Morlon
Encyclopedia
Morlon is a municipality
in the district of Gruyère
in the canton
of Fribourg in Switzerland
.
Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 7.7% and transportation infrastructure made up 1.6%. Out of the forested land, 15.7% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.2% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 7.3% is used for growing crops and 63.3% is pastures. Of the water in the municipality, 0.8% is in lakes and 0.4% is in rivers and streams.
The municipality is located in the Gruyère district, at the southern end of the Lake of Gruyère. It consists of the haufendorf village (an irregular, unplanned and quite closely packed village, built around a central square) of Morlon on the Bulle
-Fribourg
road.
of the municipal coat of arms
is Per fess Gules a Crane rising Argent and Pally of Six Argent and Gules.
Most of the population speaks French
(448 or 93.3%) as their first language, German
is the second most common (14 or 2.9%) and English
is the third (5 or 1.0%). There are 4 people who speak Italian
.
, the population was 48.6% male and 51.4% female. The population was made up of 268 Swiss men (44.2% of the population) and 27 (4.4%) non-Swiss men. There were 290 Swiss women (47.8%) and 22 (3.6%) non-Swiss women. Of the population in the municipality, 169 or about 35.2% were born in Morlon and lived there in 2000. There were 209 or 43.5% who were born in the same canton, while 37 or 7.7% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 53 or 11.0% were born outside of Switzerland.
, children and teenagers (0-19 years old) make up 26.3% of the population, while adults (20-64 years old) make up 60% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 13.8%.
, there were 213 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 234 married individuals, 20 widows or widowers and 13 individuals who are divorced.
, there were 179 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.6 persons per household. There were 43 households that consist of only one person and 15 households with five or more people. , a total of 175 apartments (86.6% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 19 apartments (9.4%) were seasonally occupied and 8 apartments (4.0%) were empty.
The historical population is given in the following chart:
the most popular party was the SVP
which received 21.7% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SP
(21.0%), the FDP
(20.9%) and the CVP
(19.0%).
The SVP improved their position in Morlon rising to first, from second in 2007 (with 20.1%) The SPS moved from third in 2007 (with 20.0%) to second in 2011, the FDP moved from fourth in 2007 (with 16.4%) to third and the CVP moved from first in 2007 (with 29.4%) to fourth. A total of 207 votes were cast in this election, of which 6 or 2.9% were invalid.
the total number of full-time equivalent
jobs was 94. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 18, of which 14 were in agriculture and 4 were in forestry or lumber production. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 31 of which 3 or (9.7%) were in manufacturing and 28 (90.3%) were in construction. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 45. In the tertiary sector; 6 or 13.3% were in the sale or repair of motor vehicles, 14 or 31.1% were in a hotel or restaurant, 3 or 6.7% were the insurance or financial industry, 1 was a technical professional or scientist, 1 was in education and 14 or 31.1% were in health care.
, there were 48 workers who commuted into the municipality and 188 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 3.9 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering. Of the working population, 6% used public transportation to get to work, and 72.6% used a private car.
. Of the rest of the population, there were 7 members of an Orthodox church
(or about 1.46% of the population), there were 2 individuals (or about 0.42% of the population) who belonged to the Christian Catholic Church
, and there were 9 individuals (or about 1.88% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There were 3 (or about 0.63% of the population) who were Islam
ic. 22 (or about 4.58% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic
or atheist
, and 12 individuals (or about 2.50% of the population) did not answer the question.
). Of the 61 who completed tertiary schooling, 57.4% were Swiss men, 27.9% were Swiss women, 9.8% were non-Swiss men.
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
.
During the 2010-11 school year, there were a total of 37 students attending 2 classes in Morlon. A total of 113 students from the municipality attended any school, either in the municipality or outside of it. There was one kindergarten class with a total of 18 students in the municipality. The municipality had one primary class and 19 students. During the same year, there were no lower secondary classes in the municipality, but 17 students attended lower secondary school in a neighboring municipality. There were no upper Secondary classes or vocational classes, but there were 9 upper Secondary students and 19 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 9 students in Morlon who came from another municipality, while 75 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 Gruyère
Gruyère (district)
Gruyère District is a district of the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland. It has a population of . Its capital is Bulle.-Municipalities:-Mergers and name changes:...
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....
.
History
Morlon is first mentioned in 1038 as Mollon. It was first mentioned as Morlon in 1500.Geography
Morlon has an area, , of 2.5 square kilometre. Of this area, 1.77 square kilometre or 71.4% is used for agricultural purposes, while 0.42 square kilometre or 16.9% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 0.24 square kilometre or 9.7% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.03 km² (7.4 acre) or 1.2% is either rivers or lakes and 0.03 km² (7.4 acre) or 1.2% is unproductive land.Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 7.7% and transportation infrastructure made up 1.6%. Out of the forested land, 15.7% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.2% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 7.3% is used for growing crops and 63.3% is pastures. Of the water in the municipality, 0.8% is in lakes and 0.4% is in rivers and streams.
