Ursy
Encyclopedia
Ursy is a municipality
in the district of Glâne
in the canton
of Fribourg in Switzerland
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Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 5.4% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.4%. Out of the forested land, all of the forested land area is covered with heavy forests. Of the agricultural land, 33.5% is used for growing crops and 31.8% is pastures, while 1.2% is used for orchards or vine crops.
The municipality of Vuarmarens
is seeking approval from the Canton to merge on 1 January 2012 into the municipality of Ursy. On 1 January 2001 the former municipalities of Vauderens, Bionnens and Mossel merged into the municipality of Ursy.
after the mergers with Bionnens, Mossel and Vauderens.
Most of the population speaks French
(668 or 88.0%) as their first language, Portuguese
is the second most common (36 or 4.7%) and Albanian
is the third (26 or 3.4%). There are 14 people who speak German
, 7 people who speak Italian
.
, the population was 48.4% male and 51.6% female. The population was made up of 739 Swiss men (42.5% of the population) and 104 (6.0%) non-Swiss men. There were 774 Swiss women (44.5%) and 123 (7.1%) non-Swiss women. Of the population in the municipality, 218 or about 28.7% were born in Ursy and lived there in 2000. There were 246 or 32.4% who were born in the same canton, while 171 or 22.5% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 112 or 14.8% were born outside of Switzerland.
, children and teenagers (0-19 years old) make up 29.6% of the population, while adults (20-64 years old) make up 57.9% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 12.4%.
, there were 344 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 349 married individuals, 44 widows or widowers and 22 individuals who are divorced.
, there were 505 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.7 persons per household. There were 72 households that consist of only one person and 43 households with five or more people. , a total of 258 apartments (79.6% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 48 apartments (14.8%) were seasonally occupied and 18 apartments (5.6%) were empty. , the construction rate of new housing units was 7.4 new units per 1000 residents. The vacancy rate for the municipality, , was 1.2%.
The historical population is given in the following chart:
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the most popular party was the CVP
which received 27.5% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SP
(25.9%), the SVP
(20.7%) and the FDP
(5.9%).
The CVP improved their position in Ursy rising to first, from second in 2007 (with 24.9%) The SPS moved from first in 2007 (with 26.4%) to second in 2011, the SVP retained about the same popularity (23.6% in 2007) and the FDP retained about the same popularity (9.5% in 2007). A total of 481 votes were cast in this election, of which 5 or 1.0% were invalid.
the total number of full-time equivalent
jobs was 600. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 54, of which 52 were in agriculture and 1 was in forestry or lumber production. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 161 of which 47 or (29.2%) were in manufacturing and 113 (70.2%) were in construction. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 385. In the tertiary sector; 247 or 64.2% were in the sale or repair of motor vehicles, 10 or 2.6% were in the movement and storage of goods, 9 or 2.3% were in a hotel or restaurant, 4 or 1.0% were in the information industry, 2 or 0.5% were the insurance or financial industry, 31 or 8.1% were technical professionals or scientists, 11 or 2.9% were in education and 61 or 15.8% were in health care.
, there were 351 workers who commuted into the municipality and 198 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net importer of workers, with about 1.8 workers entering the municipality for every one leaving. Of the working population, 7.7% used public transportation to get to work, and 62.8% used a private car.
. Of the rest of the population, there were 36 individuals (or about 4.74% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There were 30 (or about 3.95% of the population) who were Islam
ic. 30 (or about 3.95% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic
or atheist
, and 26 individuals (or about 3.43% of the population) did not answer the question.
). Of the 55 who completed tertiary schooling, 81.8% were Swiss men, 18.2% 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
.
During the 2010-11 school year, there were a total of 195 students attending 10 classes in Ursy. A total of 356 students from the municipality attended any school, either in the municipality or outside of it. There were 2 kindergarten classes with a total of 44 students in the municipality. The municipality had 8 primary classes and 151 students. During the same year, there were no lower secondary classes in the municipality, but 79 students attended lower secondary school in a neighboring municipality. There were no upper Secondary classes or vocational classes, but there were 34 upper Secondary students and 42 upper Secondary vocational students who attended classes in another municipality. The municipality had no non-university Tertiary classes, but there were 2 non-university Tertiary students and 4 specialized Tertiary students who attended classes in another municipality.
, there were 42 students in Ursy who came from another municipality, while 76 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 Glâne
Glâne (district)
Glâne District is a one of seven districts in the Canton of Fribourg in Switzerland. It has a population of .-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....
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Geography
Ursy has an area, , of 8.9 square kilometre. Of this area, 5.94 square kilometre or 66.5% is used for agricultural purposes, while 2.15 square kilometre or 24.1% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 0.83 square kilometre or 9.3% is settled (buildings or roads).Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 5.4% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.4%. Out of the forested land, all of the forested land area is covered with heavy forests. Of the agricultural land, 33.5% is used for growing crops and 31.8% is pastures, while 1.2% is used for orchards or vine crops.
