Sainte-Croix, Switzerland
Encyclopedia
Sainte-Croix is a municipality
in the district of Jura-Nord Vaudois in the canton
of Vaud
in Switzerland
.
name Heilig Kreuz.
Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 3.6% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.6%. Out of the forested land, 45.9% of the total land area is heavily forested and 3.8% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 1.0% is used for growing crops and 21.2% is pastures and 18.9% is used for alpine pastures. All the water in the municipality is flowing water.
The municipality was part of the Grandson District until it was dissolved on 31 August 2006, and Sainte-Croix became part of the new district of Jura-Nord Vaudois.
It is located between Yverdon in Vaud, Fleurier
in Neuchâtel, and Pontarlier
in France
.
The village of Sainte Croix is situated at an altitude of 1086 metres (3,563 ft) in the Jura Mountains
at the foot of the Chasseron. The municipal area stretches over two valleys, Sainte Croix and Les Granges and includes 27 villages. Some of the most notable include Sainte Croix, L' Auberson, La Chaux, La Vraconne, La Sagne and Le Château.
of the municipal coat of arms
is Azure, a Latin Cross Or issuant from a Coupeaux Vert.
Most of the population speaks French
(3,914 or 90.3%), with German being second most common (96 or 2.2%) and Italian
being third (93 or 2.1%). There are 2 people who speak Romansh.
Of the population in the municipality 1,734 or about 40.0% were born in Sainte-Croix and lived there in 2000. There were 885 or 20.4% who were born in the same canton, while 618 or 14.3% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 746 or 17.2% were born outside of Switzerland.
In there were 43 live births to Swiss citizens and 9 births to non-Swiss citizens, and in same time span there were 49 deaths of Swiss citizens and 2 non-Swiss citizen deaths. Ignoring immigration and emigration, the population of Swiss citizens decreased by 6 while the foreign population increased by 7. There were 7 Swiss men who immigrated back to Switzerland and 2 Swiss women who emigrated from Switzerland. At the same time, there were 25 non-Swiss men and 22 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 an increase of 3 and the non-Swiss population increased by 39 people. This represents a population growth rate of 1.0%.
The age distribution, , in Sainte-Croix is; 400 children or 9.0% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 448 teenagers or 10.0% are between 10 and 19. Of the adult population, 499 people or 11.2% of the population are between 20 and 29 years old. 464 people or 10.4% are between 30 and 39, 623 people or 14.0% are between 40 and 49, and 581 people or 13.0% are between 50 and 59. The senior population distribution is 639 people or 14.3% of the population are between 60 and 69 years old, 417 people or 9.3% are between 70 and 79, there are 322 people or 7.2% who are between 80 and 89, and there are 69 people or 1.5% who are 90 and older.
, there were 1,549 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 2,086 married individuals, 443 widows or widowers and 255 individuals who are divorced.
the average number of residents per living room was 0.53 which is less people per room than the cantonal average of 0.61 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 40.9% 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 1,980 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2. persons per household. There were 836 households that consist of only one person and 105 households with five or more people. Out of a total of 2,053 households that answered this question, 40.7% were households made up of just one person and there were 20 adults who lived with their parents. Of the rest of the households, there are 609 married couples without children, 416 married couples with children There were 87 single parents with a child or children. There were 12 households that were made up of unrelated people and 73 households that were made up of some sort of institution or another collective housing.
there were 579 single family homes (or 47.2% of the total) out of a total of 1,226 inhabited buildings. There were 367 multi-family buildings (29.9%), along with 193 multi-purpose buildings that were mostly used for housing (15.7%) and 87 other use buildings (commercial or industrial) that also had some housing (7.1%). Of the single family homes 173 were built before 1919, while 33 were built between 1990 and 2000. The most multi-family homes (183) were built before 1919 and the next most (72) were built between 1946 and 1960. There was 1 multi-family house built between 1996 and 2000.
there were 2,847 apartments in the municipality. The most common apartment size was 3 rooms of which there were 1,049. There were 155 single room apartments and 485 apartments with five or more rooms. Of these apartments, a total of 1,926 apartments (67.7% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 643 apartments (22.6%) were seasonally occupied and 278 apartments (9.8%) were empty. , the construction rate of new housing units was 0.9 new units per 1000 residents. The vacancy rate for the municipality, , was 1.26%.
The historical population is given in the following chart:
The village of L'Auberson
in the municipality is known for its music-box museum, the Musée Baud
.
