Lovatens () is a
municipality
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in the district
Broye-Vully in the
canton of
Vaud
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in
Switzerland
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History
Lovatens is first mentioned between 996 and 1017 as ''Lovatingis''.
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Geography
Lovatens has an area, , of . Of this area, or 78.1% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 17.9% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 3.7% 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 1.4% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.3%. Out of the forested land, 16.4% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.4% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 60.8% is used for growing crops and 17.0% is pastures.[
The municipality was part of the ]Moudon District Moudon was a district in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland. The seat of the district was the town of Moudon.
The district consisted of 32 municipalities and had an area of 119.61 km2 with a population of 12273 inhabitants (End of 2003).
Mergers ...
until it was dissolved on 31 August 2006, and Lovatens became part of the new district of Broye-Vully.[Nomenklaturen – Amtliches Gemeindeverzeichnis der Schweiz]
accessed 4 April 2011
The municipality is located to the right of the Broye
The Broye (; ''Dictionnaire-Dikchenéro: Français-Patois/Patê-Franché''. Société cantonale des patoisans fribourgeois. Fribourg: 2013. p. 87 ) is a 68 km long river, in the cantons of Fribourg and Vaud, in Switzerland. It has a watershe ...
river. It consists of the village of Lovatens and the hamlets
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of Colans and Prassy.
Coat of arms
The blazon
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of the municipal coat of arms
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is ''Per bend Argent and Gules, overall a Minerva's head Or.''
Demographics
Lovatens has a population () of . , 0.7% 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 (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of 0.7%. It has changed at a rate of 4.9% due to migration and at a rate of -4.9% due to births and deaths.
accessed 11-May-2011German
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being second most common (7 or 4.6%) and English being third (3 or 2.0%).[
Of the population in the municipality 57 or about 37.7% were born in Lovatens and lived there in 2000. There were 52 or 34.4% who were born in the same canton, while 27 or 17.9% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 12 or 7.9% were born outside of Switzerland.][
In there were live births to Swiss citizens and were 3 deaths of Swiss citizens. Ignoring immigration and emigration, the population of Swiss citizens decreased by 3 while the foreign population remained the same. The total Swiss population change in 2008 (from all sources, including moves across municipal borders) was a decrease of 8 and the non-Swiss population decreased by 1 people. This represents a ]population growth rate
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of -6.2%.[
The age distribution, , in Lovatens is; 17 children or 11.9% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 18 teenagers or 12.6% are between 10 and 19. Of the adult population, 16 people or 11.2% of the population are between 20 and 29 years old. 15 people or 10.5% are between 30 and 39, 27 people or 18.9% are between 40 and 49, and 14 people or 9.8% are between 50 and 59. The senior population distribution is 16 people or 11.2% of the population are between 60 and 69 years old, 12 people or 8.4% are between 70 and 79, there are 5 people or 3.5% who are between 80 and 89, and there are 3 people or 2.1% who are 90 and older.][Canton of Vaud Statistical Office]
accessed 29 April 2011
, there were 69 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 64 married individuals, 8 widows or widowers and 10 individuals who are divorced.[STAT-TAB Datenwürfel für Thema 40.3 - 2000]
accessed 2 February 2011
, there were 58 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.6 persons per household.[ There were 17 households that consist of only one person and 6 households with five or more people. Out of a total of 59 households that answered this question, 28.8% were households made up of just one person and there was 1 adult who lived with their parents. Of the rest of the households, there are 12 married couples without children, 22 married couples with children There were 5 single parents with a child or children. There was 1 household that was made up of unrelated people and 1 household that was made up of some sort of institution or another collective housing.][
there were 26 single family homes (or 54.2% of the total) out of a total of 48 inhabited buildings. There were 3 multi-family buildings (6.3%), along with 17 multi-purpose buildings that were mostly used for housing (35.4%) and 2 other use buildings (commercial or industrial) that also had some housing (4.2%). Of the single family homes 17 were built before 1919, while 2 were built between 1990 and 2000. The most multi-family homes (3) were built before 1919 and the next most () were built between 1919 and 1945.][Swiss Federal Statistical Office STAT-TAB - Datenwürfel für Thema 09.2 - Gebäude und Wohnungen]
accessed 28 January 2011
there were 61 apartments in the municipality. The most common apartment size was 5 rooms of which there were 19. There were single room apartments and 34 apartments with five or more rooms. Of these apartments, a total of 58 apartments (95.1% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 2 apartments (3.3%) were seasonally occupied and 1 apartments (1.6%) were empty.[ , the construction rate of new housing units was 0 new units per 1000 residents.][ The vacancy rate for the municipality, , was 0%.][
The historical population is given in the following chart:]
Sights
The entire village of Lovatens is designated as part of the Inventory of Swiss Heritage Sites
The Federal Inventory of Heritage Sites (ISOS) 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
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Politics
In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SVP which received 48.05% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SP (18.07%), the Green Party
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Green party platforms typically embrace Social democracy, social democratic economic policies and fo ...
(12.32%) and the FDP (6.57%). In the federal election, a total of 55 votes were cast, and the voter turnout
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was 49.1%.
Economy
, Lovatens had an unemployment rate of 2.7%. , there were 24 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 9 businesses involved in this sector. people were employed in the secondary sector
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and there were businesses in this sector. 4 people were employed in the tertiary sector
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, with 1 business in this sector.[ There were 62 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 43.5% of the workforce.
the total number of ]full-time equivalent
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jobs was 21. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 17, all of which were in agriculture. There were no jobs in the secondary sector. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 4, all in the sale or repair of motor vehicles.
, there were 42 workers who commuted away from the municipality.[Swiss Federal Statistical Office - Statweb]
accessed 24 June 2010 Of the working population, 11.3% used public transportation to get to work, and 56.5% used a private car.[
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Religion
From the , 19 or 12.6% were Roman Catholic
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, while 90 or 59.6% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church
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. There was 1 individual who was Islam
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ic. 40 (or about 26.49% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic
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or atheist
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, and 1 individuals (or about 0.66% of the population) did not answer the question.[
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Education
In Lovatens about 51 or (33.8%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 19 or (12.6%) have completed additional higher education (either university
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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 19 who completed tertiary schooling, 52.6% were Swiss men, 36.8% were Swiss women.[
In the 2009/2010 school year there were a total of 17 students in the Lovatens school district. In the Vaud cantonal school system, two years of non-obligatory pre-school are provided by the political districts.Organigramme de l'école vaudoise, année scolaire 2009-2010]
accessed 2 May 2011 During the school year, the political district provided pre-school care for a total of 155 children of which 83 children (53.5%) received subsidized pre-school care. The canton's primary school
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program requires students to attend for four years. There were 11 students in the municipal primary school program. The obligatory lower secondary school program lasts for six years and there were 6 students in those schools.[Canton of Vaud Statistical Office - Scol. obligatoire/filières de transition]
accessed 2 May 2011
, there were 39 students from Lovatens who attended schools outside the municipality.[
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References
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Cultural property of national significance in the canton of Vaud