Coppet is a
municipality
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in the district of
Nyon
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in the
canton of
Vaud
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in
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 ...
.
History
Coppet is first mentioned in 1294 as ''Copetum''. In 1347 it was mentioned as ''Copet''.
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Geography
Coppet has an area (), of . Of this area, or 33.7% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 3.2% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 62.6% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.5% is either rivers or lakes.[Swiss Federal Statistical Office-Land Use Statistics]
2009 data accessed 25 March 2010
Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 45.5% and transportation infrastructure made up 9.1%. Power and water infrastructure as well as other special developed areas made up 3.7% of the area while parks, green belts and sports fields made up 4.3%. Out of the forested land, all of the forested land area is covered with heavy forests. Of the agricultural land, 22.5% is used for growing crops and 5.9% is pastures, while 5.3% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is in lakes.[
The municipality was part of the old ]Nyon District
Nyon District is a district in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland. The seat of the district is the city of Nyon.
Geography
Nyon has an area, , of . Of this area, or 42.0% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 44.7% is forested. Of the res ...
until it was dissolved on 31 August 2006, and Coppet became part of the new district of Nyon.[Nomenklaturen – Amtliches Gemeindeverzeichnis der Schweiz]
accessed 4 April 2011
The municipality is located along the banks of Lake Geneva
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on the Lausanne
, neighboring_municipalities= Bottens, Bretigny-sur-Morrens, Chavannes-près-Renens, Cheseaux-sur-Lausanne, Crissier, Cugy, Écublens, Épalinges, Évian-les-Bains (FR-74), Froideville, Jouxtens-Mézery, Le Mont-sur-Lausanne, Lugrin (FR-74), ...
-Geneva
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road, the Route Suisse.
Coat of arms
The blazon
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of the municipal coat of arms
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is ''Azure, a Chalice Argent.''
Demographics
Coppet has a population () of . , 41.1% 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 29.9%. It has changed at a rate of 24% due to migration and at a rate of 7.1% due to births and deaths.
accessed 20-July-2011
Most of the population () speaks French (1,678 or 71.1%), with English
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being second most common (247 or 10.5%) and German
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being third (173 or 7.3%). There are 45 people who speak Italian
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** Italians, an ethnic group or simply a citizen of the Italian Republic or Italian Kingdom
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and 2 people who speak Romansh.[
The age distribution, , in Coppet is; 348 children or 12.4% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 379 teenagers or 13.5% are between 10 and 19. Of the adult population, 266 people or 9.5% of the population are between 20 and 29 years old. 329 people or 11.7% are between 30 and 39, 499 people or 17.8% are between 40 and 49, and 393 people or 14.0% are between 50 and 59. The senior population distribution is 324 people or 11.6% of the population are between 60 and 69 years old, 193 people or 6.9% are between 70 and 79, there are 69 people or 2.5% who are between 80 and 89, and there are 3 people or 0.1% who are 90 and older.][Canton of Vaud Statistical Office]
accessed 29 April 2011
, there were 970 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 1,186 married individuals, 89 widows or widowers and 115 individuals who are divorced.[STAT-TAB Datenwürfel für Thema 40.3 - 2000]
accessed 2 February 2011
, there were 884 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.5 persons per household.[ There were 249 households that consist of only one person and 70 households with five or more people. Out of a total of 900 households that answered this question, 27.7% were households made up of just one person and there were 5 adults who lived with their parents. Of the rest of the households, there are 226 married couples without children, 338 married couples with children. There were 58 single parents with a child or children. There were 8 households that were made up of unrelated people and 16 households that were made up of some sort of institution or another collective housing.][
there were 436 single family homes (or 75.7% of the total) out of a total of 576 inhabited buildings. There were 70 multi-family buildings (12.2%), along with 51 multi-purpose buildings that were mostly used for housing (8.9%) and 19 other use buildings (commercial or industrial) that also had some housing (3.3%).][Swiss Federal Statistical Office STAT-TAB - Datenwürfel für Thema 09.2 - Gebäude und Wohnungen]
accessed 28 January 2011
, a total of 847 apartments (85.1% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 127 apartments (12.8%) were seasonally occupied and 21 apartments (2.1%) were empty.[ , the construction rate of new housing units was 0 new units per 1000 residents.][ The vacancy rate for the municipality, , was 0.08%.][
The historical population is given in the following chart:]
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Heritage sites of national significance
Coppet Castle
Coppet Castle ( French: ''Château de Coppet'') is a château in the municipality of Coppet of the Canton of Vaud in Switzerland. It is a Swiss heritage site of national significance. It gave its name to the celebrated group of several dozen ea ...
and the ''Institut Européen De L’Université De Genève, Centre D’Archives Européennes'' along with the Temple (former church of the Dominicans) are listed as Swiss heritage site of national significance. The entire small city of Coppet is part of the Inventory of Swiss Heritage Sites
The Federal Inventory of Heritage Sites (ISOS) 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
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Twin Towns
Coppet is twinned with the towns of
Notable residents
* Alexander zu Dohna-Schlobitten (1661-1728), Prussian field marshal
* Christopher I, Burgrave and Count of Dohna-Schlodien
Christopher I, Burgrave and Count of Dohna-Schlodien (2 April 1665 – 11 October 1733) was a Prussian general and diplomat.
Life
Dohna was born at the Coppet Castle in Coppet near Geneva, one of the sons of Frederick of Dohna (1621–16 ...