The municipality is located in the Gruyère district, at the southern end of the Lake of Gruyère. It consists of the haufendorf village (an irregular, unplanned and quite closely packed village, built around a central square) of Morlon on the Bulle
Bulle
Bulle is a municipality in the district of Gruyère in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland. In January 2006 Bulle incorporated the formerly independent municipality of La Tour-de-Trême.-History:...
-Fribourg
Fribourg
Fribourg is the capital of the Swiss canton of Fribourg and the district of Sarine. It is located on both sides of the river Saane/Sarine, on the Swiss plateau, and is an important economic, administrative and educational center on the cultural border between German and French Switzerland...
road.
Coat of arms
The blazonBlazon
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 the appropriate image...
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 Gules a Crane rising Argent and Pally of Six Argent and Gules.
Demographics
Morlon has a population of . , 8.6% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (2000–2010) the population has changed at a rate of 21.7%. Migration accounted for 13.1%, while births and deaths accounted for 9.6%.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...
(448 or 93.3%) 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 (14 or 2.9%) 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 1.0%). There are 4 people who speak Italian
Italian language
Italian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia...
.
, the population was 48.6% male and 51.4% female. The population was made up of 268 Swiss men (44.2% of the population) and 27 (4.4%) non-Swiss men. There were 290 Swiss women (47.8%) and 22 (3.6%) non-Swiss women. Of the population in the municipality, 169 or about 35.2% were born in Morlon and lived there in 2000. There were 209 or 43.5% who were born in the same canton, while 37 or 7.7% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 53 or 11.0% were born outside of Switzerland.
, children and teenagers (0-19 years old) make up 26.3% of the population, while adults (20-64 years old) make up 60% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 13.8%.
, there were 213 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 234 married individuals, 20 widows or widowers and 13 individuals who are divorced.
, there were 179 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.6 persons per household. There were 43 households that consist of only one person and 15 households with five or more people. , a total of 175 apartments (86.6% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 19 apartments (9.4%) were seasonally occupied and 8 apartments (4.0%) were empty.
The historical population is given in the following chart:
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 21.7% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SP
Social Democratic Party of Switzerland
The Social Democratic Party of Switzerland is the largest centre-left political party in Switzerland....
(21.0%), 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....
(20.9%) and 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...
(19.0%).
The SVP improved their position in Morlon rising to first, from second in 2007 (with 20.1%) The SPS moved from third in 2007 (with 20.0%) to second in 2011, the FDP moved from fourth in 2007 (with 16.4%) to third and the CVP moved from first in 2007 (with 29.4%) to fourth. A total of 207 votes were cast in this election, of which 6 or 2.9% were invalid.
Economy
, Morlon had an unemployment rate of 1.4%. , there were 25 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 9 businesses involved in this sector. 31 people were employed in the secondary sector and there were 5 businesses in this sector. 63 people were employed in the tertiary sector, with 14 businesses in this sector. There were 252 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 47.6% 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 94. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 18, of which 14 were in agriculture and 4 were in forestry or lumber production. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 31 of which 3 or (9.7%) were in manufacturing and 28 (90.3%) were in construction. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 45. In the tertiary sector; 6 or 13.3% were in the sale or repair of motor vehicles, 14 or 31.1% were in a hotel or restaurant, 3 or 6.7% were the insurance or financial industry, 1 was a technical professional or scientist, 1 was in education and 14 or 31.1% were in health care.
, there were 48 workers who commuted into the municipality and 188 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 3.9 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering. Of the working population, 6% used public transportation to get to work, and 72.6% used a private car.
Religion
From the , 400 or 83.3% were Roman Catholic, while 27 or 5.6% 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 7 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 1.46% of the population), there were 2 individuals (or about 0.42% of the population) who belonged to the Christian Catholic Church
Christian Catholic Church of Switzerland
The Christian Catholic Church of Switzerland is the Swiss member church of the Union of Utrecht, also known as Old Catholic Church, originally founded by the jansenists, with a later influx of discontented Catholics following their disappointment with the First Vatican Council. It has 14,000...
, and there were 9 individuals (or about 1.88% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There were 3 (or about 0.63% 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. 22 (or about 4.58% 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 12 individuals (or about 2.50% of the population) did not answer the question.
Education
In Morlon about 139 or (29.0%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 61 or (12.7%) 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 61 who completed tertiary schooling, 57.4% were Swiss men, 27.9% were Swiss women, 9.8% were non-Swiss men.
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...
.
During the 2010-11 school year, there were a total of 37 students attending 2 classes in Morlon. A total of 113 students from the municipality attended any school, either in the municipality or outside of it. There was one kindergarten class with a total of 18 students in the municipality. The municipality had one primary class and 19 students. During the same year, there were no lower secondary classes in the municipality, but 17 students attended lower secondary school in a neighboring municipality. There were no upper Secondary classes or vocational classes, but there were 9 upper Secondary students and 19 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 9 students in Morlon who came from another municipality, while 75 residents attended schools outside the municipality.