Nuvilly
Encyclopedia
Nuvilly is a municipality
in the district of Broye
, in the canton of Fribourg
, Switzerland
.
Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 4.0% and transportation infrastructure made up 3.0%. Out of the forested land, 16.0% of the total land area is heavily forested and 2.0% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 55.0% is used for growing crops and 17.8% is pastures, while 1.3% is used for orchards or vine crops.
The municipality is located in the Broye district, in the southern most part of the Estavayer-le-Lac
exclave and the Broye valley.
The municipalities of Châbles
, Cheyres
, Murist
, Nuvilly and Vuissens
are considering a merger on at a date in the future into the new municipality with an, , undetermined name.
of the municipal coat of arms
is Pally of Six Argent and Azure overall on a Bend Gules three Mullets of Five.
Most of the population speaks French
(280 or 95.2%) as their first language, German
is the second most common (10 or 3.4%) and Portuguese
is the third (2 or 0.7%).
, the population was 48.8% male and 51.2% female. The population was made up of 164 Swiss men (47.4% of the population) and 5 (1.4%) non-Swiss men. There were 167 Swiss women (48.3%) and 10 (2.9%) non-Swiss women. Of the population in the municipality, 150 or about 51.0% were born in Nuvilly and lived there in 2000. There were 60 or 20.4% who were born in the same canton, while 62 or 21.1% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 18 or 6.1% were born outside of Switzerland.
The age distribution, , in Nuvilly is; 46 children or 15.6% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 35 teenagers or 11.9% are between 10 and 19. Of the adult population, 23 people or 7.8% of the population are between 20 and 29 years old. 56 people or 19.0% are between 30 and 39, 37 people or 12.6% are between 40 and 49, and 42 people or 14.3% are between 50 and 59. The senior population distribution is 25 people or 8.5% of the population are between 60 and 69 years old, 16 people or 5.4% are between 70 and 79, there are 13 people or 4.4% who are between 80 and 89, and there is 1 person who is 90 and older.
, there were 119 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 140 married individuals, 20 widows or widowers and 15 individuals who are divorced.
, there were 114 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.6 persons per household. There were 28 households that consist of only one person and 11 households with five or more people. , a total of 114 apartments (88.4% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 5 apartments (3.9%) were seasonally occupied and 10 apartments (7.8%) were empty. , the construction rate of new housing units was 8.6 new units per 1000 residents.
The historical population is given in the following chart:
the most popular party was the CVP
which received 26.3% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SP
(23.7%), the SVP
(22.4%) and the FDP
(13.5%).
The CVP received about the same percentage of the vote as they did in the 2007 Federal election
(31.0% in 2007 vs 26.3% in 2011). The SPS retained about the same popularity (24.7% in 2007), the SVP moved from fourth in 2007 (with 17.9%) to third and the FDP moved from third in 2007 (with 19.2%) to fourth. A total of 127 votes were cast in this election, of which 3 or 2.4% were invalid.
the total number of full-time equivalent
jobs was 50. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 23, all of which were in agriculture. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 9, all of which were in construction. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 18. In the tertiary sector; 2 or 11.1% were in the sale or repair of motor vehicles, 1 was in the movement and storage of goods, 2 or 11.1% were in a hotel or restaurant, 1 was in the information industry, 1 was the insurance or financial industry, 4 or 22.2% were technical professionals or scientists, 4 or 22.2% were in education and 1 was in health care.
, there were 8 workers who commuted into the municipality and 107 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 13.4 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering. Of the working population, 6.3% used public transportation to get to work, and 69.9% used a private car.
As of the rest of the Broye, Nuvilly produces tobacco and sugar beet. More recently and due to the bio-carburant needs, the rapeseed production increased. The lessening of the Federal subvention on milk caused the bovine cattle to decrease in favor of other more remunerating activities (such as the pork and veal breeding for meat purpose).
. Of the rest of the population, there was 1 individual who belongs to another Christian church. There were 5 (or about 1.70% of the population) who were Islam
ic. There were 1 individual who belonged to another church. 16 (or about 5.44% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic
or atheist
, and 11 individuals (or about 3.74% of the population) did not answer the question.
). Of the 27 who completed tertiary schooling, 40.7% were Swiss men, 48.1% were Swiss women.
The Canton of Fribourg school system provides one year of non-obligatory Kindergarten
, followed by six years of Primary school. This is followed by three years of obligatory lower Secondary school where the students are separated according to ability and aptitude. Following the lower Secondary students may attend a three or four year optional upper Secondary school. The upper Secondary school is divided into gymnasium
(university preparatory) and vocational programs. After they finish the upper Secondary program, students may choose to attend a Tertiary school or continue their apprenticeship
.
