Mümliswil-Ramiswil
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Mümliswil-Ramiswil is a municipality
in the district of Thal
in the canton
of Solothurn in Switzerland
.
Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 2.4% and transportation infrastructure made up 1.2%. Out of the forested land, 41.9% of the total land area is heavily forested and 3.2% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 2.9% is used for growing crops and 27.5% is pastures and 19.6% is used for alpine pastures. All the water in the municipality is flowing water.
The municipality is located in the Thal district, in the Gulden valley between the second and third Jura mountain chains
. It sits on the route over the Passwang Pass
, the Wasserfallen crossing and the Schelten Pass
. The municipality covers the entire Gulden valley, as well as the Lobisei canyon, which connects to the Balsthal valley. It is largest municipality in the Canton of Solothurn. It consists of the villages of Mümliswil and Ramiswil as well a number of hamlets
and individual farm houses.
of the municipal coat of arms
is Per pale Or a Crozier with letter M in the top Sable and tierced per fess Sable Argent and Gules.
Most of the population speaks German
(2,387 or 93.5%), with Serbo-Croatian
being second most common (70 or 2.7%) and Albanian
being third (35 or 1.4%). There are 7 people who speak French
and 1 person who speaks Romansh.
, the gender distribution of the population was 51.9% male and 48.1% female. The population was made up of 1,188 Swiss men (46.8% of the population) and 129 (5.1%) non-Swiss men. There were 1,113 Swiss women (43.9%) and 107 (4.2%) non-Swiss women. Of the population in the municipality 1,590 or about 62.3% were born in Mümliswil-Ramiswil and lived there in 2000. There were 379 or 14.8% who were born in the same canton, while 268 or 10.5% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 233 or 9.1% were born outside of Switzerland.
In there were 18 live births to Swiss citizens and 1 birth to non-Swiss citizens, and in same time span there were 19 deaths of Swiss citizens. Ignoring immigration and emigration, the population of Swiss citizens decreased by 1 while the foreign population increased by 1. There were 3 Swiss women who immigrated back to Switzerland. At the same time, there were 7 non-Swiss men and 6 non-Swiss women who immigrated from another country to Switzerland. The total Swiss population change in 2008 (from all sources, including moves across municipal borders) was a decrease of 10 and the non-Swiss population increased by 12 people. This represents a population growth rate of 0.1%.
The age distribution, , in Mümliswil-Ramiswil is; 237 children or 9.3% of the population are between 0 and 6 years old and 473 teenagers or 18.5% are between 7 and 19. Of the adult population, 133 people or 5.2% of the population are between 20 and 24 years old. 759 people or 29.7% are between 25 and 44, and 535 people or 21.0% are between 45 and 64. The senior population distribution is 312 people or 12.2% of the population are between 65 and 79 years old and there are 104 people or 4.1% who are over 80.
, there were 1,081 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 1,244 married individuals, 155 widows or widowers and 73 individuals who are divorced.
the average number of residents per living room was 0.59 which is about equal to the cantonal average of 0.56 per room. In this case, a room is defined as space of a housing unit of at least 4 m² (43.1 sq ft) as normal bedrooms, dining rooms, living rooms, kitchens and habitable cellars and attics. About 65.6% of the total households were owner occupied, or in other words did not pay rent (though they may have a mortgage
or a rent-to-own agreement).
, there were 962 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.6 persons per household. There were 265 households that consist of only one person and 120 households with five or more people. Out of a total of 971 households that answered this question, 27.3% were households made up of just one person and there were 9 adults who lived with their parents. Of the rest of the households, there are 243 married couples without children, 392 married couples with children There were 38 single parents with a child or children. There were 15 households that were made up of unrelated people and 9 households that were made up of some sort of institution or another collective housing.
there were 449 single family homes (or 63.1% of the total) out of a total of 712 inhabited buildings. There were 109 multi-family buildings (15.3%), along with 112 multi-purpose buildings that were mostly used for housing (15.7%) and 42 other use buildings (commercial or industrial) that also had some housing (5.9%). Of the single family homes 36 were built before 1919, while 59 were built between 1990 and 2000. The greatest number of single family homes (95) were built between 1946 and 1960.
there were 1,003 apartments in the municipality. The most common apartment size was 5 rooms of which there were 265. There were 26 single room apartments and 460 apartments with five or more rooms. Of these apartments, a total of 902 apartments (89.9% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 72 apartments (7.2%) were seasonally occupied and 29 apartments (2.9%) were empty. , the construction rate of new housing units was 1.2 new units per 1000 residents. The vacancy rate for the municipality, , was 4.09%.