(1665-1733), Prussian general and diplomat
* Suzanne Curchod (1737-1794), Parisian salonnière
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and wife of Jacques Necker
* Jacques Necker
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(1732-1804), banker and financier to Louis XVI of France
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, owner of Coppet Castle
* Madame de Staël Madame may refer to:
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* ''Madame'' ...
(1766–1817) French woman of letters and historian of Geneva
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n origin. Her family, the Neckers took up residence in 1784 at Coppet Castle
Coppet Castle ( French: ''Château de Coppet'') is a château in the municipality of Coppet of the Canton of Vaud in Switzerland. It is a Swiss heritage site of national significance. It gave its name to the celebrated group of several dozen ea ...
, later returning to the Paris
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region
* Kazem Rajavi
Kazem Rajavi ( fa, کاظم رجوی) (8 February 1934 – 24 April 1990) was a university professor known for his work as a human rights advocate. He was also the elder brother of Iranian Mujahedin leader Massoud Rajavi. When, in 1971, Massoud ...
(1934–1990) an Iranian human rights advocate. He was shot dead whilst driving to his home in Coppet
* Heikki Kovalainen
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(born 1981), Finnish racing driver
* Timo Glock
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(born 1982), German racing driver
Politics
In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SVP which received 25.31% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the LPS Party (16.24%), the FDP (14.05%) and the Green Party
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(13.53%). In the federal election, a total of 643 votes were cast, and the voter turnout
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was 49.0%.
In the 2019 federal election the most popular party was the Free Democratic Party, receiving 29.4% of the vote, followed by the Swiss People's Party
The Swiss People's Party (german: Schweizerische Volkspartei, SVP; rm, Partida populara Svizra, PPS), also known as the Democratic Union of the Centre (french: Union démocratique du centre, UDC; it, Unione Democratica di Centro, UDC), is a nati ...
(18.2%), the Green Liberal Party (15.4%), the Socialist Party
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(14.7%) and the Green Party
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Greens believe that these issues are inherently related to one another as a foundation ...
(14.5%). The number of votes cast was 711, for a voter turnout of 46.3%.
Economy
, Coppet had an unemployment rate of 4.4%. , there were 4 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 3 businesses involved in this sector. 114 people were employed in the secondary sector
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and there were 14 businesses in this sector. 676 people were employed in the tertiary sector
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, with 117 businesses in this sector.[ There were 1,183 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 43.4% of the workforce.
the total number of ]full-time equivalent
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jobs was 672. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 3, of which were in agriculture and 3 were in fishing or fisheries. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 110 of which 49 or (44.5%) were in manufacturing and 60 (54.5%) were in construction. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 559. In the tertiary sector; 73 or 13.1% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 21 or 3.8% were in the movement and storage of goods, 43 or 7.7% were in a hotel or restaurant, 8 or 1.4% were in the information industry, 11 or 2.0% were the insurance or financial industry, 36 or 6.4% were technical professionals or scientists, 76 or 13.6% were in education and 224 or 40.1% were in health care.
, there were 427 workers who commuted into the municipality and 919 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 2.2 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering. About 15.0% of the workforce coming into Coppet are coming from outside Switzerland, while 0.2% of the locals commute out of Switzerland for work.[Swiss Federal Statistical Office - Statweb]
accessed 24 June 2010 Of the working population, 14.4% used public transportation to get to work, and 70.2% used a private car.[
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Religion
From the , 880 or 37.3% were Roman Catholic
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, while 703 or 29.8% 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 ...
. Of the rest of the population, there were 25 members of an Orthodox church (or about 1.06% of the population), and there were 90 individuals (or about 3.81% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There were 18 individuals (or about 0.76% of the population) who were Jewish
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, and 52 (or about 2.20% of the population) who were Islam
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ic. There were 12 individuals who were Buddhist
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, 2 individuals who were Hindu
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and 2 individuals who belonged to another church. 421 (or about 17.84% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic
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or atheist
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, and 190 individuals (or about 8.05% of the population) did not answer the question.[
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Education
In Coppet about 633 or (26.8%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 664 or (28.1%) have completed additional higher education (either university
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or a ''Fachhochschule
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''). Of the 664 who completed tertiary schooling, 33.6% were Swiss men, 22.7% were Swiss women, 27.3% were non-Swiss men and 16.4% were non-Swiss women.[
In the 2009/2010 school year there were a total of 273 students in the Coppet 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 1,249 children of which 563 children (45.1%) received subsidized pre-school care. The canton's primary school
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program requires students to attend for four years. There were 154 students in the municipal primary school program. The obligatory lower secondary school program lasts for six years and there were 119 students in those schools.[Canton of Vaud Statistical Office - Scol. obligatoire/filières de transition]
accessed 2 May 2011
Coppet is home to the ''Château de Coppet'' and the ''Musée de Coppet''.[Canton of Vaud Statistical Office - Fréquentation de quelques musées et fondations, Vaud, 2001-2018]
accessed 10 Sep 2020 In 2018 the ''Château de Coppet'' was visited by 3,167 visitors (the average in the previous three years was 5,988). In 2018 the ''Musée de Coppet'' was visited by 680 visitors (the average in the previous three years was 1,188).
, there were 616 students in Coppet who came from another municipality, while 267 residents attended schools outside the municipality.[
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