During the 2010-11 school year, there were a total of 43 students attending 2 classes in Nuvilly. A total of 71 students from the municipality attended any school, either in the municipality or outside of it. There were no kindergarten classes in the municipality, but 7 students attended kindergarten in a neighboring municipality. The municipality had 2 primary classes and 43 students. During the same year, there were no lower secondary classes in the municipality, but 22 students attended lower secondary school in a neighboring municipality. There were no upper Secondary classes or vocational classes, but there was one upper Secondary student and 6 upper Secondary vocational students who attended classes in another municipality. The municipality had no non-university Tertiary classes. who attended classes in another municipality.
, there were 21 students in Nuvilly who came from another municipality, while 35 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 Broye
Broye (district)
Broye District is a one of the seven districts of the Canton of Fribourg, Switzerland, lying in the vicinity of Lake Neuchâtel. Its territory is non-contiguous and Broye is fragmented into four parts, three of which exist as exclaves from the canton of Fribourg...
, in the canton of Fribourg
Canton of Fribourg
The Canton of Fribourg is a canton of Switzerland. It is located in the west of the country. The capital of the canton is Fribourg. The name Fribourg is French, whereas is the German name for both the canton and the town.-History:...
, 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....
.
Geography
Nuvilly has an area, , of 4 square kilometre. Of this area, 2.96 square kilometre or 74.0% is used for agricultural purposes, while 0.72 square kilometre or 18.0% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 0.29 square kilometre or 7.3% is settled (buildings or roads).Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 4.0% and transportation infrastructure made up 3.0%. Out of the forested land, 16.0% of the total land area is heavily forested and 2.0% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 55.0% is used for growing crops and 17.8% is pastures, while 1.3% is used for orchards or vine crops.
The municipality is located in the Broye district, in the southern most part of the Estavayer-le-Lac
Estavayer-le-Lac
Estavayer-le-Lac is a municipality of the canton of Fribourg, situated on the south shore of Lake Neuchâtel. Estavayer-le-Lac is located between Yverdon and Bern. It is the capital of the district of Broye.-History:...
exclave and the Broye valley.
The municipalities of Châbles
Châbles
Châbles is a municipality in the district of Broye in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland.-Geography:Châbles has an area, , of . Of this area, or 52.1% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 28.3% is forested...
, Cheyres
Cheyres
Cheyres is a municipality in the district of Broye in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland.-Geography:Cheyres has an area, , of . Of this area, or 42.5% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 35.7% is forested...
, Murist
Murist
Murist is a municipality in the district of Broye, in the canton of Fribourg, Switzerland.Its territory was enlarged in 1981 with the formerly independent municipalities La Vounaise and Montborget, and in 1992 with Franex.-Geography:...
, Nuvilly and Vuissens
Vuissens
Vuissens is a municipality in the district of Broye, in the canton of Fribourg, Switzerland.-Geography:Vuissens has an area, , of . Of this area, or 51.0% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 36.4% is forested...
are considering a merger on at a date in the future into the new municipality with an, , undetermined name.
Coat of arms
The blazonBlazon
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of the municipal coat of arms
Coat of arms
A coat of arms is a unique heraldic design on a shield or escutcheon or on a surcoat or tabard used to cover and protect armour and to identify the wearer. Thus the term is often stated as "coat-armour", because it was anciently displayed on the front of a coat of cloth...
is Pally of Six Argent and Azure overall on a Bend Gules three Mullets of Five.
Demographics
Nuvilly has a population of . , 2.1% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (2000–2010) the population has changed at a rate of 14.4%. Migration accounted for 17%, while births and deaths accounted for 0.3%.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...
(280 or 95.2%) 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 (10 or 3.4%) and Portuguese
Portuguese language
Portuguese is a Romance language that arose in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia, nowadays Galicia and Northern Portugal. The southern part of the Kingdom of Galicia became independent as the County of Portugal in 1095...
is the third (2 or 0.7%).
, the population was 48.8% male and 51.2% female. The population was made up of 164 Swiss men (47.4% of the population) and 5 (1.4%) non-Swiss men. There were 167 Swiss women (48.3%) and 10 (2.9%) non-Swiss women. Of the population in the municipality, 150 or about 51.0% were born in Nuvilly and lived there in 2000. There were 60 or 20.4% who were born in the same canton, while 62 or 21.1% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 18 or 6.1% were born outside of Switzerland.
The age distribution, , in Nuvilly is; 46 children or 15.6% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 35 teenagers or 11.9% are between 10 and 19. Of the adult population, 23 people or 7.8% of the population are between 20 and 29 years old. 56 people or 19.0% are between 30 and 39, 37 people or 12.6% are between 40 and 49, and 42 people or 14.3% are between 50 and 59. The senior population distribution is 25 people or 8.5% of the population are between 60 and 69 years old, 16 people or 5.4% are between 70 and 79, there are 13 people or 4.4% who are between 80 and 89, and there is 1 person who is 90 and older.
