Cheiry
Encyclopedia
Cheiry is a municipality
in the district of Broye
in the canton
of Fribourg in Switzerland
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Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 2.5% and transportation infrastructure made up 3.4%. Out of the forested land, 24.4% of the total land area is heavily forested and 2.8% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 42.7% is used for growing crops and 22.4% is pastures.
The municipality is located in the Broye district, in the Surpierre exclave.
of the municipal coat of arms
is Per fess, Or a Semi-Eagle displayed issuant Gules, and Azure three Plates.
Most of the population speaks French
(244 or 91.4%) as their first language, German
is the second most common (11 or 4.1%) and English
is the third (5 or 1.9%).
, the population was 51.1% male and 48.9% female. The population was made up of 179 Swiss men (49.2% of the population) and 7 (1.9%) non-Swiss men. There were 172 Swiss women (47.3%) and 6 (1.6%) non-Swiss women. Of the population in the municipality, 106 or about 39.7% were born in Cheiry and lived there in 2000. There were 52 or 19.5% who were born in the same canton, while 77 or 28.8% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 24 or 9.0% were born outside of Switzerland.
The age distribution, , in Cheiry is; 42 children or 12.7% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 55 teenagers or 16.6% are between 10 and 19. Of the adult population, 31 people or 9.4% of the population are between 20 and 29 years old. 54 people or 16.3% are between 30 and 39, 53 people or 16.0% are between 40 and 49, and 27 people or 8.2% are between 50 and 59. The senior population distribution is 26 people or 7.9% of the population are between 60 and 69 years old, 30 people or 9.1% are between 70 and 79, there are 11 people or 3.3% who are between 80 and 89, and there are 2 people or 0.6% who are 90 and older.
, there were 106 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 137 married individuals, 16 widows or widowers and 8 individuals who are divorced.
, there were 119 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.7 persons per household. There were 22 households that consist of only one person and 7 households with five or more people. , a total of 94 apartments (87.9% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 8 apartments (7.5%) were seasonally occupied and 5 apartments (4.7%) were empty.
The historical population is given in the following chart:
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the most popular party was the SVP
which received 32.8% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the CVP
(31.4%), the SP
(22.7%) and the FDP
(6.9%).
The SVP received about the same percentage of the vote as they did in the 2007 Federal election
(31.9% in 2007 vs 32.8% in 2011). The CVP increased in popularity (26.0% in 2007), the SPS increased in popularity (15.8% in 2007) and the FDP increased in popularity (14.8% in 2007). A total of 120 votes were cast in this election, of which 1 or 0.8% was invalid.
the total number of full-time equivalent
jobs was 52. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 31, all of which were in agriculture. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 6, all of which were in construction. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 15. In the tertiary sector; 2 or 13.3% were in the sale or repair of motor vehicles, 6 or 40.0% were in the movement and storage of goods, 3 or 20.0% were in a hotel or restaurant, 1 was in the information industry, 2 or 13.3% were in education.
, there were 10 workers who commuted into the municipality and 87 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 8.7 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering. Of the working population, 1.3% used public transportation to get to work, and 61.4% used a private car.
. Of the rest of the population, there were 3 members of an Orthodox church
(or about 1.12% of the population). There were 4 (or about 1.50% of the population) who were Islam
ic. There were 3 individuals who were Buddhist
and 1 individual who belonged to another church. 14 (or about 5.24% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic
or atheist
, and 4 individuals (or about 1.50% of the population) did not answer the question.
). Of the 13 who completed tertiary schooling, 53.8% were Swiss men, 38.5% were Swiss women.
The Canton of Fribourg school system provides one year of non-obligatory Kindergarten
, 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
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During the 2010-11 school year, there were a total of 43 students attending 2 classes in Cheiry. A total of 52 students from the municipality attended any school, either in the municipality or outside of it. There was one kindergarten class with a total of 19 students in the municipality. There was one primary class with a total of 24 students. There were no lower secondary classes in the municipality, but 11 students attended lower secondary school in a neighboring municipality. There were no upper Secondary classes or vocational classes, but there was one upper Secondary student and 6 upper Secondary vocational students who attended classes in another municipality. There were no non-university Tertiary classes, but there was one specialized Tertiary student who attended classes in another municipality.
, there were 6 students in Cheiry who came from another municipality, while 28 residents attended schools outside the municipality.
Municipalities of Switzerland
Communes , also known as municipalities, are the smallest government division in Switzerland, numbering 2,596 . While many have a population of a few hundred citizens, the largest cities such as Zürich or Geneva also have the legal status of municipalities...
in the district of Broye
Broye (district)
Broye District is a one of the seven districts of the Canton of Fribourg, Switzerland, lying in the vicinity of Lake Neuchâtel. Its territory is non-contiguous and Broye is fragmented into four parts, three of which exist as exclaves from the canton of Fribourg...
in the canton
Cantons of Switzerland
The 26 cantons of Switzerland are the member states of the federal state of Switzerland. Each canton was a fully sovereign state with its own borders, army and currency from the Treaty of Westphalia until the establishment of the Swiss federal state in 1848...
of Fribourg in Switzerland
Switzerland
Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....
