Hauteville (; frp, Hôtavela ) is a

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within the district of Gruyère in the

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Fribourg , neighboring_municipalities= Düdingen, Givisiez, Granges-Paccot, Marly, Pierrafortscha, Sankt Ursen, Tafers, Villars-sur-Glâne , twintowns = Rueil-Malmaison (France) , website = www.ville-fribourg.ch , Location of , Location of () () o ...

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

Hauteville is first mentioned in 1148 as ''apud Altam villam''. In 1227 it was mentioned as ''Jocelnus de Altaville''.

Geography

Hauteville has an area, , of . Of this area, or 51.0% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 43.7% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 4.8% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.5% is either rivers or lakes and or 0.3% is unproductive land.Swiss Federal Statistical Office-Land Use Statistics
2009 data accessed 25 March 2010 Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 2.4% and transportation infrastructure made up 1.9%. Out of the forested land, 39.6% of the total land area is heavily forested and 4.1% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 27.8% is pastures and 23.2% is used for alpine pastures. Of the water in the municipality, 0.3% is in lakes and 0.2% is in rivers and streams. The municipality is located in the Gruyère district, on the eastern shore of

Lake of Gruyère Lake of Gruyère (french: Lac de la Gruyère; german: Lac de la Gruyère or ) is an artificial lake in the La Gruyère region of the Canton of Fribourg, Switzerland. The reservoir was formed between the cities of Bulle and Fribourg, by building ...

. It consists of the village of Hauteville and the

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of Impart, Le Ru and Longemort.

Coat of arms

The

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of the municipal

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is ''Gules a bend Argent overall a Palm Branch Vert in pale.''

Demographics

Hauteville has a population () of . , 9.0% 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 (2000–2010) the population has changed at a rate of 23.7%. Migration accounted for 15.4%, while births and deaths accounted for 10.3%.
accessed 28-November-2011 Most of the population () speaks

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(427 or 92.0%) as their first language,

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is the second most common (24 or 5.2%) and

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is the third (7 or 1.5%). There is 1 person who speaks

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. , the population was 49.5% male and 50.5% female. The population was made up of 245 Swiss men (44.8% of the population) and 26 (4.8%) non-Swiss men. There were 254 Swiss women (46.4%) and 22 (4.0%) non-Swiss women.Canton of Fribourg Statistics
accessed 3 November 2011 Of the population in the municipality, 167 or about 36.0% were born in Hauteville and lived there in 2000. There were 186 or 40.1% who were born in the same canton, while 60 or 12.9% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 37 or 8.0% were born outside of Switzerland. , children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 27.8% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 58.4% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 13.8%. , there were 220 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 198 married individuals, 26 widows or widowers and 20 individuals who are divorced.STAT-TAB Datenwürfel für Thema 40.3 - 2000
accessed 2 February 2011 , there were 180 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.5 persons per household. There were 51 households that consist of only one person and 14 households with five or more people. , a total of 172 apartments (73.5% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 54 apartments (23.1%) were seasonally occupied and 8 apartments (3.4%) were empty.Swiss Federal Statistical Office STAT-TAB - Datenwürfel für Thema 09.2 - Gebäude und Wohnungen
accessed 28 January 2011 , the construction rate of new housing units was 7.2 new units per 1000 residents. The vacancy rate for the municipality, , was 0.37%. The historical population is given in the following chart: Colors= id:lightgrey value:gray(0.9) id:darkgrey value:gray(0.8) ImageSize = width:960 height:210 PlotArea = height:150 left:100 bottom:50 right:100 AlignBars = justify DateFormat = x.y Period = from:0 till:580 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:1850 from:start till:500 text:"500" bar:1860 from:start till:573 text:"573" bar:1870 from:start till:484 text:"484" bar:1880 from:start till:463 text:"463" bar:1888 from:start till:496 text:"496" bar:1900 from:start till:533 text:"533" bar:1910 from:start till:476 text:"476" bar:1920 from:start till:423 text:"423" bar:1930 from:start till:491 text:"491" bar:1941 from:start till:522 text:"522" bar:1950 from:start till:448 text:"448" bar:1960 from:start till:357 text:"357" bar:1970 from:start till:333 text:"333" bar:1980 from:start till:312 text:"312" bar:1990 from:start till:363 text:"363" bar:2000 from:start till:464 text:"464"

Heritage sites of national significance

The Farm House at Route de l'Église 47 is listed as a Swiss heritage site of national significance.

Politics

In the 2011 federal election the most popular party was the SVP which received 29.7% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SP (23.3%), the CVP (19.6%) and the FDP (12.9%).Canton of Fribourg National Council Election of 23 October 2011 Statistics
accessed 3 November 2011 The SVP received about the same percentage of the vote as they did in the

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(31.4% in 2007 vs 29.7% in 2011). The SPS moved from third in 2007 (with 17.8%) to second in 2011, the CVP moved from second in 2007 (with 24.8%) to third and the FDP retained about the same popularity (13.1% in 2007). A total of 168 votes were cast in this election, of which 2 or 1.2% were invalid.

Economy

, Hauteville had an unemployment rate of 2%. , there were 26 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 12 businesses involved in this sector. 8 people were employed in the

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and there were 4 businesses in this sector. 34 people were employed in the

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, with 9 businesses in this sector. There were 225 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 41.8% of the workforce. the total number of

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jobs was 50. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 17, all of which were in agriculture. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 8 of which 7 or (87.5%) were in manufacturing and 1 was in construction. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 25. In the tertiary sector; 2 or 8.0% were in the movement and storage of goods, 8 or 32.0% were in a hotel or restaurant, 10 or 40.0% were in the information industry, 1 was the insurance or financial industry, 2 or 8.0% were in education. , there were 10 workers who commuted into the municipality and 169 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 16.9 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering.Swiss Federal Statistical Office - Statweb
accessed 24 June 2010 Of the working population, 7.6% used public transportation to get to work, and 75.1% used a private car.

Religion

From the , 368 or 79.3% were

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, while 41 or 8.8% 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 5 individuals (or about 1.08% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There were 2 individuals who were

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. 29 (or about 6.25% of the population) belonged to no church, are

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, and 21 individuals (or about 4.53% of the population) did not answer the question.

Education

In Hauteville about 128 or (27.6%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 52 or (11.2%) have completed additional higher education (either

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or a ''

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''). Of the 52 who completed tertiary schooling, 46.2% were Swiss men, 30.8% were Swiss women, 15.4% were non-Swiss men. The Canton of Fribourg school system provides one year of non-obligatory

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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

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.Chart of the education system in Canton Fribourg
During the 2010-11 school year, there were a total of 33 students attending 2 classes in Hauteville. A total of 95 students from the municipality attended any school, either in the municipality or outside of it. There was one kindergarten class with a total of 17 students in the municipality. The municipality had one primary class and 16 students. During the same year, there were no lower secondary classes in the municipality, but 19 students attended lower secondary school in a neighboring municipality. There were no upper Secondary classes or vocational classes, but there were 3 upper Secondary students and 14 upper Secondary vocational students who attended classes in another municipality. The municipality had no non-university Tertiary classes, but there was one specialized Tertiary student who attended classes in another municipality. , there were 18 students in Hauteville who came from another municipality, while 56 residents attended schools outside the municipality.

References

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