Chandolin is a village in the district of
Sierre
Sierre (; ; ) is the capital municipality of the district of Sierre, located in the canton of Valais, Switzerland. It has a population of 18,020.
Sierre is nicknamed City of the Sun () for its average of 300 days of sunshine a year.
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in the
Swiss
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canton of
Valais
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. An independent
municipality
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before, it merged on 1 January 2009 with neighboring
Ayer,
Grimentz,
Saint Jean,
Saint-Luc and
Vissoie to form the municipality of
Anniviers
Anniviers is a municipality in the district of Sierre in the canton of Valais in Switzerland. It was formed through the merger of six municipalities in Val d'Anniviers: Ayer, Chandolin, Grimentz, Saint-Jean, Saint-Luc and Vissoie. The mer ...
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[Amtliches Gemeindeverzeichnis der Schweiz]
published by the Swiss Federal Statistical Office accessed 19 July 2011
History
Chandolin is first mentioned about 1250 as ''Eschandulyns''.
[ Chandolin was the permanent home of Swiss travel writer Ella Maillart until her death, and it now houses the Ella Maillart Museum in her memory.
]
Coat of arms
The blazon
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of the village coat of arms
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is ''Azure, a Chamois rampant Sable over a rock Argent in chief sinister a Mullet of Five Or.''
Demographics
Most of the population () speaks French (81 or 85.3%) as their first language, German
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is the second most common (8 or 8.4%) and Portuguese is the third (4 or 4.2%).[
Of the population in the village, 28 or about 29.5% were born in Chandolin and lived there in 2000. There were 29 or 30.5% who were born in the same canton, while 18 or 18.9% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 20 or 21.1% were born outside of Switzerland.][ , there were 32 people who were single and never married in the village. There were 58 married individuals, 1 widows or widowers and 4 individuals who are divorced.][STAT-TAB Datenwürfel für Thema 40.3 - 2000]
accessed 2 February 2011
There were 13 households that consist of only one person and 2 households with five or more people. , a total of 42 apartments (9.6% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 340 apartments (77.4%) were seasonally occupied and 57 apartments (13.0%) were empty.[Swiss Federal Statistical Office STAT-TAB - Datenwürfel für Thema 09.2 - Gebäude und Wohnungen]
accessed 28 January 2011
The historical population is given in the following chart:
Politics
In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the CVP which received 39.22% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SVP (26.05%), the Green Party
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(10.64%) and the FDP (7.84%). In the federal election, a total of 57 votes were cast, and the voter turnout
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was 64.8%.
Economy
There were 57 residents of the village who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 38.6% of the workforce. the total number of full-time equivalent
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jobs was 32. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 2, all of which were in agriculture. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 4 of which 1 was in manufacturing and 3 were in construction. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 26. In the tertiary sector; 5 or 19.2% were in the sale or repair of motor vehicles, 15 or 57.7% were in a hotel or restaurant, .Swiss Federal Statistical Office STAT-TAB Betriebszählung: Arbeitsstätten nach Gemeinde und NOGA 2008 (Abschnitte), Sektoren 1-3
accessed 28 January 2011
, there were 11 workers who commuted into the village and 17 workers who commuted away. The village is a net exporter of workers, with about 1.5 workers leaving the village for every one entering.[Swiss Federal Statistical Office - Statweb]
accessed 24 June 2010
Religion
From the , 69 or 72.6% were Roman Catholic
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, while 12 or 12.6% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church
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. 10 (or about 10.53% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic
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or atheist
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, and 4 individuals (or about 4.21% of the population) did not answer the question.[
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Education
In Chandolin about 31 or (32.6%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 21 or (22.1%) have completed additional higher education (either University
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or a ''Fachhochschule
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''). Of the 21 who completed tertiary schooling, 66.7% were Swiss men, 9.5% were Swiss women.[
, there were 13 students from Chandolin who attended schools outside the village.][
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References
External links
Official website
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Former municipalities of Valais
Villages in Valais
Ski areas and resorts in Switzerland
Anniviers