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History
Cheiry is first mentioned around 1184-85 as Chirie. Its territory was enlarged in 2005 with the formerly independent municipality ChapelleChapelle, Broye
Chapelle is a village and former municipality in the district of Broye in the canton of Fribourg, Switzerland.It was first recorded in 1363 as Cappella. It was named Chapelle-près-Surpierre until 1953, when the name changed to Chapelle....
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Geography
Cheiry has an area, , of 6.5 square kilometre. Of this area, 4.25 square kilometre or 65.6% is used for agricultural purposes, while 1.76 square kilometre or 27.2% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 0.45 square kilometre or 6.9% is settled (buildings or roads) and 0.02 km² (4.9 acre) or 0.3% is unproductive land.Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 2.5% and transportation infrastructure made up 3.4%. Out of the forested land, 24.4% of the total land area is heavily forested and 2.8% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 42.7% is used for growing crops and 22.4% is pastures.
The municipality is located in the Broye district, in the Surpierre exclave.
Coat of arms
The blazonBlazon
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of the municipal coat of arms
Coat of arms
A coat of arms is a unique heraldic design on a shield or escutcheon or on a surcoat or tabard used to cover and protect armour and to identify the wearer. Thus the term is often stated as "coat-armour", because it was anciently displayed on the front of a coat of cloth...
is Per fess, Or a Semi-Eagle displayed issuant Gules, and Azure three Plates.
Demographics
Cheiry has a population of . , 2.9% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (2000–2010) the population has changed at a rate of 4.6%. Migration accounted for 8.9%, while births and deaths accounted for -0.9%.Most of the population speaks French
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
(244 or 91.4%) as their first language, German
German language
German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
is the second most common (11 or 4.1%) and English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
is the third (5 or 1.9%).
, the population was 51.1% male and 48.9% female. The population was made up of 179 Swiss men (49.2% of the population) and 7 (1.9%) non-Swiss men. There were 172 Swiss women (47.3%) and 6 (1.6%) non-Swiss women. Of the population in the municipality, 106 or about 39.7% were born in Cheiry and lived there in 2000. There were 52 or 19.5% who were born in the same canton, while 77 or 28.8% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 24 or 9.0% were born outside of Switzerland.
The age distribution, , in Cheiry is; 42 children or 12.7% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 55 teenagers or 16.6% are between 10 and 19. Of the adult population, 31 people or 9.4% of the population are between 20 and 29 years old. 54 people or 16.3% are between 30 and 39, 53 people or 16.0% are between 40 and 49, and 27 people or 8.2% are between 50 and 59. The senior population distribution is 26 people or 7.9% of the population are between 60 and 69 years old, 30 people or 9.1% are between 70 and 79, there are 11 people or 3.3% who are between 80 and 89, and there are 2 people or 0.6% who are 90 and older.
, there were 106 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 137 married individuals, 16 widows or widowers and 8 individuals who are divorced.
, there were 119 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.7 persons per household. There were 22 households that consist of only one person and 7 households with five or more people. , a total of 94 apartments (87.9% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 8 apartments (7.5%) were seasonally occupied and 5 apartments (4.7%) were empty.
The historical population is given in the following chart:
Heritage sites of national significance
The Granary at Route Du Centre 21 A is listed as a Swiss heritage site of national significanceSwiss Inventory of Cultural Property of National and Regional Significance
The Swiss Inventory of Cultural Property of National and Regional Significance is a register of some 8,300 items of cultural property in Switzerland...
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Politics
In the 2011 federal electionSwiss federal election, 2011
Federal elections were held in Switzerland on 23 October 2011.All of the Federal Assembly were to be elected: all 200 seats in the National Council and all 46 seats in the Council of States....
the most popular party was the SVP
Swiss People's Party
The Swiss People's Party , also known as the Democratic Union of the Centre , is a conservative political party in Switzerland. Chaired by Toni Brunner, but spearheaded by Christoph Blocher, the party is the largest party in the Federal Assembly, with 58 members of the National Council and 6 of...
which received 32.8% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the CVP
Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland
The Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland is a Christian democratic political party in Switzerland. It is the fourth-largest party in the National Council, with 31 seats, and the largest in the Council of States, with 15 seats. It has one seat, that of Doris Leuthard, on the Swiss...
(31.4%), the SP
Social Democratic Party of Switzerland
The Social Democratic Party of Switzerland is the largest centre-left political party in Switzerland....
(22.7%) and the FDP
FDP.The Liberals
FDP.The Liberals is a classical liberal political party in Switzerland. It is the joint-largest party in the Federal Council, third-largest party in the National Council, and second-largest in the Council of States....
(6.9%).
