Bellerive is a former

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

in the district of Broye-Vully in the canton of

Vaud Vaud ( ; french: (Canton de) Vaud, ; german: (Kanton) Waadt, or ), more formally the canton of Vaud, is one of the 26 cantons forming the Swiss Confederation. It is composed of ten districts and its capital city is Lausanne. Its coat of arms b ...

Switzerland ). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...

. The municipalities of Bellerive,

Chabrey Chabrey is a former municipality in the district of Broye-Vully in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. The municipalities of Bellerive, Chabrey, Constantine, Montmagny, Mur, Vallamand and Villars-le-Grand merged on 1 July 2011 into the new m ...

Constantine Constantine most often refers to: * Constantine the Great, Roman emperor from 306 to 337, also known as Constantine I *Constantine, Algeria, a city in Algeria Constantine may also refer to: People * Constantine (name), a masculine given name ...

, Montmagny, Mur (VD),

Vallamand Vallamand is a former municipality in the Swiss canton of Vaud in the district of Broye-Vully. The municipalities of Bellerive, Chabrey, Constantine, Montmagny, Mur, Vallamand and Villars-le-Grand merged on 1 July 2011 into the new municip ...

and

Villars-le-Grand Villars-le-Grand is a former municipality in the district of Broye-Vully in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. The municipalities of Bellerive, Chabrey, Constantine, Montmagny, Mur, Vallamand and Villars-le-Grand merged on 1 July 2011 into ...

merged on 1 July 2011 into the new municipality of

Vully-les-Lacs Vully-les-Lacs is a municipality in the district of Broye-Vully in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. The municipalities of Bellerive, Chabrey, Constantine, Montmagny, Mur (VD), Vallamand and Villars-le-Grand merged on 1 July 2011 into the n ...

.Amtliches Gemeindeverzeichnis der Schweiz
published by the Swiss Federal Statistical Office accessed 17 February 2011

History

Bellerive is first mentioned in 1228 as ''Balariva''.

Geography

Bellerive has an area, , of . Of this area, or 61.5% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 9.7% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 23.0% is settled (buildings or roads), or 1.8% is either rivers or lakes and or 1.8% is unproductive land.
2009 data accessed 25 March 2010 Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 15.5% and transportation infrastructure made up 6.2%. Out of the forested land, 8.0% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.8% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 35.8% is used for growing crops and 13.7% is pastures, while 11.9% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is flowing water. The municipality is located in the Broye-Vully District, on the slopes of

Mont Vully Mont Vully (653 m; in German also known as ''Wistenlacherberg''''MontVully''
hls-dhs-dss.ch) is a

. It consists of the village of Bellerive and the

hamlets A hamlet is a human settlement that is smaller than a town or village. Its size relative to a parish can depend on the administration and region. A hamlet may be considered to be a smaller settlement or subdivision or satellite entity to a lar ...

of Cotterd (with a church, school and 18th Century castle), Vallamand-Dessous, part of Salavaux and numerous farm houses. Bellerive () is located on the Vully, between

Lake Murten Lake Morat or Lake Murten (french: Lac de Morat ; german: Murtensee) is a lake located in the cantons of Fribourg and Vaud in the west of Switzerland. It is named after the small bilingual town of Murten/Morat on its southern shore. It is the s ...

and

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, north of

Avenches Avenches () is a Swiss municipality in the canton of Vaud, located in the district of Broye-Vully. History The roots of Avenches go back to the Celts. A tribe of Helvetians had built a settlement on the hills of Bois de Châtel, south of th ...

. The main part of the village ''Salavaux'' (), located over the

Broye The Broye (; frp, Brouye''Dictionnaire-Dikchenéro: Français-Patois/Patê-Franché''. Société cantonale des patoisans fribourgeois. Fribourg: 2013. p. 87 ) is a 68 km long river, in the cantons of Fribourg and Vaud, in Switzerland. It has ...

, the villages ''Cotterd'' (), on the Vully, and ''

-Dessous'' (), on the west side of

lake Murten Lake Morat or Lake Murten (french: Lac de Morat ; german: Murtensee) is a lake located in the cantons of Fribourg and Vaud in the west of Switzerland. It is named after the small bilingual town of Murten/Morat on its southern shore. It is the s ...

, belong to the municipality of Bellerive.

Coat of arms

The

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of the municipal

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is ''Paly of six Argent and Azure, on a fess Or three helmets Sable.''

