-Ruz.
Geography
Dombresson has an area, , of 12.8 square kilometre. Of this area, 7.49 square kilometre or 58.7% is used for agricultural purposes, while 4.6 square kilometre or 36.0% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 0.66 square kilometre or 5.2% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.04 km² (9.9 acre) or 0.3% is either rivers or lakes.Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 3.4% and transportation infrastructure made up 0.8%. Out of the forested land, 33.0% of the total land area is heavily forested and 3.1% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 20.7% is used for growing crops and 35.2% is pastures and 2.6% is used for alpine pastures. All the water in the municipality is flowing water.
The municipality is located in the Val-de-Ruz district, along the old course of the Seyon river (before it was moved into a canal and covered in 1928) and on the Neuchâtel-Saint-Imier
Saint-Imier
Saint-Imier is a municipality in the Jura bernois administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. It is located in the French-speaking Bernese Jura .Observatoire Astronomique de Mont-Soleil is located above the village....
road. It consists of the village of Dombresson on the valley floor and the hamlet
Hamlet (place)
A hamlet is usually a rural settlement which is too small to be considered a village, though sometimes the word is used for a different sort of community. Historically, when a hamlet became large enough to justify building a church, it was then classified as a village...
of Les Vieux Prés at an elevation of 1030 m (3,379.3 ft) as well as scattered farm houses.
Demographics
Dombresson has a population of . , 9.3% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (2000–2010) the population has changed at a rate of 9.6%. It has changed at a rate of 5.8% due to migration and at a rate of 10.9% due to births and deaths.Most of the population speaks French
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
(1,395 or 91.7%) as their first language, German
German language
German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
is the second most common (44 or 2.9%) and Italian
Italian language
Italian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia...
is the third (26 or 1.7%). There are 2 people who speak Romansh.
, the population was 50.2% male and 49.8% female. The population was made up of 716 Swiss men (45.3% of the population) and 77 (4.9%) non-Swiss men. There were 725 Swiss women (45.9%) and 63 (4.0%) non-Swiss women. Of the population in the municipality, 403 or about 26.5% were born in Dombresson and lived there in 2000. There were 535 or 35.2% who were born in the same canton, while 318 or 20.9% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 221 or 14.5% were born outside of Switzerland.
, children and teenagers (0-19 years old) make up 31.4% of the population, while adults (20-64 years old) make up 56.9% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 11.8%.
, there were 680 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 698 married individuals, 73 widows or widowers and 70 individuals who are divorced.
, there were 567 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.5 persons per household. There were 164 households that consist of only one person and 51 households with five or more people. , a total of 544 apartments (91.1% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 36 apartments (6.0%) were seasonally occupied and 17 apartments (2.8%) were empty. The vacancy rate for the municipality, , was 0.76%.
The historical population is given in the following chart:
Heritage sites of national significance
The Farm House Aux Planches is listed as Swiss heritage site of national significanceSwiss Inventory of Cultural Property of National and Regional Significance
The Swiss Inventory of Cultural Property of National and Regional Significance is a register of some 8,300 items of cultural property in Switzerland...
. The entire village of Dombresson is part of the Inventory of Swiss Heritage Sites
Inventory of Swiss Heritage Sites
The Inventory of Swiss Heritage Sites is part of a 1981 Ordinance of the Swiss Federal Council implementing the Federal Law on the Protection of Nature and Cultural Heritage.-Sites of national importance:-Types:...
.
Politics
In the 2007 federal electionSwiss federal election, 2007
Elections to the Swiss Federal Assembly, the federal parliament of Switzerland, were held on Sunday, 21 October 2007. In a few cantons, a second round of the elections to the Council of States was held on 11 November, 18 November, and 25 November 2007...
the most popular party was the SVP
Swiss People's Party
The Swiss People's Party , also known as the Democratic Union of the Centre , is a conservative political party in Switzerland. Chaired by Toni Brunner, but spearheaded by Christoph Blocher, the party is the largest party in the Federal Assembly, with 58 members of the National Council and 6 of...
which received 26.75% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SP
Social Democratic Party of Switzerland
The Social Democratic Party of Switzerland is the largest centre-left political party in Switzerland....
(24.09%), the FDP
FDP.The Liberals
FDP.The Liberals is a classical liberal political party in Switzerland. It is the joint-largest party in the Federal Council, third-largest party in the National Council, and second-largest in the Council of States....
(16.44%) and the LPS Party
Liberal Party of Switzerland
The Liberal Party of Switzerland was a party with economically liberal policies. It was known as a party of the upper class. On 1 January 2009 it merged with the larger Free Democratic Party to establish FDP.The Liberals....
