Cressier, Fribourg
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Cressier (; , or ) is a
municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality' ...
in the district of See or du Lac in the
canton Canton may refer to: Administrative divisions * Canton (administrative division), territorial/administrative division in some countries * Township (Canada), known as ''canton'' in Canadian French Arts and entertainment * Canton (band), an It ...
of
Fribourg or is the capital of the Cantons of Switzerland, Swiss canton of Canton of Fribourg, Fribourg and district of Sarine (district), La Sarine. Located on both sides of the river Saane/Sarine, on the Swiss Plateau, it is a major economic, adminis ...
in
Switzerland Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe. It is bordered by Italy to the south, France to the west, Germany to the north, and Austria and Liechtenstein to the east. Switzerland ...
.


History

Cressier is first mentioned in 1080 as ''Crisei''. The municipality was formerly known by its German name ''Grissach'', however, that name is no longer used.


Geography

Cressier has an area, , of . Of this area, or 69.1% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 19.4% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 10.8% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.2% is either rivers or lakes.Swiss Federal Statistical Office-Land Use Statistics
2009 data accessed 25 March 2010
Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 1.4% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 4.8% and transportation infrastructure made up 4.3%. Out of the forested land, 17.7% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.7% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 56.6% is used for growing crops and 10.1% is pastures, while 2.4% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is flowing water. The municipality is located in the See/Lac district.


Coat of arms

The
blazon In heraldry and heraldic vexillology, a blazon is a formal description of a coat of arms, flag or similar emblem, from which the reader can reconstruct an accurate image. The verb ''to blazon'' means to create such a description. The visual d ...
of the municipal
coat of arms A coat of arms is a heraldry, heraldic communication design, visual design on an escutcheon (heraldry), escutcheon (i.e., shield), surcoat, or tabard (the last two being outer garments), originating in Europe. The coat of arms on an escutcheon f ...
is ''Sable, a Horse Argent trotting harnessed Or.''


Demographics

Cressier has a population () of . , 22.1% 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 (2000–2010) the population has changed at a rate of 14.3%. Migration accounted for 11.1%, while births and deaths accounted for 5.3%.
accessed 13-December-2011
Most of the population () speaks
French French may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to France ** French language, which originated in France ** French people, a nation and ethnic group ** French cuisine, cooking traditions and practices Arts and media * The French (band), ...
(394 or 54.0%) as their first language,
German German(s) may refer to: * Germany, the country of the Germans and German things **Germania (Roman era) * Germans, citizens of Germany, people of German ancestry, or native speakers of the German language ** For citizenship in Germany, see also Ge ...
is the second most common (292 or 40.1%) and Portuguese is the third (14 or 1.9%). There are 5 people who speak
Italian Italian(s) may refer to: * Anything of, from, or related to the people of Italy over the centuries ** Italians, a Romance ethnic group related to or simply a citizen of the Italian Republic or Italian Kingdom ** Italian language, a Romance languag ...
. , the population was 51.3% male and 48.7% female. The population was made up of 336 Swiss men (40.0% of the population) and 95 (11.3%) non-Swiss men. There were 318 Swiss women (37.9%) and 91 (10.8%) non-Swiss women.Canton of Fribourg Statistics
accessed 3 November 2011
Of the population in the municipality, 196 or about 26.9% were born in Cressier and lived there in 2000. There were 226 or 31.0% who were born in the same canton, while 178 or 24.4% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 108 or 14.8% were born outside of Switzerland. , children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 27% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 62.1% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 10.8%. , there were 327 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 337 married individuals, 30 widows or widowers and 35 individuals who are divorced.STAT-TAB Datenwürfel für Thema 40.3 - 2000
accessed 2 February 2011
, there were 298 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.4 persons per household. There were 85 households that consist of only one person and 22 households with five or more people. , a total of 273 apartments (87.5% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 36 apartments (11.5%) were seasonally occupied and 3 apartments (1.0%) were empty.Swiss Federal Statistical Office STAT-TAB - Datenwürfel für Thema 09.2 - Gebäude und Wohnungen
accessed 28 January 2011


Heritage sites of national significance

The
Mansion A mansion is a large dwelling house. The word itself derives through Old French from the Latin word ''mansio'' "dwelling", an abstract noun derived from the verb ''manere'' "to dwell". The English word ''manse'' originally defined a property l ...
De Reynold is listed as a Swiss heritage site of national significance. The entire village of Cressier 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 Types The types are based on t ...
.


Politics

In the 2011 federal election the most popular party was the SPS which received 27.0% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SVP (19.3%), the CVP (14.6%) and the FDP (10.3%).Canton of Fribourg National Council Election of 23 October 2011 Statistics
accessed 3 November 2011
The SPS improved their position in Cressier rising to first, from second in 2007 (with 22.1%) The SVP moved from third in 2007 (with 20.6%) to second in 2011, the CVP moved from first in 2007 (with 22.1%) to third and the FDP moved from below fourth place in 2007 to fourth. A total of 274 votes were cast in this election.


