Mont-sur-Rolle (, literally ''Mont on
Rolle
Rolle () is a Municipalities of Switzerland, municipality in the Cantons of Switzerland, Canton of Vaud in Switzerland. It was the seat of the district of Rolle (district), Rolle until 2006, when it became part of the district of Nyon District, N ...
'') is a
municipality
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in the district of
Nyon
Nyon (; outdated German language, German: or ; outdated Italian language, Italian: , ) is a Municipalities of Switzerland, municipality in Nyon District in the Cantons of Switzerland, canton of Vaud in Switzerland. It is located some 25 kilomet ...
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 ...
. It is located from the shores of
Lac Léman
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(Lake Geneva), above the lake-side town of Rolle. The area is famed for its wine-making fields which has a distinctive fizzy-fruit flavour.
History
Mont-sur-Rolle is first mentioned around 994-1021 as ''Monte''.
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Geography
Mont-sur-Rolle has an area, , of . Of this area, or 58.4% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 14.8% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 26.8% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.3% 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 11.4% and transportation infrastructure made up 7.0%. Power and water infrastructure as well as other special developed areas made up 2.9% of the area while parks, green belts and sports fields made up 5.5%. Out of the forested land, 11.7% of the total land area is heavily forested and 3.1% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 15.8% is used for growing crops and 7.5% is pastures, while 35.1% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is in lakes.[
The municipality was part of the ]Rolle District Rolle District was a district of the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. The seat of the district was the city of Rolle until January 1, 2008. It is now part of Nyon District, except the town of Allaman which is now part of the Morges District.
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until it was dissolved on 31 August 2006, and Mont-sur-Rolle became part of the new district of Nyon.[Nomenklaturen – Amtliches Gemeindeverzeichnis der Schweiz]
accessed 4 April 2011
The municipality consists of the village of Mont-sur-Rolle and the hamlets
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of L'Abbaye, Crochet, Germagny, Haute-Cour and Mont-Dessus.
Coat of arms
The blazon
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of the municipal coat of arms
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is ''Tierced per bend sinister Vert, Gules, Or, in base a Mount Vert.''
Demographics
Mont-sur-Rolle has a population () of . , 25.4% 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 38.5%. It has changed at a rate of 32.6% due to migration and at a rate of 6.7% due to births and deaths.
accessed 11-August-2011German
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**Germania (historical use)
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being second most common (112 or 6.2%) and English
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* English language
* English people
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* ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England
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being third (53 or 3.0%). There are 50 people who speak Italian
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.[
The age distribution, , in Mont-sur-Rolle is; 322 children or 13.7% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 295 teenagers or 12.6% are between 10 and 19. Of the adult population, 201 people or 8.6% of the population are between 20 and 29 years old. 370 people or 15.8% are between 30 and 39, 443 people or 18.9% are between 40 and 49, and 314 people or 13.4% are between 50 and 59. The senior population distribution is 206 people or 8.8% of the population are between 60 and 69 years old, 129 people or 5.5% are between 70 and 79, there are 52 people or 2.2% who are between 80 and 89, and there are 14 people or 0.6% who are 90 and older.][Canton of Vaud Statistical Office]
accessed 29 April 2011
, there were 718 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 900 married individuals, 67 widows or widowers and 111 individuals who are divorced.[STAT-TAB Datenwürfel für Thema 40.3 - 2000]
accessed 2 February 2011
, there were 717 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.4 persons per household.[ There were 204 households that consist of only one person and 38 households with five or more people. Out of a total of 733 households that answered this question, 27.8% were households made up of just one person and there were 7 adults who lived with their parents. Of the rest of the households, there are 196 married couples without children, 258 married couples with children There were 43 single parents with a child or children. There were 9 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 210 single family homes (or 56.1% of the total) out of a total of 374 inhabited buildings. There were 85 multi-family buildings (22.7%), along with 67 multi-purpose buildings that were mostly used for housing (17.9%) and 12 other use buildings (commercial or industrial) that also had some housing (3.2%).][Swiss Federal Statistical Office STAT-TAB - Datenwürfel für Thema 09.2 - Gebäude und Wohnungen]
accessed 28 January 2011
, a total of 695 apartments (84.0% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 111 apartments (13.4%) were seasonally occupied and 21 apartments (2.5%) were empty.[ , the construction rate of new housing units was 3.8 new units per 1000 residents.][ The vacancy rate for the municipality, , was 1.74%.][
The historical population is given in the following chart:]
Sights
The entire village of Mont-sur-Rolle is designated as 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 – sister cities
Mont-sur-Rolle is twinned with:
* Prarostino, Italy
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Politics
In the 2007 federal election
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the most popular party was the SVP which received 28.9% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the FDP (19.41%), the SP (16.34%) and the Green Party
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(11.61%). In the federal election, a total of 569 votes were cast, and the voter turnout
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was 45.9%.