, there were 119 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 140 married individuals, 20 widows or widowers and 15 individuals who are divorced.
, there were 114 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.6 persons per household. There were 28 households that consist of only one person and 11 households with five or more people. , a total of 114 apartments (88.4% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 5 apartments (3.9%) were seasonally occupied and 10 apartments (7.8%) were empty. , the construction rate of new housing units was 8.6 new units per 1000 residents.
The historical population is given in the following chart:
Politics
In the 2011 federal electionSwiss federal election, 2011
Federal elections were held in Switzerland on 23 October 2011.All of the Federal Assembly were to be elected: all 200 seats in the National Council and all 46 seats in the Council of States....
the most popular party was the CVP
Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland
The Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland is a Christian democratic political party in Switzerland. It is the fourth-largest party in the National Council, with 31 seats, and the largest in the Council of States, with 15 seats. It has one seat, that of Doris Leuthard, on the Swiss...
which received 26.3% 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....
(23.7%), 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...
(22.4%) and 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....
(13.5%).
The CVP received about the same percentage of the vote as they did in the 2007 Federal election
Swiss 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...
(31.0% in 2007 vs 26.3% in 2011). The SPS retained about the same popularity (24.7% in 2007), the SVP moved from fourth in 2007 (with 17.9%) to third and the FDP moved from third in 2007 (with 19.2%) to fourth. A total of 127 votes were cast in this election, of which 3 or 2.4% were invalid.
Economy
, Nuvilly had an unemployment rate of 3.4%. , there were 31 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 11 businesses involved in this sector. 11 people were employed in the secondary sector and there were 4 businesses in this sector. 19 people were employed in the tertiary sector, with 13 businesses in this sector. There were 143 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 42.7% 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 50. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 23, all of which were in agriculture. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 9, all of which were in construction. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 18. In the tertiary sector; 2 or 11.1% were in the sale or repair of motor vehicles, 1 was in the movement and storage of goods, 2 or 11.1% were in a hotel or restaurant, 1 was in the information industry, 1 was the insurance or financial industry, 4 or 22.2% were technical professionals or scientists, 4 or 22.2% were in education and 1 was in health care.
, there were 8 workers who commuted into the municipality and 107 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 13.4 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering. Of the working population, 6.3% used public transportation to get to work, and 69.9% used a private car.
As of the rest of the Broye, Nuvilly produces tobacco and sugar beet. More recently and due to the bio-carburant needs, the rapeseed production increased. The lessening of the Federal subvention on milk caused the bovine cattle to decrease in favor of other more remunerating activities (such as the pork and veal breeding for meat purpose).
Religion
From the , 226 or 76.9% were Roman Catholic, while 34 or 11.6% 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 was 1 individual who belongs to another Christian church. There were 5 (or about 1.70% 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. 16 (or about 5.44% 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 11 individuals (or about 3.74% of the population) did not answer the question.
Education
In Nuvilly about 99 or (33.7%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 27 or (9.2%) 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 27 who completed tertiary schooling, 40.7% were Swiss men, 48.1% were Swiss women.
The Canton of Fribourg school system provides one year of non-obligatory 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 six years of Primary school. This is followed by three years of obligatory lower Secondary school where the students are separated according to ability and aptitude. Following the lower Secondary students may attend a three or four year optional upper Secondary school. The upper Secondary school is divided into gymnasium
Gymnasium (school)
A gymnasium is a type of school providing secondary education in some parts of Europe, comparable to English grammar schools or sixth form colleges and U.S. college preparatory high schools. The word γυμνάσιον was used in Ancient Greece, meaning a locality for both physical and intellectual...
(university preparatory) and vocational programs. After they finish the upper Secondary program, students may choose to attend a Tertiary school or continue their apprenticeship
Apprenticeship
Apprenticeship is a system of training a new generation of practitioners of a skill. Apprentices or protégés build their careers from apprenticeships...
.
During the 2010-11 school year, there were a total of 43 students attending 2 classes in Nuvilly. A total of 71 students from the municipality attended any school, either in the municipality or outside of it. There were no kindergarten classes in the municipality, but 7 students attended kindergarten in a neighboring municipality. The municipality had 2 primary classes and 43 students. During the same year, there were no lower secondary classes in the municipality, but 22 students attended lower secondary school in a neighboring municipality. There were no upper Secondary classes or vocational classes, but there was one upper Secondary student and 6 upper Secondary vocational students who attended classes in another municipality. The municipality had no non-university Tertiary classes. who attended classes in another municipality.
, there were 21 students in Nuvilly who came from another municipality, while 35 residents attended schools outside the municipality.