Rebeuvelier () is a former

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in the district of

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in the

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of Jura in

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. On 1 January 2019 the former municipalities of Rebeuvelier and

Vellerat Vellerat () is a former municipalities of Switzerland, municipality in the district of Delémont (district), Delémont in the Cantons of Switzerland, canton of Jura (canton), Jura in Switzerland. On 1 January 2019, the former municipalities of Re ...

merged into the municipality of

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History

Rebeuvelier is first mentioned in 1148 as ''Rebonvillier''. The municipality was formerly known by its German name ''Rippertswiler'', however, that name is no longer used.

Geography

Rebeuvelier has an area of . Of this area, or 48.0% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 49.1% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 3.1% 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 2.0% and transportation infrastructure made up 0.5%. Out of the forested land, 46.0% of the total land area is heavily forested and 3.1% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 11.1% is used for growing crops and 18.3% is pastures and 18.5% is used for alpine pastures. The municipality is located in the Delemont district, east of the

Moutier Moutier () is a Municipalities of Switzerland, municipality in Switzerland. Currently, the town belongs to the Jura bernois (administrative district), Jura bernois administrative district of the Cantons of Switzerland, canton of Bern (canton), Ber ...

road. The municipal area includes the highest point in the Canton of Jura, the peak of Mont Raimeux ().

Coat of arms

The

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of the municipal

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is ''Argent, issuant from Coupeaux Gules three trefoils, outer two in saltire.''

Demographics

Rebeuvelier has a population () of . , 1.6% 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 15%. Migration accounted for 3.3%, while births and deaths accounted for 7.2%.
accessed 22-December-2011 Most of the population () speaks

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(294 or 93.6%) as their first language,

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is the second most common (16 or 5.1%) and

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is the third (2 or 0.6%). , the population was 52.7% male and 47.3% female. The population was made up of 197 Swiss men (51.4% of the population) and 5 (1.3%) non-Swiss men. There were 179 Swiss women (46.7%) and 2 (0.5%) non-Swiss women. Of the population in the municipality, 121 or about 38.5% were born in Rebeuvelier and lived there in 2000. There were 106 or 33.8% who were born in the same canton, while 60 or 19.1% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 18 or 5.7% were born outside of Switzerland. , children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 28.7% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 59.9% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 11.5%. , there were 133 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 165 married individuals, 10 widows or widowers and 6 individuals who are divorced.STAT-TAB Datenwürfel für Thema 40.3 - 2000
accessed 2 February 2011 , there were 112 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.7 persons per household. There were 23 households that consist of only one person and 13 households with five or more people. , a total of 107 apartments (83.6% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 16 apartments (12.5%) were seasonally occupied and 5 apartments (3.9%) 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 2.6 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:1818 from:start till:278 text:"278" bar:1850 from:start till:332 text:"332" bar:1860 from:start till:390 text:"390" bar:1870 from:start till:360 text:"360" bar:1880 from:start till:380 text:"380" bar:1888 from:start till:362 text:"362" bar:1900 from:start till:392 text:"392" bar:1910 from:start till:382 text:"382" bar:1920 from:start till:387 text:"387" bar:1930 from:start till:360 text:"360" bar:1941 from:start till:296 text:"296" bar:1950 from:start till:259 text:"259" bar:1960 from:start till:266 text:"266" bar:1970 from:start till:240 text:"240" bar:1980 from:start till:220 text:"220" bar:1990 from:start till:271 text:"271" bar:2000 from:start till:314 text:"314"

Politics

In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SPS which received 49.55% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SVP (18.75%), the CVP (14.73%) and the CSP (11.16%). In the federal election, a total of 112 votes were cast, and the

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was 41.3%.

Economy

, Rebeuvelier had an unemployment rate of 5.5%. , there were 24 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 7 businesses involved in this sector. 44 people were employed in the

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and there were 5 businesses in this sector. 36 people were employed in the

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, with 9 businesses in this sector. There were 161 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 41.6% of the workforce. the total number of

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jobs was 82. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 16, all of which were in agriculture. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 40 of which 28 or (70.0%) were in manufacturing and 12 (30.0%) were in construction. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 26. In the tertiary sector; 1 was in the sale or repair of motor vehicles, 2 or 7.7% were in the movement and storage of goods, 11 or 42.3% were in a hotel or restaurant, 8 or 30.8% were technical professionals or scientists, 5 or 19.2% were in education. , there were 23 workers who commuted into the municipality and 117 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 5.1 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering.Swiss Federal Statistical Office - Statweb
accessed 24 June 2010 Of the working population, 5.6% used public transportation to get to work, and 72% used a private car.

Religion

From the , 217 or 69.1% were

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, while 54 or 17.2% belonged to the

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. Of the rest of the population, there were 3 members of an Orthodox church (or about 0.96% of the population), and there were 18 individuals (or about 5.73% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There was 1 individual who was

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ic. 27 (or about 8.60% of the population) belonged to no church, are

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, and 3 individuals (or about 0.96% of the population) did not answer the question.

Education

In Rebeuvelier about 132 or (42.0%) of the population have completed non-mandatory

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, and 21 or (6.7%) have completed additional higher education (either

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or a ''

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''). Of the 21 who completed tertiary schooling, 71.4% were Swiss men, 23.8% were Swiss women. The Canton of Jura school system provides two year of non-obligatory

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, 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 followed by some form of Tertiary school or they may enter an

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. During the 2009-10 school year, there were a total of 41 students attending 4 classes in Rebeuvelier. There was one kindergarten class with a total of 13 students in the municipality.Effectifs de l'école enfantine 2009-2010
accessed 19 December 2011 The municipality had 2.5 primary classes and 28 students.
accessed 19 December 2011 There are only nine Secondary schools in the canton, so all the students from Rebeuvelier attend their secondary school in another municipality. , there were 24 students from Rebeuvelier who attended schools outside the municipality.

References

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