The historical population is given in the following chart:
the most popular party was the CVP
which received 41.84% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SVP
(36.25%), the FDP
(11.86%) and the SP
(7.11%). In the federal election, a total of 1,192 votes were cast, and the voter turnout
was 64.2%.
the total number of full-time equivalent
jobs was 578. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 159, of which 154 were in agriculture and 5 were in forestry or lumber production. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 212 of which 72 or (34.0%) were in manufacturing and 139 (65.6%) were in construction. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 207. In the tertiary sector; 82 or 39.6% were in the sale or repair of motor vehicles, 12 or 5.8% were in the movement and storage of goods, 40 or 19.3% were in a hotel or restaurant, 2 or 1.0% were in the information industry, 9 or 4.3% were the insurance or financial industry, 9 or 4.3% were technical professionals or scientists, 35 or 16.9% were in education and 2 or 1.0% were in health care.
, there were 154 workers who commuted into the municipality and 758 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 4.9 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering. Of the working population, 10.8% used public transportation to get to work, and 57.9% used a private car.
From the , 2,066 or 80.9% were Roman Catholic, while 209 or 8.2% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church
. Of the rest of the population, there were 41 members of an Orthodox church
(or about 1.61% of the population), there were 2 individuals (or about 0.08% of the population) who belonged to the Christian Catholic Church
, and there were 26 individuals (or about 1.02% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There were 65 (or about 2.55% of the population) who were Islam
ic. There were 2 individuals who were Buddhist
and 3 individuals who belonged to another church. 66 (or about 2.59% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic
or atheist
, and 73 individuals (or about 2.86% of the population) did not answer the question.
). Of the 142 who completed tertiary schooling, 78.2% were Swiss men, 15.5% were Swiss women and 3.5% were non-Swiss women.
During the 2010-2011 school year there were a total of 257 students in the Mümliswil-Ramiswil school system. The education system
in the Canton of Solothurn allows young children to attend two years of non-obligatory Kindergarten
. During that school year, there were 47 children in kindergarten. The canton's school system requires students to attend six years of primary school, with some of the children attending smaller, specialized classes. In the municipality there were 210 students in primary school. The secondary school
program consists of three lower, obligatory years of schooling, followed by three to five years of optional, advanced schools. All the lower secondary students from Mümliswil-Ramiswil attend their school in a neighboring municipality.
, there were 10 students in Mümliswil-Ramiswil who came from another municipality, while 118 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 Thal
Thal (district)
Thal District is one of the ten districts of the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland, situated in the centre of the canton. Together with the Gäu District, it forms the Amtei of Thal-Gäu...
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 Solothurn 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
Mümliswil is first mentioned in 1145 as Mumliswilre and Mumliswilere. In 1194 it was mentioned as Mumeliswile. Ramiswil was first mentioned in 1147 as Rammolswlare, while in 1152 it was mentioned as Rammolswilare.Geography
Mümliswil-Ramiswil has an area, , of 35.53 square kilometres (13.7 sq mi). Of this area, 17.89 km² (6.9 sq mi) or 50.4% is used for agricultural purposes, while 16.03 km² (6.2 sq mi) or 45.1% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 1.47 km² (0.567570173131027 sq mi) or 4.1% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.04 km² (9.9 acre) or 0.1% is either rivers or lakes and 0.05 km² (12.4 acre) or 0.1% is unproductive land.Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 2.4% and transportation infrastructure made up 1.2%. Out of the forested land, 41.9% of the total land area is heavily forested and 3.2% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 2.9% is used for growing crops and 27.5% is pastures and 19.6% is used for alpine pastures. All the water in the municipality is flowing water.
The municipality is located in the Thal district, in the Gulden valley between the second and third Jura mountain chains
Jura mountains
The Jura Mountains are a small mountain range located north of the Alps, separating the Rhine and Rhone rivers and forming part of the watershed of each...