(13.17%). In the federal election, a total of 544 votes were cast, and the voter turnout
Voter turnout
Voter turnout is the percentage of eligible voters who cast a ballot in an election . After increasing for many decades, there has been a trend of decreasing voter turnout in most established democracies since the 1960s...
was 48.8%.
Economy
, Dombresson had an unemployment rate of 3.3%. , there were 55 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 25 businesses involved in this sector. 149 people were employed in the secondary sector and there were 18 businesses in this sector. 213 people were employed in the tertiary sector, with 38 businesses in this sector. There were 761 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 42.4% of the workforce.the total number of full-time equivalent
Full-time equivalent
Full-time equivalent , is a unit to measure employed persons or students in a way that makes them comparable although they may work or study a different number of hours per week. FTE is often used to measure a worker's involvement in a project, or to track cost reductions in an organization...
jobs was 329. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 43, of which 36 were in agriculture and 7 were in forestry or lumber production. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 136 of which 92 or (67.6%) were in manufacturing and 44 (32.4%) were in construction. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 150. In the tertiary sector; 37 or 24.7% were in the sale or repair of motor vehicles, 5 or 3.3% were in the movement and storage of goods, 14 or 9.3% were in a hotel or restaurant, 3 or 2.0% were in the information industry, 4 or 2.7% were technical professionals or scientists, 18 or 12.0% were in education and 22 or 14.7% were in health care.
, there were 143 workers who commuted into the municipality and 518 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 3.6 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering. About 3.5% of the workforce coming into Dombresson are coming from outside Switzerland. Of the working population, 10.6% used public transportation to get to work, and 64.7% used a private car.
Religion
From the , 365 or 24.0% were Roman Catholic, while 712 or 46.8% belonged to the Swiss Reformed ChurchSwiss Reformed Church
The Reformed branch of Protestantism in Switzerland was started in Zürich by Huldrych Zwingli and spread within a few years to Basel , Bern , St...
. Of the rest of the population, there were 3 members of an Orthodox church
Orthodox Christianity
The term Orthodox Christianity may refer to:* the Eastern Orthodox Church and its various geographical subdivisions...
(or about 0.20% of the population), and there were 47 individuals (or about 3.09% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There were 33 (or about 2.17% of the population) who were Islam
Islam
Islam . The most common are and . : Arabic pronunciation varies regionally. The first vowel ranges from ~~. The second vowel ranges from ~~~...
ic. There were 1 individual who belonged to another church. 328 (or about 21.56% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic
Agnosticism
Agnosticism is the view that the truth value of certain claims—especially claims about the existence or non-existence of any deity, but also other religious and metaphysical claims—is unknown or unknowable....
or atheist
Atheism
Atheism is, in a broad sense, the rejection of belief in the existence of deities. In a narrower sense, atheism is specifically the position that there are no deities...
, and 52 individuals (or about 3.42% of the population) did not answer the question.
Education
In Dombresson about 558 or (36.7%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 159 or (10.5%) have completed additional higher education (either university or a FachhochschuleFachhochschule
A Fachhochschule or University of Applied Sciences is a German type of tertiary education institution, sometimes specialized in certain topical areas . Fachhochschulen were founded in Germany and later adopted by Austria, Liechtenstein, Switzerland and Greece...
). Of the 159 who completed tertiary schooling, 56.6% were Swiss men, 30.2% were Swiss women, 6.3% were non-Swiss men and 6.9% were non-Swiss women.
In the canton of Neuchâtel most municipalities provide two years of non-mandatory kindergarten
Kindergarten
A kindergarten is a preschool educational institution for children. The term was created by Friedrich Fröbel for the play and activity institute that he created in 1837 in Bad Blankenburg as a social experience for children for their transition from home to school...
, followed by five years of mandatory primary education. The next four years of mandatory secondary education is provided at thirteen larger secondary schools, which many students travel out of their home municipality to attend. The kindergarten is combined with Villiers
Villiers
-Places:In Canada* Villiers, Ontario, a small settlement near PeterboroughIn France* Villiers, Indre, in the Indre département* Villiers, Vienne, in the Vienne département* Villiers-Adam, in the Val-d'Oise département...
and Le Paquier while the primary school is combined with Villiers
Villiers
-Places:In Canada* Villiers, Ontario, a small settlement near PeterboroughIn France* Villiers, Indre, in the Indre département* Villiers, Vienne, in the Vienne département* Villiers-Adam, in the Val-d'Oise département...
. During the 2010-11 school year, there were 3 kindergarten classes with a total of 50 students between the municipalities. In the same year, there were 8 primary classes with a total of 156 students.
, there were 44 students in Dombresson who came from another municipality, while 145 residents attended schools outside the municipality.