Autafond is a former
municipality
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate.
The term ''municipality ...
in the district of
Sarine Sarine may refer to:
*Sarine District, one of Switzerland's seven districts
*Saane/Sarine
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in the
canton of
Fribourg
, Location of , Location of ()
() or , ; or , ; gsw, label=Swiss German, Frybùrg ; it, Friburgo or ; rm, Friburg. is the capital of the Cantons of Switzerland, Swiss canton of Canton of Fribourg, Fribourg and district of Sarine (district), ...
in
Switzerland.
On 1 January 2016, Autafond was annexed by the municipality of
Belfaux
Belfaux (; frp, Bélfox, locally ) is a municipality in the district of Sarine in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland. Its former German name was ''Gumschen'', but this is no longer in use.
History
Belfaux is first mentioned in 12th centur ...
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History
Autafond is first mentioned in 1236 as ''Auta-fonz''.
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Geography
Autafond had an area, , of . Of this area, or 66.5% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 30.2% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 3.7% is settled (buildings or roads).[Swiss Federal Statistical Office-Land Use Statistics]
2009 data . Retrieved 25 March 2010
Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 0.8% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.1%. Out of the forested land, 28.1% of the total land area is heavily forested and 2.1% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 38.0% is used for growing crops and 27.7% is pastures.[
The former municipality is located in the Sarine district.
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Coat of arms
The blazon
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of the municipal coat of arms
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is ''Per pale Argent and Gules three Roses counterchanged barbed and seeded proper.''
Demographics
Autafond had a population () of 68. , 5.8% of the population are resident foreign nationals.[Swiss Federal Statistical Office – Superweb database – Gemeinde Statistics 1981-2008]
. Retrieved 19 June 2010 Over the last 10 years (2000–2010) the population has changed at a rate of -5.5%. Migration accounted for -5.5%, while births and deaths accounted for 0%.
. Retrieved 1 December 2011German
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, the population was 55.8% male and 44.2% female. The population was made up of 39 Swiss men (50.6% of the population) and 4 (5.2%) non-Swiss men. There were 33 Swiss women (42.9%) and 1 (1.3%) non-Swiss women.][Canton of Fribourg Statistics]
. Retrieved 3 November 2011 Of the population in the municipality, 35 or about 43.2% were born in Autafond and lived there in 2000. There were 35 or 43.2% who were born in the same canton, while 9 or 11.1% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 1 or 1.2% were born outside of Switzerland.[
, children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 33.3% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 56.8% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 9.9%.][
, there were 40 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 37 married individuals, 3 widows or widowers and 1 individuals who are divorced.][STAT-TAB Datenwürfel für Thema 40.3 – 2000]
. Retrieved 2 February 2011
, there were 22 private households in the municipality, and an average of 3.3 persons per household.[ There were 2 households that consist of only one person and 6 households with five or more people. , a total of 20 apartments (100.0% of the total) were permanently occupied.][Swiss Federal Statistical Office STAT-TAB – Datenwürfel für Thema 09.2 – Gebäude und Wohnungen]
. Retrieved 28 January 2011 , the construction rate of new housing units was 14.5 new units per 1000 residents.[
The historical population is given in the following chart:]
Politics
In the 2011 federal election the most popular party was the CVP which received 41.7% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SVP (22.3%), the FDP (21.7%) and the SP (4.7%).[Canton of Fribourg National Council Election of 23 October 2011 Statistics]
. Retrieved 3 November 2011
The CVP received about the same percentage of the vote as they did in the 2007 Federal election
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(46.1% in 2007 vs 41.7% in 2011). The SVP moved from third in 2007 (with 18.0%) to second in 2011, the FDP moved from second in 2007 (with 21.5%) to third and the SPS moved from below fourth place in 2007 to fourth. A total of 45 votes were cast in this election, of which 1 or 2.2% was invalid.
Economy
, Autafond had an unemployment rate of 2%. , there were 20 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 7 businesses involved in this sector. No one was employed in the secondary sector
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or the tertiary sector
The tertiary sector of the economy, generally known as the service sector, is the third of the three economic sectors in the three-sector model (also known as the economic cycle). The others are the primary sector ( raw materials) and the secon ...
.[ There were 42 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 31.0% of the workforce.
the total number of ]full-time equivalent
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jobs was 17, all of which were in agriculture.
, there were 22 workers who commuted away from the municipality.[Swiss Federal Statistical Office – Statweb]
. Retrieved 24 June 2010 Of the working population, 4.8% used public transportation to get to work, and 45.2% used a private car.[
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Religion
From the , 67 or 82.7% were Roman Catholic
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, while 12 or 14.8% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church
The Protestant Church in Switzerland (PCS), (EKS); french: Église évangélique réformée de Suisse (EERS); it, Chiesa evangelica riformata in Svizzera (CERiS); rm, Baselgia evangelica refurmada da la Svizra (BRRS) formerly named Federation o ...
. 1 (or about 1.23% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic
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or atheist
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, and 1 individuals (or about 1.23% of the population) did not answer the question.[
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Education
In Autafond about 24 or (29.6%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education
Secondary education or post-primary education covers two phases on the International Standard Classification of Education scale. Level 2 or lower secondary education (less commonly junior secondary education) is considered the second and final ph ...
, and 7 or (8.6%) have completed additional higher education (either university
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or a ''Fachhochschule
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''). Of the 7 who completed tertiary schooling, 71.4% were Swiss men, 28.6% were Swiss women.[
The Canton of Fribourg school system provides one year of non-obligatory ]Kindergarten
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, 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
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.Chart of the education system in Canton Fribourg
During the 2010–11 school year, there were no students attending school in Autafond, but a total of 15 students attended school in other municipalities. Of these students, one was in kindergarten, 7 were in a primary school, 3 were in a mandatory secondary school, 2 were in an upper secondary school and one was in a vocational secondary program. There was one tertiary student from the municipality.[
, there were 17 students from Autafond who attended schools outside the municipality.][
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References
External links
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