. It sits on the route over the Passwang Pass
Passwang Pass
Passwang Pass is a high mountain pass in the Jura Mountains in the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland.It connects Mümliswil and Reigoldswil. At the summit, the pass road goes through a 200-metre tunnel.-See also:...
, the Wasserfallen crossing and the Schelten Pass
Schelten Pass
Schelten Pass is a high mountain pass in the Jura Mountains between the cantons of Jura and Solothurn in Switzerland.It connects Mervelier and Ramiswil and is the most direct route from Delémont and Balsthal...
. The municipality covers the entire Gulden valley, as well as the Lobisei canyon, which connects to the Balsthal valley. It is largest municipality in the Canton of Solothurn. It consists of the villages of Mümliswil and Ramiswil as well a number of hamlets
Hamlet (place)
A hamlet is usually a rural settlement which is too small to be considered a village, though sometimes the word is used for a different sort of community. Historically, when a hamlet became large enough to justify building a church, it was then classified as a village...
and individual farm houses.
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 pale Or a Crozier with letter M in the top Sable and tierced per fess Sable Argent and Gules.
Demographics
Mümliswil-Ramiswil has a population of . , 8.5% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of -2.9%. Over the same time period the population has changed at a rate of -2% due to migration and at a rate of -1.1% due to births and deaths.Most of the population speaks 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....
(2,387 or 93.5%), with Serbo-Croatian
Serbo-Croatian
Serbo-Croatian or Serbo-Croat, less commonly Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian , is a South Slavic language with multiple standards and the primary language of Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro...
being second most common (70 or 2.7%) and Albanian
Albanian language
Albanian is an Indo-European language spoken by approximately 7.6 million people, primarily in Albania and Kosovo but also in other areas of the Balkans in which there is an Albanian population, including western Macedonia, southern Montenegro, southern Serbia and northwestern Greece...
being third (35 or 1.4%). There are 7 people who speak 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...
and 1 person who speaks Romansh.
, the gender distribution of the population was 51.9% male and 48.1% female. The population was made up of 1,188 Swiss men (46.8% of the population) and 129 (5.1%) non-Swiss men. There were 1,113 Swiss women (43.9%) and 107 (4.2%) non-Swiss women. Of the population in the municipality 1,590 or about 62.3% were born in Mümliswil-Ramiswil and lived there in 2000. There were 379 or 14.8% who were born in the same canton, while 268 or 10.5% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 233 or 9.1% were born outside of Switzerland.
In there were 18 live births to Swiss citizens and 1 birth to non-Swiss citizens, and in same time span there were 19 deaths of Swiss citizens. Ignoring immigration and emigration, the population of Swiss citizens decreased by 1 while the foreign population increased by 1. There were 3 Swiss women who immigrated back to Switzerland. At the same time, there were 7 non-Swiss men and 6 non-Swiss women who immigrated from another country to Switzerland. The total Swiss population change in 2008 (from all sources, including moves across municipal borders) was a decrease of 10 and the non-Swiss population increased by 12 people. This represents a population growth rate of 0.1%.
The age distribution, , in Mümliswil-Ramiswil is; 237 children or 9.3% of the population are between 0 and 6 years old and 473 teenagers or 18.5% are between 7 and 19. Of the adult population, 133 people or 5.2% of the population are between 20 and 24 years old. 759 people or 29.7% are between 25 and 44, and 535 people or 21.0% are between 45 and 64. The senior population distribution is 312 people or 12.2% of the population are between 65 and 79 years old and there are 104 people or 4.1% who are over 80.
, there were 1,081 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 1,244 married individuals, 155 widows or widowers and 73 individuals who are divorced.
the average number of residents per living room was 0.59 which is about equal to the cantonal average of 0.56 per room. In this case, a room is defined as space of a housing unit of at least 4 m² (43.1 sq ft) as normal bedrooms, dining rooms, living rooms, kitchens and habitable cellars and attics. About 65.6% of the total households were owner occupied, or in other words did not pay rent (though they may have a mortgage
Mortgage loan
A mortgage loan is a loan secured by real property through the use of a mortgage note which evidences the existence of the loan and the encumbrance of that realty through the granting of a mortgage which secures the loan...
or a rent-to-own agreement).