Demographics

Bellerive has a population () of 621. , 9.9% of the population are resident foreign nationals.Swiss Federal Statistical Office – Superweb database – Gemeinde Statistics 1981-2008
accessed 19 June 2010 Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of 17.2%. It has changed at a rate of 21.3% due to migration and at a rate of -3.8% due to births and deaths.
accessed 9 May 2011 Most of the population () speaks

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(354 or 67.0%), with

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being second most common (149 or 28.2%) and

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being third (14 or 2.7%). There are 2 people who speak

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. Of the population in the municipality 141 or about 26.7% were born in Bellerive and lived there in 2000. There were 89 or 16.9% who were born in the same canton, while 224 or 42.4% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 59 or 11.2% were born outside of Switzerland. In there were 4 live births to Swiss citizens and 2 births to non-Swiss citizens, and in same time span there were 8 deaths of Swiss citizens. Ignoring immigration and emigration, the population of Swiss citizens decreased by 4 while the foreign population increased by 2. There were 4 Swiss men and 3 Swiss women who emigrated from Switzerland. At the same time, there were 2 non-Swiss men and 4 non-Swiss women who immigrated from another country to Switzerland. The total Swiss population change in 2008 (from all sources, including moves across municipal borders) was a decrease of 2 and the non-Swiss population increased by 11 people. This represents a

population growth rate Population growth is the increase in the number of people in a population or dispersed group. Actual global human population growth amounts to around 83 million annually, or 1.1% per year. The global population has grown from 1 billion in 1800 to ...

of 1.5%. The age distribution, , in Bellerive is; 53 children or 8.5% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 52 teenagers or 8.4% are between 10 and 19. Of the adult population, 54 people or 8.7% of the population are between 20 and 29 years old. 73 people or 11.8% are between 30 and 39, 115 people or 18.5% are between 40 and 49, and 81 people or 13.0% are between 50 and 59. The senior population distribution is 110 people or 17.7% of the population are between 60 and 69 years old, 49 people or 7.9% are between 70 and 79,there are 26 people or 4.2% who are 80 and 89, and there are 8 people or 1.3% who are 90 and older.Canton of Vaud Statistical Office
accessed 29 April 2011 , there were 199 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 237 married individuals, 49 widows or widowers and 43 individuals who are divorced.STAT-TAB Datenwürfel für Thema 40.3 – 2000
accessed 2 February 2011 the average number of residents per living room was 0.5 which is fewer people per room than the cantonal average of 0.61 per room. In this case, a room is defined as space of a housing unit of at least as normal bedrooms, dining rooms, living rooms, kitchens and habitable cellars and attics. About 60.2% of the total households were owner occupied, or in other words did not pay rent (though they may have a

mortgage A mortgage loan or simply mortgage (), in civil law jurisdicions known also as a hypothec loan, is a loan used either by purchasers of real property to raise funds to buy real estate, or by existing property owners to raise funds for any pu ...

or a

rent-to-own Rent-to-own, also known as rental purchase or rent-to-buy, is a type of legally documented transaction under which tangible property, such as furniture, consumer electronics, motor vehicles, home appliances, real property, and engagement rin ...

agreement). , there were 241 private households in the municipality, and an average of 1.9 persons per household. There were 115 households that consist of only one person and 12 households with five or more people. Out of a total of 252 households that answered this question, 45.6% were households made up of just one person and there were 2 adults who lived with their parents. Of the rest of the households, there are 64 married couples without children, 38 married couples with children There were 12 single parents with a child or children. There were 10 households that were made up of unrelated people and 11 households that were made up of some sort of institution or another collective housing. there were 257 single family homes (or 71.0% of the total) out of a total of 362 inhabited buildings. There were 43 multi-family buildings (11.9%), along with 36 multi-purpose buildings that were mostly used for housing (9.9%) and 26 other use buildings (commercial or industrial) that also had some housing (7.2%). Of the single family homes 20 were built before 1919, while 8 were built between 1990 and 2000. The greatest number of single family homes (105) were built between 1961 and 1970. The most multi-family homes (11) were built before 1919 and the next most (9) were built between 1981 and 1990. There was 1 multi-family house built between 1996 and 2000.Swiss Federal Statistical Office STAT-TAB – Datenwürfel für Thema 09.2 – Gebäude und Wohnungen
accessed 28 January 2011 there were 458 apartments in the municipality. The most common apartment size was 3 rooms of which there were 182. There were 13 single room apartments and 94 apartments with five or more rooms. Of these apartments, a total of 191 apartments (41.7% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 237 apartments (51.7%) were seasonally occupied and 30 apartments (6.6%) were empty. , the construction rate of new housing units was 14.5 new units per 1000 residents. The vacancy rate for the municipality, , was 0.2%. The historical population is given in the following chart: Colors= id:lightgrey value:gray(0.9) id:darkgrey value:gray(0.8) ImageSize = width:1080 height:210 PlotArea = height:150 left:100 bottom:50 right:100 AlignBars = justify DateFormat = x.y Period = from:0 till:530 TimeAxis = orientation:vertical AlignBars = justify ScaleMajor = gridcolor:darkgrey increment:100 start:0 ScaleMinor = gridcolor:lightgrey increment:20 start:0 PlotData= color:yellowgreen width:40 mark:(line,white) align:center bar:1764 from:start till:284 text:"284" bar:1803 from:start till:303 text:"303" bar:1850 from:start till:402 text:"402" bar:1860 from:start till:395 text:"395" bar:1870 from:start till:440 text:"440" bar:1880 from:start till:436 text:"436" bar:1888 from:start till:432 text:"432" bar:1900 from:start till:487 text:"487" bar:1910 from:start till:442 text:"442" bar:1920 from:start till:444 text:"444" bar:1930 from:start till:453 text:"453" bar:1941 from:start till:456 text:"456" bar:1950 from:start till:453 text:"453" bar:1960 from:start till:427 text:"427" bar:1970 from:start till:412 text:"412" bar:1980 from:start till:433 text:"433" bar:1990 from:start till:500 text:"500" bar:2000 from:start till:528 text:"528"

