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Nuvilly ( ) is a
municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality' ...
in the district of Broye, in the
canton of Fribourg The canton of Fribourg, also canton of Freiburg, is located in western Switzerland. The canton is bilingual, with French spoken by more than two thirds of the citizens and German by a little more than a quarter. Both are official languages in th ...
,
Switzerland Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe. It is bordered by Italy to the south, France to the west, Germany to the north, and Austria and Liechtenstein to the east. Switzerland ...
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History

Nuvilly is first mentioned in 1242 as ''Nuovillie''.


Geography

Nuvilly has an area, , of . Of this area, or 74.0% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 18.0% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 7.3% is settled (buildings or roads).Swiss Federal Statistical Office-Land Use Statistics
2009 data accessed 25 March 2010
Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 4.0% and transportation infrastructure made up 3.0%. Out of the forested land, 16.0% of the total land area is heavily forested and 2.0% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 55.0% is used for growing crops and 17.8% is pastures, while 1.3% is used for orchards or vine crops. The municipality is located in the Broye district, in the southernmost part of the
Estavayer-le-Lac Estavayer-le-Lac (;Florence Cattin/Andres Kristol, ''Estavayer-le-Lac FR (La Broye)'' in: ''Dictionnaire toponymique des communes suisses – Lexikon der schweizerischen Gemeindenamen – Dizionario toponomastico dei comuni svizzeri (DTS, LSG)'', ...
exclave An enclave is a territory that is entirely surrounded by the territory of only one other state or entity. An enclave can be an independent territory or part of a larger one. Enclaves may also exist within territorial waters. ''Enclave'' is s ...
and the Broye valley. The municipalities of
Châbles Châbles (; , locally ) is a former municipality in the district of Broye in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland. On 1 January 2017 the former municipalities of Châbles and Cheyres merged into the new municipality of Cheyres-Châbles. Geogr ...
,
Cheyres Cheyres (, locally or ''Tsàrè'') is a former Municipalities of Switzerland, municipality in the district of Broye (district), Broye in the Cantons of Switzerland, canton of Fribourg (canton), Fribourg in Switzerland. On 1 January 2017 the for ...
,
Murist Murist (; ) is a former municipality in the district of Broye, in the canton of Fribourg, Switzerland. Its territory was enlarged in 1981 with the formerly independent municipalities La Vounaise and Montborget, and in 1992 with Franex.
, Nuvilly and
Vuissens Vuissens (; ) is a former municipality in the district of Broye, in the canton of Fribourg, Switzerland. On 1 January 2017 the former municipalities of Vuissens, Bussy, Estavayer-le-Lac, Morens, Murist, Rueyres-les-Prés and Vernay merged into ...
are considering a merger on at a date in the future into the new municipality with an, , undetermined name.Amtliches Gemeindeverzeichnis der Schweiz
published by the Swiss Federal Statistical Office accessed 17 February 2011


Coat of arms

The
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of the municipal
coat of arms A coat of arms is a heraldry, heraldic communication design, visual design on an escutcheon (heraldry), escutcheon (i.e., shield), surcoat, or tabard (the last two being outer garments), originating in Europe. The coat of arms on an escutcheon f ...
is ''Pally of Six Argent and Azure overall on a Bend Gules three Mullets of Five.''