The Centre International de la Mécanique d'Art
is located in the municipality.
the most popular party was the SP
which received 35.49% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SVP
(25.48%), the FDP
(11.66%) and the Green Party
(10.93%). In the federal election, a total of 1,263 votes were cast, and the voter turnout
was 40.8%.
the total number of full-time equivalent
jobs was 1,385. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 63, of which 55 were in agriculture and 8 were in forestry or lumber production. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 630 of which 543 or (86.2%) were in manufacturing and 88 (14.0%) were in construction. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 692. In the tertiary sector; 151 or 21.8% were in the sale or repair of motor vehicles, 32 or 4.6% were in the movement and storage of goods, 78 or 11.3% were in a hotel or restaurant, 16 or 2.3% were in the information industry, 10 or 1.4% were the insurance or financial industry, 22 or 3.2% were technical professionals or scientists, 102 or 14.7% were in education and 185 or 26.7% were in health care.
, there were 886 workers who commuted into the municipality and 585 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net importer of workers, with about 1.5 workers entering the municipality for every one leaving. About 33.9% of the workforce coming into Sainte-Croix are coming from outside Switzerland. Of the working population, 8.3% used public transportation to get to work, and 57% used a private car.
. Of the rest of the population, there were 12 members of an Orthodox church
(or about 0.28% of the population), there were 2 individuals (or about 0.05% of the population) who belonged to the Christian Catholic Church
, and there were 308 individuals (or about 7.11% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There were 2 individuals (or about 0.05% of the population) who were Jewish
, and 104 (or about 2.40% of the population) who were Islam
ic. There were 3 individuals who were Buddhist
, 12 individuals who were Hindu
and 5 individuals who belonged to another church. 457 (or about 10.55% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic
or atheist
, and 385 individuals (or about 8.89% of the population) did not answer the question.
). Of the 348 who completed tertiary schooling, 61.8% were Swiss men, 22.7% were Swiss women, 10.6% were non-Swiss men and 4.9% were non-Swiss women.
In the 2009/2010 school year there were a total of 464 students in the Sainte-Croix school district. In the Vaud cantonal school system, two years of non-obligatory pre-school are provided by the political districts. During the school year, the political district provided pre-school care for a total of 578 children of which 359 children (62.1%) received subsidized pre-school care. The canton's primary school program requires students to attend for four years. There were 223 students in the municipal primary school program. The obligatory lower secondary school program lasts for six years and there were 223 students in those schools. There were also 18 students who were home schooled or attended another non-traditional school.
, there were 160 students in Sainte-Croix who came from another municipality, while 106 residents attended schools outside the municipality.
Sainte-Croix is home to the Musée des Arts et des Sciences and the CIMA. In 2009 the Musée des Arts et des Sciences was visited by 757 visitors (the average in previous years was 530). In 2009 the CIMA was visited by 14,171 visitors (the average in previous years was 18,096).
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 Jura-Nord Vaudois 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 Vaud
Vaud
Vaud is one of the 26 cantons of Switzerland and is located in Romandy, the French-speaking southwestern part of the country. The capital is Lausanne. The name of the Canton in Switzerland's other languages are Vaud in Italian , Waadt in German , and Vad in Romansh.-History:Along the lakes,...
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
Sainte-Croix is first mentioned in 1177 as Sancta Crux. In 1317 it was mentioned as Saint Crueyz. Previously it was known by its GermanGerman 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....
name Heilig Kreuz.
Geography
Sainte-Croix has an area, , of 39.42 square kilometres (15.2 sq mi). Of this area, 16.21 km² (6.3 sq mi) or 41.1% is used for agricultural purposes, while 19.57 km² (7.6 sq mi) or 49.6% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 2.74 km² (1.1 sq mi) or 7.0% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.1 km² (24.7 acre) or 0.3% is either rivers or lakes and 0.69 km² (0.266410489428849 sq mi) or 1.8% is unproductive land.Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 3.6% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.6%. Out of the forested land, 45.9% of the total land area is heavily forested and 3.8% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 1.0% is used for growing crops and 21.2% is pastures and 18.9% is used for alpine pastures. All the water in the municipality is flowing water.
The municipality was part of the Grandson District until it was dissolved on 31 August 2006, and Sainte-Croix became part of the new district of Jura-Nord Vaudois.
