Cheyres

Cheyres ( frp, Chêres, locally or ''Tsàrè'') is a former municipality in the district of Broye in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland. On 1 January 2017 the former municipalities of Cheyres and Châbles merged into the new municipality of Cheyres-Châbles.

History

Cheyres is first mentioned in 1230 as ''Cheres''.

Geography

Cheyres has an area, , of . Of this area, or 42.5% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 35.7% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 14.2% is settled (buildings or roads), or 1.0% is either rivers or lakes and or 6.6% is unproductive land.Swiss Federal Statistical Office-Land Use Statistics
2009 data . Retrieved 25 March 2010

Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 8.2% and transportation infrastructure made up 3.9%. while parks, green belts and sports fields made up 1.8%. Out of the forested land, all of the forested land area is covered with heavy forests. Of the agricultural land, 26.5% is used for growing crops and 11.1% is pastures, while 4.9% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is in lakes.

The municipality is located in the Broye district, on the southern shore of Lake Neuchatel in the extreme western tip of the Estavayer-le-Lac exclave. It consists of the village of Cheyres and the hamlet of Granges-de-Cheyres.

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

Coat of arms

The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is ''Gules, a Fess bendy Sable and Argent.''

Demographics

Cheyres has a population () of . , 7.1% 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 66.3%. Migration accounted for 65.8%, while births and deaths accounted for 1.9%.
. Retrieved 7 November 2011

Most of the population () speaks French (597 or 86.8%) as their first language, German is the second most common (66 or 9.6%) and Portuguese is the third (10 or 1.5%). There are 3 people who speak Italian and 1 person who speaks Romansh.

, the population was 50.0% male and 50.0% female. The population was made up of 514 Swiss men (45.4% of the population) and 51 (4.5%) non-Swiss men. There were 526 Swiss women (46.5%) and 40 (3.5%) non-Swiss women.Canton of Fribourg Statistics
. Retrieved 3 November 2011 Of the population in the municipality, 193 or about 28.1% were born in Cheyres and lived there in 2000. There were 103 or 15.0% who were born in the same canton, while 290 or 42.2% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 73 or 10.6% were born outside of Switzerland.

The age distribution, , in Cheyres is; 77 children or 11.2% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 79 teenagers or 11.5% are between 10 and 19. Of the adult population, 61 people or 8.9% of the population are between 20 and 29 years old. 119 people or 17.3% are between 30 and 39, 103 people or 15.0% are between 40 and 49, and 93 people or 13.5% are between 50 and 59. The senior population distribution is 75 people or 10.9% of the population are between 60 and 69 years old, 63 people or 9.2% are between 70 and 79, there are 18 people or 2.6% who are between 80 and 89.

, there were 244 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 344 married individuals, 53 widows or widowers and 47 individuals who are divorced.STAT-TAB Datenwürfel für Thema 40.3 – 2000
. Retrieved 2 February 2011

, there were 295 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.3 persons per household. There were 101 households that consist of only one person and 17 households with five or more people. , a total of 287 apartments (49.1% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 266 apartments (45.5%) were seasonally occupied and 32 apartments (5.5%) were empty.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 41.4 new units per 1000 residents.

The historical population is given in the following chart:

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Politics

In the 2011 federal election the most popular party was the SVP which received 28.6% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SP (26.7%), the CVP (17.2%) and the FDP (9.5%).Canton of Fribourg National Council Election of 23 October 2011 Statistics
. Retrieved 3 November 2011

The SVP received about the same percentage of the vote as they did in the 2007 Federal election (28.7% in 2007 vs 28.6% in 2011). The SPS moved from third in 2007 (with 21.2%) to second in 2011, the CVP moved from second in 2007 (with 23.3%) to third and the FDP gained popularity (12.6% in 2007). A total of 364 votes were cast in this election, of which 6 or 1.6% were invalid.

Economy

, Cheyres had an unemployment rate of 5.3%. , there were 30 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 10 businesses involved in this sector. 26 people were employed in the secondary sector and there were 10 businesses in this sector. 66 people were employed in the tertiary sector, with 22 businesses in this sector. There were 349 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 42.1% of the workforce.

the total number of full-time equivalent jobs was 100. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 21, all of which were in agriculture. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 24 of which 11 or (45.8%) were in manufacturing and 13 (54.2%) were in construction. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 55. In the tertiary sector; 8 or 14.5% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 3 or 5.5% were in the movement and storage of goods, 24 or 43.6% were in a hotel or restaurant, 1 was in the information industry, 5 or 9.1% were technical professionals or scientists, 6 or 10.9% were in education.

, there were 18 workers who commuted into the municipality and 253 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 14.1 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering.Swiss Federal Statistical Office – Statweb
. Retrieved 24 June 2010 Of the working population, 8.6% used public transportation to get to work, and 69.9% used a private car.

Religion

From the , 384 or 55.8% were Roman Catholic, while 165 or 24.0% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church. Of the rest of the population, there were 3 members of an Orthodox church (or about 0.44% of the population), there was 1 individual who belongs to the Christian Catholic Church, and there were 20 individuals (or about 2.91% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There were 3 (or about 0.44% of the population) who were Islamic. 84 (or about 12.21% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic or atheist, and 37 individuals (or about 5.38% of the population) did not answer the question.

Education

In Cheyres about 251 or (36.5%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 88 or (12.8%) have completed additional higher education (either university or a ''Fachhochschule''). Of the 88 who completed tertiary schooling, 59.1% were Swiss men, 36.4% 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.Chart of the education system in Canton Fribourg

During the 2010–11 school year, there were a total of 88 students attending 4 classes in Cheyres. A total of 159 students from the municipality attended any school, either in the municipality or outside of it. There were 2 kindergarten classes with a total of 42 students in the municipality. There were 2 primary classes with a total of 46 students. There were no lower secondary classes in the municipality, but 35 students attended lower secondary school in a neighboring municipality. There were no upper Secondary classes or vocational classes, but there were 2 upper Secondary students and 21 upper Secondary vocational students who attended classes in another municipality. There were no non-university Tertiary classes, but there were 2 specialized Tertiary students who attended classes in another municipality.

, there were 21 students in Cheyres who came from another municipality, while 92 residents attended schools outside the municipality.

Transportation

The municipality has a railway station, , on the Fribourg–Yverdon line. It has regular service to and .

References

External links

Official website

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Former municipalities of the canton of Fribourg
Populated places on Lake Neuchâtel