The municipality of Vuarmarens
Vuarmarens
Vuarmarens is a municipality in the district of Glâne in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland. On January 1, 2006, Vuarmarens incorporated the formerly independent municipality of Esmonts.-Geography:...
is seeking approval from the Canton to merge on 1 January 2012 into the municipality of Ursy. On 1 January 2001 the former municipalities of Vauderens, Bionnens and Mossel merged into the municipality of Ursy.
Coat of arms
Ursy retained its traditional coat of armsCoat 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...
after the mergers with Bionnens, Mossel and Vauderens.
Demographics
Ursy has a population of . , 12.4% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (2000–2010) the population has changed at a rate of 20.8%. Migration accounted for 15.8%, while births and deaths accounted for 4.3%.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...
(668 or 88.0%) as their first language, Portuguese
Portuguese language
Portuguese is a Romance language that arose in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia, nowadays Galicia and Northern Portugal. The southern part of the Kingdom of Galicia became independent as the County of Portugal in 1095...
is the second most common (36 or 4.7%) 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...
is the third (26 or 3.4%). There are 14 people who speak 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....
, 7 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...
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, the population was 48.4% male and 51.6% female. The population was made up of 739 Swiss men (42.5% of the population) and 104 (6.0%) non-Swiss men. There were 774 Swiss women (44.5%) and 123 (7.1%) non-Swiss women. Of the population in the municipality, 218 or about 28.7% were born in Ursy and lived there in 2000. There were 246 or 32.4% who were born in the same canton, while 171 or 22.5% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 112 or 14.8% were born outside of Switzerland.
, children and teenagers (0-19 years old) make up 29.6% of the population, while adults (20-64 years old) make up 57.9% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 12.4%.
, there were 344 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 349 married individuals, 44 widows or widowers and 22 individuals who are divorced.
, there were 505 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.7 persons per household. There were 72 households that consist of only one person and 43 households with five or more people. , a total of 258 apartments (79.6% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 48 apartments (14.8%) were seasonally occupied and 18 apartments (5.6%) were empty. , the construction rate of new housing units was 7.4 new units per 1000 residents. The vacancy rate for the municipality, , was 1.2%.
The historical population is given in the following chart:
Heritage sites of national significance
The D’Invau farm house 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 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 27.5% 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....
(25.9%), 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...
(20.7%) 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....
(5.9%).
The CVP improved their position in Ursy rising to first, from second in 2007 (with 24.9%) The SPS moved from first in 2007 (with 26.4%) to second in 2011, the SVP retained about the same popularity (23.6% in 2007) and the FDP retained about the same popularity (9.5% in 2007). A total of 481 votes were cast in this election, of which 5 or 1.0% were invalid.
Economy
, Ursy had an unemployment rate of 3.8%. , there were 68 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 27 businesses involved in this sector. 173 people were employed in the secondary sector and there were 23 businesses in this sector. 454 people were employed in the tertiary sector, with 43 businesses in this sector. There were 331 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 36.9% 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 600. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 54, of which 52 were in agriculture and 1 was in forestry or lumber production. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 161 of which 47 or (29.2%) were in manufacturing and 113 (70.2%) were in construction. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 385. In the tertiary sector; 247 or 64.2% were in the sale or repair of motor vehicles, 10 or 2.6% were in the movement and storage of goods, 9 or 2.3% were in a hotel or restaurant, 4 or 1.0% were in the information industry, 2 or 0.5% were the insurance or financial industry, 31 or 8.1% were technical professionals or scientists, 11 or 2.9% were in education and 61 or 15.8% were in health care.
, there were 351 workers who commuted into the municipality and 198 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net importer of workers, with about 1.8 workers entering the municipality for every one leaving. Of the working population, 7.7% used public transportation to get to work, and 62.8% used a private car.
Religion
From the , 586 or 77.2% were Roman Catholic, while 66 or 8.7% 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 36 individuals (or about 4.74% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There were 30 (or about 3.95% 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. 30 (or about 3.95% 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 26 individuals (or about 3.43% of the population) did not answer the question.
Education
In Ursy about 235 or (31.0%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 55 or (7.2%) 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 55 who completed tertiary schooling, 81.8% were Swiss men, 18.2% 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 195 students attending 10 classes in Ursy. A total of 356 students from the municipality attended any school, either in the municipality or outside of it. There were 2 kindergarten classes with a total of 44 students in the municipality. The municipality had 8 primary classes and 151 students. During the same year, there were no lower secondary classes in the municipality, but 79 students attended lower secondary school in a neighboring municipality. There were no upper Secondary classes or vocational classes, but there were 34 upper Secondary students and 42 upper Secondary vocational students who attended classes in another municipality. The municipality had no non-university Tertiary classes, but there were 2 non-university Tertiary students and 4 specialized Tertiary students who attended classes in another municipality.
, there were 42 students in Ursy who came from another municipality, while 76 residents attended schools outside the municipality.