It is located between Yverdon in Vaud, Fleurier
Fleurier
Fleurier was a municipality in the district of Val-de-Travers in the canton of Neuchâtel in Switzerland. On 1 January 2009, the former municipalities of Boveresse, Buttes, Couvet, Fleurier, Les Bayards, Môtiers, Noiraigue, Saint-Sulpice and Travers merged to form Val-de-Travers.The Nobel...
in Neuchâtel, and Pontarlier
Pontarlier
Pontarlier is a commune and one of the two sub-prefectures of the Doubs department in the Franche-Comté region in eastern France.-History:...
in France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
.
The village of Sainte Croix is situated at an altitude of 1086 metres (3,563 ft) in the Jura Mountains
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...
at the foot of the Chasseron. The municipal area stretches over two valleys, Sainte Croix and Les Granges and includes 27 villages. Some of the most notable include Sainte Croix, L' Auberson, La Chaux, La Vraconne, La Sagne and Le Château.
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 Azure, a Latin Cross Or issuant from a Coupeaux Vert.
Demographics
Sainte-Croix has a population of . , 14.6% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of 7.5%. It has changed at a rate of 14.3% due to migration and at a rate of -5.8% due to births and deaths.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...
(3,914 or 90.3%), with German being second most common (96 or 2.2%) and 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...
being third (93 or 2.1%). There are 2 people who speak Romansh.
Of the population in the municipality 1,734 or about 40.0% were born in Sainte-Croix and lived there in 2000. There were 885 or 20.4% who were born in the same canton, while 618 or 14.3% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 746 or 17.2% were born outside of Switzerland.
In there were 43 live births to Swiss citizens and 9 births to non-Swiss citizens, and in same time span there were 49 deaths of Swiss citizens and 2 non-Swiss citizen deaths. Ignoring immigration and emigration, the population of Swiss citizens decreased by 6 while the foreign population increased by 7. There were 7 Swiss men who immigrated back to Switzerland and 2 Swiss women who emigrated from Switzerland. At the same time, there were 25 non-Swiss men and 22 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 an increase of 3 and the non-Swiss population increased by 39 people. This represents a population growth rate of 1.0%.
The age distribution, , in Sainte-Croix is; 400 children or 9.0% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 448 teenagers or 10.0% are between 10 and 19. Of the adult population, 499 people or 11.2% of the population are between 20 and 29 years old. 464 people or 10.4% are between 30 and 39, 623 people or 14.0% are between 40 and 49, and 581 people or 13.0% are between 50 and 59. The senior population distribution is 639 people or 14.3% of the population are between 60 and 69 years old, 417 people or 9.3% are between 70 and 79, there are 322 people or 7.2% who are between 80 and 89, and there are 69 people or 1.5% who are 90 and older.
, there were 1,549 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 2,086 married individuals, 443 widows or widowers and 255 individuals who are divorced.
the average number of residents per living room was 0.53 which is less people per room than the cantonal average of 0.61 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 40.9% 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 1,980 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2. persons per household. There were 836 households that consist of only one person and 105 households with five or more people. Out of a total of 2,053 households that answered this question, 40.7% were households made up of just one person and there were 20 adults who lived with their parents. Of the rest of the households, there are 609 married couples without children, 416 married couples with children There were 87 single parents with a child or children. There were 12 households that were made up of unrelated people and 73 households that were made up of some sort of institution or another collective housing.
there were 579 single family homes (or 47.2% of the total) out of a total of 1,226 inhabited buildings. There were 367 multi-family buildings (29.9%), along with 193 multi-purpose buildings that were mostly used for housing (15.7%) and 87 other use buildings (commercial or industrial) that also had some housing (7.1%). Of the single family homes 173 were built before 1919, while 33 were built between 1990 and 2000. The most multi-family homes (183) were built before 1919 and the next most (72) were built between 1946 and 1960. There was 1 multi-family house built between 1996 and 2000.
there were 2,847 apartments in the municipality. The most common apartment size was 3 rooms of which there were 1,049. There were 155 single room apartments and 485 apartments with five or more rooms. Of these apartments, a total of 1,926 apartments (67.7% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 643 apartments (22.6%) were seasonally occupied and 278 apartments (9.8%) were empty. , the construction rate of new housing units was 0.9 new units per 1000 residents. The vacancy rate for the municipality, , was 1.26%.