Sights

The entire hamlets of Cotterd and Vallamand-Dessous are designated as part of the

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Politics

In the

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the most popular party was the SVP which received 27.33% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the FDP (26.51%), the SP (16.52%) and the

Green Party A green party is a formally organized political party based on the principles of green politics, such as social justice, environmentalism and nonviolence. Greens believe that these issues are inherently related to one another as a foundation ...

(13%). In the federal election, a total of 193 votes were cast, and the

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was 42.7%.

Economy

, Bellerive had an unemployment rate of 2.2%. , there were 30 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 8 businesses involved in this sector. 3 people were employed in the

secondary sector In macroeconomics, the secondary sector of the economy is an economic sector in the three-sector theory that describes the role of manufacturing. It encompasses industries that produce a finished, usable product or are involved in construction. ...

and there were 3 businesses in this sector. 155 people were employed in 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 second ...

, with 24 businesses in this sector. There were 268 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 44.4% of the workforce. the total number of

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jobs was 140. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 22, all of which were in agriculture. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 3 of which 2 or (66.7%) were in manufacturing and 1 was in construction. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 115. In the tertiary sector; 34 or 29.6% were in the sale or repair of motor vehicles, 14 or 12.2% were in the movement and storage of goods, 14 or 12.2% were in a hotel or restaurant, 1 was in the information industry, 1 was the insurance or financial industry, 4 or 3.5% were in education and 44 or 38.3% were in health care. , there were 108 workers who commuted into the municipality and 179 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 1.7 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering.Swiss Federal Statistical Office – Statweb
accessed 24 June 2010 Of the working population, 5.6% used public transportation to get to work, and 68.7% used a private car.

Religion

From the , 110 or 20.8% were

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, while 335 or 63.4% 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 ...

. Of the rest of the population, there were 4 members of an Orthodox church (or about 0.76% of the population), there was 1 individual who belongs to the Christian Catholic Church, and there were 8 individuals (or about 1.52% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There were 4 (or about 0.76% of the population) who were

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ic. There were 3 individuals who were

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and 1 individual who belonged to another church. 55 (or about 10.42% of the population) belonged to no church, are

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atheist Atheism, in the broadest sense, is an absence of belief in the existence of deities. Less broadly, atheism is a rejection of the belief that any deities exist. In an even narrower sense, atheism is specifically the position that there no ...

, and 7 individuals (or about 1.33% of the population) did not answer the question.

Education

In Bellerive about 211 or (40.0%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 77 or (14.6%) have completed additional higher education (either

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or a ''

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''). Of the 77 who completed tertiary schooling, 61.0% were Swiss men, 29.9% were Swiss women, 6.5% were non-Swiss men. In the 2009/2010 school year there were a total of 48 students in the Bellerive school district. In the Vaud cantonal school system, two years of non-obligatory pre-school are provided by the political districts.Organigramme de l'école vaudoise, année scolaire 2009-2010
accessed 2 May 2011 During the school year, the political district provided pre-school care for a total of 155 children of which 83 children (53.5%) received subsidized pre-school care. The canton's

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program requires students to attend for four years. There were 29 students in the municipal primary school program. The obligatory lower secondary school program lasts for six years and there were 19 students in those schools.Canton of Vaud Statistical Office – Scol. obligatoire/filières de transition
accessed 2 May 2011 , there were 42 students in Bellerive who came from another municipality, while 53 residents attended schools outside the municipality.

Notable people

* René Grandjean, Swiss aviation pioneer

References

External links

Municipality of Bellerive
official website * {{Authority control Former municipalities of the canton of Vaud