Economy
, Mont-sur-Rolle had an unemployment rate of 5%. , there were 145 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 36 businesses involved in this sector. 22 people were employed in the secondary sector
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and there were 7 businesses in this sector. 106 people were employed in the tertiary sector
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, with 26 businesses in this sector.[ There were 937 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 44.9% of the workforce.
the total number of ]full-time equivalent
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jobs was 223. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 119, all of which were in agriculture. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 21 of which 8 or (38.1%) were in manufacturing and 13 (61.9%) were in construction. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 83. In the tertiary sector; 2 or 2.4% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 5 or 6.0% were in the movement and storage of goods, 5 or 6.0% were in a hotel or restaurant, 2 or 2.4% were in the information industry, 6 or 7.2% were the insurance or financial industry, 10 or 12.0% were technical professionals or scientists, 15 or 18.1% were in education and 33 or 39.8% were in health care.
, there were 179 workers who commuted into the municipality and 761 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 4.3 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering. About 5.6% of the workforce coming into Mont-sur-Rolle are coming from outside Switzerland.[Swiss Federal Statistical Office - Statweb]
accessed 24 June 2010 Of the working population, 14.4% used public transportation to get to work, and 66.9% used a private car.[
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Religion
From the , 525 or 29.2% were Roman Catholic
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, while 781 or 43.5% 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 26 members of an Orthodox church (or about 1.45% of the population), there was 1 individual who belongs to the Christian Catholic Church, and there were 136 individuals (or about 7.57% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There was 1 individual who was Jewish
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, and 8 (or about 0.45% of the population) who were Islam
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ic. There were 5 individuals who were Buddhist
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and 4 individuals who belonged to another church. 263 (or about 14.64% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic
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or atheist
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, and 112 individuals (or about 6.24% of the population) did not answer the question.[
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Education
In Mont-sur-Rolle about 625 or (34.8%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 341 or (19.0%) have completed additional higher education (either university
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or a ''Fachhochschule
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''). Of the 341 who completed tertiary schooling, 44.6% were Swiss men, 28.4% were Swiss women, 13.2% were non-Swiss men and 13.8% were non-Swiss women.[
In the 2009/2010 school year there were a total of 310 students in the Mont-sur-Rolle 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 159 students in the municipal primary school program. The obligatory lower secondary school program lasts for six years and there were 146 students in those schools. There were also 5 students who were home schooled or attended another non-traditional school.[Canton of Vaud Statistical Office - Scol. obligatoire/filières de transition]
accessed 2 May 2011
, there were 131 students in Mont-sur-Rolle who came from another municipality, while 169 residents attended schools outside the municipality.[
]La Côte International School
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was previously in Mont-sur-Rolle.[Our Story and Our Vision]
Archive
. La Côte International School
La Côte International School Aubonne (LCIS) is a private, co-educational international school in Aubonne, Switzerland, serving both international and local families with children aged 3-18 years old. The school is a part of the Nord Anglia Educ ...
. Retrieved on March 6, 2016.
Notable residents
*Fernando Alonso
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, Spanish Formula One
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driver
References
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