The historical population is given in the following chart:
Sights
The entire villages of L’Auberson and Sainte-Croix and the hamlet of La Chaux are designated as part of the Inventory of Swiss Heritage SitesInventory of Swiss Heritage Sites
The Inventory of Swiss Heritage Sites 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 village of L'Auberson
L'Auberson
L'Auberson is a village in the municipality of Sainte-Croix in the Swiss canton of Vaud in the Jura Mountains. It lies at the west end of the road over the Col de l'Aiguillon. It is famous for its music-box museum, the Musée Baud....
in the municipality is known for its music-box museum, the Musée Baud
Musée Baud
The Musée Baud is a music-box museum in the Swiss village of L'Auberson in the Jura Mountains in the canton of Vaud.The museum houses one of the largest collections of music boxes, automatons, musical clocks, and gramophones...
.
The Centre International de la Mécanique d'Art
Centre International de la Mécanique d'Art
The Centre International de la Mécanique d'Art in a museum located in Sainte-Croix, Switzerland, and specialised in musical boxes and automatons.- External links :*...
is located in the municipality.
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 SP
Social Democratic Party of Switzerland
The Social Democratic Party of Switzerland is the largest centre-left political party in Switzerland....
which received 35.49% 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...
(25.48%), 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....
(11.66%) and the Green Party
Green Party of Switzerland
The Green Party of Switzerland is the fifth-largest party in the National Council of Switzerland, and the largest party that is not represented on the Federal Council.-History:...
(10.93%). In the federal election, a total of 1,263 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 40.8%.
Economy
, Sainte-Croix had an unemployment rate of 6.3%. , there were 91 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 36 businesses involved in this sector. 674 people were employed in the secondary sector and there were 60 businesses in this sector. 891 people were employed in the tertiary sector, with 145 businesses in this sector. There were 1,704 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 42.3% 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 1,385. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 63, of which 55 were in agriculture and 8 were in forestry or lumber production. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 630 of which 543 or (86.2%) were in manufacturing and 88 (14.0%) were in construction. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 692. In the tertiary sector; 151 or 21.8% were in the sale or repair of motor vehicles, 32 or 4.6% were in the movement and storage of goods, 78 or 11.3% were in a hotel or restaurant, 16 or 2.3% were in the information industry, 10 or 1.4% were the insurance or financial industry, 22 or 3.2% were technical professionals or scientists, 102 or 14.7% were in education and 185 or 26.7% were in health care.
, there were 886 workers who commuted into the municipality and 585 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net importer of workers, with about 1.5 workers entering the municipality for every one leaving. About 33.9% of the workforce coming into Sainte-Croix are coming from outside Switzerland. Of the working population, 8.3% used public transportation to get to work, and 57% used a private car.
Religion
From the , 920 or 21.2% were Roman Catholic, while 2,275 or 52.5% 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 12 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 0.28% of the population), there were 2 individuals (or about 0.05% 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 308 individuals (or about 7.11% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There were 2 individuals (or about 0.05% of the population) who were Jewish
Judaism
Judaism ) is the "religion, philosophy, and way of life" of the Jewish people...
, and 104 (or about 2.40% 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...
, 12 individuals who were Hindu
Hinduism
Hinduism is the predominant and indigenous religious tradition of the Indian Subcontinent. Hinduism is known to its followers as , amongst many other expressions...
and 5 individuals who belonged to another church. 457 (or about 10.55% 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 385 individuals (or about 8.89% of the population) did not answer the question.
Education
In Sainte-Croix about 1,433 or (33.1%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 348 or (8.0%) 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 348 who completed tertiary schooling, 61.8% were Swiss men, 22.7% were Swiss women, 10.6% were non-Swiss men and 4.9% were non-Swiss women.
In the 2009/2010 school year there were a total of 464 students in the Sainte-Croix school district. In the Vaud cantonal school system, two years of non-obligatory pre-school are provided by the political districts. During the school year, the political district provided pre-school care for a total of 578 children of which 359 children (62.1%) received subsidized pre-school care. The canton's primary school program requires students to attend for four years. There were 223 students in the municipal primary school program. The obligatory lower secondary school program lasts for six years and there were 223 students in those schools. There were also 18 students who were home schooled or attended another non-traditional school.
, there were 160 students in Sainte-Croix who came from another municipality, while 106 residents attended schools outside the municipality.
Sainte-Croix is home to the Musée des Arts et des Sciences and the CIMA. In 2009 the Musée des Arts et des Sciences was visited by 757 visitors (the average in previous years was 530). In 2009 the CIMA was visited by 14,171 visitors (the average in previous years was 18,096).
External links
- http://www.sainte-croix.ch