Demographics

Nuvilly has a population () of . , 2.1% of the population are resident foreign nationals.Swiss Federal Statistical Office – Superweb database – Gemeinde Statistics 1981-2008
accessed 19 June 2010
Over the last 10 years (2000–2010) the population has changed at a rate of 14.4%. Migration accounted for 17%, while births and deaths accounted for 0.3%.
accessed 9 November 2011
Most of the population () speaks
French French may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to France ** French language, which originated in France ** French people, a nation and ethnic group ** French cuisine, cooking traditions and practices Arts and media * The French (band), ...
(280 or 95.2%) as their first language,
German German(s) may refer to: * Germany, the country of the Germans and German things **Germania (Roman era) * Germans, citizens of Germany, people of German ancestry, or native speakers of the German language ** For citizenship in Germany, see also Ge ...
is the second most common (10 or 3.4%) and Portuguese is the third (2 or 0.7%). , the population was 48.8% male and 51.2% female. The population was made up of 164 Swiss men (47.4% of the population) and 5 (1.4%) non-Swiss men. There were 167 Swiss women (48.3%) and 10 (2.9%) non-Swiss women.Canton of Fribourg Statistics
accessed 3 November 2011
Of the population in the municipality, 150 or about 51.0% were born in Nuvilly and lived there in 2000. There were 60 or 20.4% who were born in the same canton, while 62 or 21.1% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 18 or 6.1% were born outside of Switzerland. The age distribution, , in Nuvilly is; 46 children or 15.6% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 35 teenagers or 11.9% are between 10 and 19. Of the adult population, 23 people or 7.8% of the population are between 20 and 29 years old. 56 people or 19.0% are between 30 and 39, 37 people or 12.6% are between 40 and 49, and 42 people or 14.3% are between 50 and 59. The senior population distribution is 25 people or 8.5% of the population are between 60 and 69 years old, 16 people or 5.4% are between 70 and 79, there are 13 people or 4.4% who are between 80 and 89, and there is 1 person who is 90 and older. , there were 119 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 140 married individuals, 20 widows or widowers and 15 individuals who are divorced.STAT-TAB Datenwürfel für Thema 40.3 – 2000
accessed 2 February 2011
, there were 114 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.6 persons per household. There were 28 households that consist of only one person and 11 households with five or more people. , a total of 114 apartments (88.4% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 5 apartments (3.9%) were seasonally occupied and 10 apartments (7.8%) were empty.Swiss Federal Statistical Office STAT-TAB – Datenwürfel für Thema 09.2 – Gebäude und Wohnungen
accessed 28 January 2011
, the construction rate of new housing units was 8.6 new units per 1000 residents. The historical population is given in the following chart: Colors= id:lightgrey value:gray(0.9) id:darkgrey value:gray(0.8) ImageSize = width:1020 height:210 PlotArea = height:150 left:100 bottom:50 right:100 AlignBars = justify DateFormat = x.y Period = from:0 till:400 TimeAxis = orientation:vertical AlignBars = justify ScaleMajor = gridcolor:darkgrey increment:80 start:0 ScaleMinor = gridcolor:lightgrey increment:16 start:0 PlotData= color:yellowgreen width:40 mark:(line,white) align:center bar:1811 from:start till:262 text:"262" bar:1850 from:start till:390 text:"390" bar:1860 from:start till:354 text:"354" bar:1870 from:start till:388 text:"388" bar:1880 from:start till:364 text:"364" bar:1888 from:start till:399 text:"399" bar:1900 from:start till:389 text:"389" bar:1910 from:start till:353 text:"353" bar:1920 from:start till:332 text:"332" bar:1930 from:start till:341 text:"341" bar:1941 from:start till:345 text:"345" bar:1950 from:start till:318 text:"318" bar:1960 from:start till:268 text:"268" bar:1970 from:start till:238 text:"238" bar:1980 from:start till:248 text:"248" bar:1990 from:start till:275 text:"275" bar:2000 from:start till:294 text:"294"


Politics

In the 2011 federal election the most popular party was the CVP which received 26.3% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SP (23.7%), the SVP (22.4%) and the FDP (13.5%).Canton of Fribourg National Council Election of 23 October 2011 Statistics
accessed 3 November 2011
The CVP received about the same percentage of the vote as they did in the 2007 Federal election (31.0% in 2007 vs 26.3% in 2011). The SPS retained about the same popularity (24.7% in 2007), the SVP moved from fourth in 2007 (with 17.9%) to third and the FDP moved from third in 2007 (with 19.2%) to fourth. A total of 127 votes were cast in this election, of which 3 or 2.4% were invalid.


Economy

, Nuvilly had an unemployment rate of 3.4%. , there were 31 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 11 businesses involved in this sector. 11 people were employed in the
secondary sector In macroeconomics, the secondary sector of the economy is an economic sector in the three-sector theory that describes the role of manufacturing. It encompasses industries that produce a finished, usable product or are involved in constructi ...
and there were 4 businesses in this sector. 19 people were employed in the
tertiary sector The tertiary sector of the economy, generally known as the service sector, is the third of the three economic sectors in the three-sector model (also known as the economic cycle). The others are the primary sector (raw materials) and the ...
, with 13 businesses in this sector. There were 143 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 42.7% of the workforce. the total number of
full-time equivalent Full-time equivalent (FTE), or whole time equivalent (WTE), is a unit of measurement that indicates the workload of an employed person (or student) in a way that makes workloads or class loads comparable across various contexts. FTE is often use ...
jobs was 50. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 23, all of which were in agriculture. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 9, all of which were in construction. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 18. In the tertiary sector; 2 or 11.1% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 1 was in the movement and storage of goods, 2 or 11.1% were in a hotel or restaurant, 1 was in the information industry, 1 was the insurance or financial industry, 4 or 22.2% were technical professionals or scientists, 4 or 22.2% were in education and 1 was in health care. The, there were 8 workers who commuted into the municipality and 107 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 13.4 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering.Swiss Federal Statistical Office – Statweb
accessed 24 June 2010
Of the working population, 6.3% used public transportation to get to work, and 69.9% used a private car. As of the rest of the Broye, Nuvilly produces tobacco and sugar beet. More recently and due to the bio-carburant needs, the rapeseed production increased. The lessening of the Federal subvention on milk caused the bovine cattle to decrease in favor of other more remunerating activities (such as the pork and veal breeding for meat purpose).