, there were 962 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.6 persons per household. There were 265 households that consist of only one person and 120 households with five or more people. Out of a total of 971 households that answered this question, 27.3% were households made up of just one person and there were 9 adults who lived with their parents. Of the rest of the households, there are 243 married couples without children, 392 married couples with children There were 38 single parents with a child or children. There were 15 households that were made up of unrelated people and 9 households that were made up of some sort of institution or another collective housing.
there were 449 single family homes (or 63.1% of the total) out of a total of 712 inhabited buildings. There were 109 multi-family buildings (15.3%), along with 112 multi-purpose buildings that were mostly used for housing (15.7%) and 42 other use buildings (commercial or industrial) that also had some housing (5.9%). Of the single family homes 36 were built before 1919, while 59 were built between 1990 and 2000. The greatest number of single family homes (95) were built between 1946 and 1960.
there were 1,003 apartments in the municipality. The most common apartment size was 5 rooms of which there were 265. There were 26 single room apartments and 460 apartments with five or more rooms. Of these apartments, a total of 902 apartments (89.9% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 72 apartments (7.2%) were seasonally occupied and 29 apartments (2.9%) were empty. , the construction rate of new housing units was 1.2 new units per 1000 residents. The vacancy rate for the municipality, , was 4.09%.
The historical population is given in the following chart:
Politics
In the 2007 federal electionSwiss 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...
the most popular party was 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...
which received 41.84% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were 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...
(36.25%), 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....
(11.86%) and the SP
Social Democratic Party of Switzerland
The Social Democratic Party of Switzerland is the largest centre-left political party in Switzerland....
(7.11%). In the federal election, a total of 1,192 votes were cast, and the voter turnout
Voter turnout
Voter turnout is the percentage of eligible voters who cast a ballot in an election . After increasing for many decades, there has been a trend of decreasing voter turnout in most established democracies since the 1960s...
was 64.2%.
Economy
, Mümliswil-Ramiswil had an unemployment rate of 1.9%. , there were 228 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 88 businesses involved in this sector. 228 people were employed in the secondary sector and there were 33 businesses in this sector. 277 people were employed in the tertiary sector, with 57 businesses in this sector. There were 1,253 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 38.9% 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 578. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 159, of which 154 were in agriculture and 5 were in forestry or lumber production. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 212 of which 72 or (34.0%) were in manufacturing and 139 (65.6%) were in construction. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 207. In the tertiary sector; 82 or 39.6% were in the sale or repair of motor vehicles, 12 or 5.8% were in the movement and storage of goods, 40 or 19.3% were in a hotel or restaurant, 2 or 1.0% were in the information industry, 9 or 4.3% were the insurance or financial industry, 9 or 4.3% were technical professionals or scientists, 35 or 16.9% were in education and 2 or 1.0% were in health care.
, there were 154 workers who commuted into the municipality and 758 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 4.9 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering. Of the working population, 10.8% used public transportation to get to work, and 57.9% used a private car.
Religion
Swiss 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 41 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 1.61% of the population), there were 2 individuals (or about 0.08% 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 26 individuals (or about 1.02% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There were 65 (or about 2.55% 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 2 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 3 individuals who belonged to another church. 66 (or about 2.59% 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 73 individuals (or about 2.86% of the population) did not answer the question.
Education
In Mümliswil-Ramiswil about 872 or (34.2%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 142 or (5.6%) 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 142 who completed tertiary schooling, 78.2% were Swiss men, 15.5% were Swiss women and 3.5% were non-Swiss women.
During the 2010-2011 school year there were a total of 257 students in the Mümliswil-Ramiswil school system. The education system
Education in Switzerland
The education system in Switzerland is very diverse, because the constitution of Switzerland delegates the authority for the school system mainly to the cantons...
in the Canton of Solothurn allows young children to attend two years 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...
. During that school year, there were 47 children in kindergarten. The canton's school system requires students to attend six years of primary school, with some of the children attending smaller, specialized classes. In the municipality there were 210 students in primary school. The secondary school
Secondary school
Secondary school is a term used to describe an educational institution where the final stage of schooling, known as secondary education and usually compulsory up to a specified age, takes place...
program consists of three lower, obligatory years of schooling, followed by three to five years of optional, advanced schools. All the lower secondary students from Mümliswil-Ramiswil attend their school in a neighboring municipality.
, there were 10 students in Mümliswil-Ramiswil who came from another municipality, while 118 residents attended schools outside the municipality.