Economy

, Cressier had an unemployment rate of 2.2%. , there were 17 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 7 businesses involved in this sector. 439 people were employed in the
secondary sector In macroeconomics, the secondary sector of the economy is an economic sector in the three-sector theory that describes the role of manufacturing. It encompasses industries that produce a finished, usable product or are involved in constructi ...
and there were 9 businesses in this sector. 99 people were employed in the
tertiary sector The tertiary sector of the economy, generally known as the service sector, is the third of the three economic sectors in the three-sector model (also known as the economic cycle). The others are the primary sector (raw materials) and the ...
, with 25 businesses in this sector. There were 398 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 43.2% of the workforce. the total number of
full-time equivalent Full-time equivalent (FTE), or whole time equivalent (WTE), is a unit of measurement that indicates the workload of an employed person (or student) in a way that makes workloads or class loads comparable across various contexts. FTE is often use ...
jobs was 475. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 13, all of which were in agriculture. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 385 of which 358 or (93.0%) were in manufacturing and 6 (1.6%) were in construction. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 77. In the tertiary sector; 46 or 59.7% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 7 or 9.1% were in the movement and storage of goods, 7 or 9.1% were in a hotel or restaurant, 2 or 2.6% were technical professionals or scientists, 5 or 6.5% were in education. , there were 378 workers who commuted into the municipality and 299 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net importer of workers, with about 1.3 workers entering the municipality for every one leaving.Swiss Federal Statistical Office - Statweb
accessed 24 June 2010
Of the working population, 16.1% used public transportation to get to work, and 67.1% used a private car.


Religion

From the , 426 or 58.4% were
Roman Catholic The Catholic Church (), also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.27 to 1.41 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2025. It is among the world's oldest and largest international institut ...
, while 183 or 25.1% belonged to the
Swiss Reformed Church The Protestant Church in Switzerland (PCS), formerly named Federation of Swiss Protestant Churches until 31 December 2019, is a federation of 25 member churches – 24 cantonal churches and the Evangelical-Methodist Church of Switzerland. The P ...
. Of the rest of the population, there were 2 members of an Orthodox church (or about 0.27% of the population), and there were 80 individuals (or about 10.97% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There were 8 (or about 1.10% of the population) who were
Islam Islam is an Abrahamic religions, Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the Quran, and the teachings of Muhammad. Adherents of Islam are called Muslims, who are estimated to number Islam by country, 2 billion worldwide and are the world ...
ic. There was 1 person who was
Hindu Hindus (; ; also known as Sanātanīs) are people who religiously adhere to Hinduism, also known by its endonym Sanātana Dharma. Jeffery D. Long (2007), A Vision for Hinduism, IB Tauris, , pp. 35–37 Historically, the term has also be ...
. 58 (or about 7.96% of the population) belonged to no church, are
agnostic Agnosticism is the view or belief that the existence of God, the divine, or the supernatural is either unknowable in principle or unknown in fact. (page 56 in 1967 edition) It can also mean an apathy towards such religious belief and refer to ...
or
atheist Atheism, in the broadest sense, is an absence of belief in the existence of deities. Less broadly, atheism is a rejection of the belief that any deities exist. In an even narrower sense, atheism is specifically the position that there no ...
, and 11 individuals (or about 1.51% of the population) did not answer the question.


Education

In Cressier about 263 or (36.1%) of the population have completed non-mandatory
upper secondary education Secondary education is the education level following primary education and preceding tertiary education. Level 2 or ''lower secondary education'' (less commonly ''junior secondary education'') is considered the second and final phase of basic e ...
, and 109 or (15.0%) have completed additional higher education (either
university A university () is an educational institution, institution of tertiary education and research which awards academic degrees in several Discipline (academia), academic disciplines. ''University'' is derived from the Latin phrase , which roughly ...
or a ''
Fachhochschule A (; plural ), abbreviated FH, is a university of applied sciences (UAS), in other words a Hochschule, German tertiary education institution that provides professional education in many applied sciences and applied arts, such as engineering, te ...
''). Of the 109 who completed tertiary schooling, 61.5% were Swiss men, 19.3% were Swiss women, 11.0% were non-Swiss men and 8.3% were non-Swiss women. The Canton of Fribourg school system provides one year of non-obligatory
Kindergarten Kindergarten is a preschool educational approach based on playing, singing, practical activities such as drawing, and social interaction as part of the transition from home to school. Such institutions were originally made in the late 18th cen ...
, 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 Apprenticeship is a system for training a potential new practitioners of a trade or profession with on-the-job training and often some accompanying study. Apprenticeships may also enable practitioners to gain a license to practice in a regulat ...
.Chart of the education system in Canton Fribourg
During the 2010-11 school year, there were a total of 75 students attending 5 classes in Cressier. A total of 153 students from the municipality attended any school, either in the municipality or outside of it. There was one kindergarten class with a total of 14 students in the municipality. The municipality had 4 primary classes and 61 students. During the same year, there were no lower secondary classes in the municipality, but 37 students attended lower secondary school in a neighboring municipality. There were no upper Secondary classes or vocational classes, but there were 20 upper Secondary students and 18 upper Secondary vocational students who attended classes in another municipality. The municipality had no non-university Tertiary classes, but there were 2 specialized Tertiary students who attended classes in another municipality. , there were 7 students in Cressier who came from another municipality, while 57 residents attended schools outside the municipality.


Transportation

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


References


External links


Official website
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