The SVP received about the same percentage of the vote as they did in the 2007 Federal election
Swiss federal election, 2007
Elections to the Swiss Federal Assembly, the federal parliament of Switzerland, were held on Sunday, 21 October 2007. In a few cantons, a second round of the elections to the Council of States was held on 11 November, 18 November, and 25 November 2007...
(31.9% in 2007 vs 32.8% in 2011). The CVP increased in popularity (26.0% in 2007), the SPS increased in popularity (15.8% in 2007) and the FDP increased in popularity (14.8% in 2007). A total of 120 votes were cast in this election, of which 1 or 0.8% was invalid.
Economy
, Cheiry had an unemployment rate of 2.1%. , there were 51 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 16 businesses involved in this sector. 7 people were employed in the secondary sector and there was 1 business in this sector. 19 people were employed in the tertiary sector, with 8 businesses in this sector. There were 125 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 44.0% of the workforce.the total number of full-time equivalent
Full-time equivalent
Full-time equivalent , is a unit to measure employed persons or students in a way that makes them comparable although they may work or study a different number of hours per week. FTE is often used to measure a worker's involvement in a project, or to track cost reductions in an organization...
jobs was 52. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 31, all of which were in agriculture. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 6, all of which were in construction. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 15. In the tertiary sector; 2 or 13.3% were in the sale or repair of motor vehicles, 6 or 40.0% were in the movement and storage of goods, 3 or 20.0% were in a hotel or restaurant, 1 was in the information industry, 2 or 13.3% were in education.
, there were 10 workers who commuted into the municipality and 87 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 8.7 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering. Of the working population, 1.3% used public transportation to get to work, and 61.4% used a private car.
Religion
From the , 189 or 70.8% were Roman Catholic, while 49 or 18.4% belonged to the Swiss Reformed ChurchSwiss Reformed Church
The Reformed branch of Protestantism in Switzerland was started in Zürich by Huldrych Zwingli and spread within a few years to Basel , Bern , St...
. Of the rest of the population, there were 3 members of an Orthodox church
Orthodox Christianity
The term Orthodox Christianity may refer to:* the Eastern Orthodox Church and its various geographical subdivisions...
(or about 1.12% of the population). There were 4 (or about 1.50% of the population) who were Islam
Islam
Islam . The most common are and . : Arabic pronunciation varies regionally. The first vowel ranges from ~~. The second vowel ranges from ~~~...
ic. There were 3 individuals who were Buddhist
Buddhism
Buddhism is a religion and philosophy encompassing a variety of traditions, beliefs and practices, largely based on teachings attributed to Siddhartha Gautama, commonly known as the Buddha . The Buddha lived and taught in the northeastern Indian subcontinent some time between the 6th and 4th...
and 1 individual who belonged to another church. 14 (or about 5.24% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic
Agnosticism
Agnosticism is the view that the truth value of certain claims—especially claims about the existence or non-existence of any deity, but also other religious and metaphysical claims—is unknown or unknowable....
or atheist
Atheism
Atheism is, in a broad sense, the rejection of belief in the existence of deities. In a narrower sense, atheism is specifically the position that there are no deities...
, and 4 individuals (or about 1.50% of the population) did not answer the question.
Education
In Cheiry about 88 or (33.0%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 13 or (4.9%) have completed additional higher education (either university or a FachhochschuleFachhochschule
A Fachhochschule or University of Applied Sciences is a German type of tertiary education institution, sometimes specialized in certain topical areas . Fachhochschulen were founded in Germany and later adopted by Austria, Liechtenstein, Switzerland and Greece...
). Of the 13 who completed tertiary schooling, 53.8% were Swiss men, 38.5% were Swiss women.
The Canton of Fribourg school system provides one year of non-obligatory Kindergarten
Kindergarten
A kindergarten is a preschool educational institution for children. The term was created by Friedrich Fröbel for the play and activity institute that he created in 1837 in Bad Blankenburg as a social experience for children for their transition from home to school...
, 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
Gymnasium (school)
A gymnasium is a type of school providing secondary education in some parts of Europe, comparable to English grammar schools or sixth form colleges and U.S. college preparatory high schools. The word γυμνάσιον was used in Ancient Greece, meaning a locality for both physical and intellectual...
(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
Apprenticeship is a system of training a new generation of practitioners of a skill. Apprentices or protégés build their careers from apprenticeships...
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During the 2010-11 school year, there were a total of 43 students attending 2 classes in Cheiry. A total of 52 students from the municipality attended any school, either in the municipality or outside of it. There was one kindergarten class with a total of 19 students in the municipality. There was one primary class with a total of 24 students. There were no lower secondary classes in the municipality, but 11 students attended lower secondary school in a neighboring municipality. There were no upper Secondary classes or vocational classes, but there was one upper Secondary student and 6 upper Secondary vocational students who attended classes in another municipality. There were no non-university Tertiary classes, but there was one specialized Tertiary student who attended classes in another municipality.
, there were 6 students in Cheiry who came from another municipality, while 28 residents attended schools outside the municipality.