Religion

From the , 226 or 76.9% were
Roman Catholic The Catholic Church (), also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.27 to 1.41 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2025. It is among the world's oldest and largest international institut ...
, while 34 or 11.6% belonged to the
Swiss Reformed Church The Protestant Church in Switzerland (PCS), formerly named Federation of Swiss Protestant Churches until 31 December 2019, is a federation of 25 member churches – 24 cantonal churches and the Evangelical-Methodist Church of Switzerland. The P ...
. Of the rest of the population, there was 1 individual who belongs to another Christian church. There were 5 (or about 1.70% of the population) who were
Islam Islam is an Abrahamic religions, Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the Quran, and the teachings of Muhammad. Adherents of Islam are called Muslims, who are estimated to number Islam by country, 2 billion worldwide and are the world ...
ic. There were 1 individual who belonged to another church. 16 (or about 5.44% of the population) belonged to no church, are
agnostic Agnosticism is the view or belief that the existence of God, the divine, or the supernatural is either unknowable in principle or unknown in fact. (page 56 in 1967 edition) It can also mean an apathy towards such religious belief and refer to ...
or
atheist Atheism, in the broadest sense, is an absence of belief in the existence of deities. Less broadly, atheism is a rejection of the belief that any deities exist. In an even narrower sense, atheism is specifically the position that there no ...
, and 11 individuals (or about 3.74% of the population) did not answer the question.


Education

In Nuvilly about 99 or (33.7%) of the population have completed non-mandatory
upper secondary education Secondary education is the education level following primary education and preceding tertiary education. Level 2 or ''lower secondary education'' (less commonly ''junior secondary education'') is considered the second and final phase of basic e ...
, and 27 or (9.2%) have completed additional higher education (either
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or a ''
Fachhochschule A (; plural ), abbreviated FH, is a university of applied sciences (UAS), in other words a Hochschule, German tertiary education institution that provides professional education in many applied sciences and applied arts, such as engineering, te ...
''). Of the 27 who completed tertiary schooling, 40.7% were Swiss men, 48.1% were Swiss women. In the canton of Fribourg, compulsory education is divided into three cycles. Nuvilly is part of the ''cercle scolaire Les Montets / Nuvilly'', which includes the localities of Aumont, Frasses, Granges de Vesin,
Les Montets Les Montets is a municipality in the district of Broye, in the canton of Fribourg, Switzerland. In 2004 the municipality was created through the merger of Aumont, Frasses, Granges-de-Vesin and Montet. The catholic church of Nuvilly, consecrated in 1690, in baroque style, is one of the cultural sites of significance of the village. This church is under the patronage of
James the Great James the Great ( Koinē Greek: Ἰάκωβος, romanized: ''Iákōbos''; Aramaic: ܝܥܩܘܒ, romanized: ''Yaʿqōḇ''; died AD 44) was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus. According to the New Testament, he was the second of the apostles t ...
. The church was renewed between 2006 and 2007 and is well preserved. Visitors would be able to admire stained glass windows including one of
Joseph Joseph is a common male name, derived from the Hebrew (). "Joseph" is used, along with " Josef", mostly in English, French and partially German languages. This spelling is also found as a variant in the languages of the modern-day Nordic count ...
and one of
Bernadette Bernadette is a French language, French name, a female form of the name Bernard, which means "brave bear". Notable persons with the name include: People * Bernadette (singer) (born 1959), Dutch singer * Bernadette Allen (born 1956), American for ...
, as well as a triptych on both sides of the choir and on its anterior part. The church is a good example of the local architecture.


References

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