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Saint-Saphorin () is a
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in the
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of
Vaud Vaud ( ; , ), more formally Canton of Vaud, is one of the Cantons of Switzerland, 26 cantons forming the Switzerland, Swiss Confederation. It is composed of Subdivisions of the canton of Vaud, ten districts; its capital city is Lausanne. Its coat ...
, located on the shore of
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, in the district of Lavaux-Oron.


History

Glerula or Calarona (from , 'gravel') was a
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village. The chroniclers
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and Marius of Avenches described what is now called the
Tauredunum event The Tauredunum event () of 563 AD was a tsunami on Lake Geneva (then under the Frankish territory of the Kingdom of Orleans), triggered by a massive landslide which caused widespread devastation and loss of life along the lakeshore. According to ...
of 563. A landslip into the eastern end of Lake Geneva caused a
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which swept along the lake causing immense damage. Glerula was among the villages which were destroyed. It was never rebuilt. Instead, a new community was founded a short distance to the east, taking its name from the new church there, dedicated to Saint-Symphorien. That name has, with the passage of years, transformed into Saint-Saphorin. Saint-Saphorin (Lavaux) is first mentioned in 1138 as ''de Sancto Sufforiano''.


Geography

Saint-Saphorin (Lavaux) has an area, , of . Of this area, or 56.2% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 11.2% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 30.3% 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 11.2% and transportation infrastructure made up 18.0%. while parks, green belts and sports fields made up 1.1%. Out of the forested land, 9.0% of the total land area is heavily forested and 2.2% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 11.2% is used for growing crops and 12.4% is pastures, while 32.6% is used for orchards or vine crops. The municipality was part of the
Lavaux District Lavaux District was a district located on the north-eastern shore of Lake Geneva (''Lac Léman'') in the Swiss-romand canton of Vaud between Lausanne and Vevey. The capital of the district was Cully, but used to be Lutry. The district is part of ...
until it was dissolved on 31 August 2006, and Saint-Saphorin (Lavaux) became part of the new district of Lavaux-Oron.Nomenklaturen – Amtliches Gemeindeverzeichnis der Schweiz
accessed 4 April 2011
It consists of the village of Saint-Saphorin and the
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of Glérolles, Les Faverges, Ogoz and Lignières.


Coat of arms

The
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of the municipal
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is ''Per fess Argent and Gules, overall a Bend wavy counterchanged.''


Demographics

Saint-Saphorin (Lavaux) has a population () of . , 24.9% 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 2.2%. It has changed at a rate of -5% due to migration and at a rate of 6.6% due to births and deaths.
accessed 15-June-2011
Most of the population () speaks
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(307 or 88.2%), with
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being second most common (19 or 5.5%) and
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being third (10 or 2.9%). There are 2 people who speak
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. Of the population in the municipality 97 or about 27.9% were born in Saint-Saphorin (Lavaux) and lived there in 2000. There were 119 or 34.2% who were born in the same canton, while 63 or 18.1% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 61 or 17.5% were born outside of Switzerland. In there were 4 live births to Swiss citizens and 3 births to non-Swiss citizens, and in same time span there were 2 deaths of Swiss citizens. Ignoring immigration and emigration, the population of Swiss citizens increased by 2 while the foreign population increased by 3. There were 2 Swiss men who emigrated from Switzerland and 1 Swiss woman who immigrated back to Switzerland. At the same time, there were 3 non-Swiss men and 8 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 a decrease of 21 and the non-Swiss population increased by 15 people. This represents a
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of -1.6%. The age distribution of the population () is children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 20.7% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 66.1% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 13.2%. , there were 144 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 148 married individuals, 16 widows or widowers and 40 individuals who are divorced.STAT-TAB Datenwürfel für Thema 40.3 - 2000
accessed 2 February 2011
, there were 159 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.1 persons per household. There were 60 households that consist of only one person and 7 households with five or more people. Out of a total of 164 households that answered this question, 36.6% were households made up of just one person. Of the rest of the households, there are 49 married couples without children, 40 married couples with children There were 8 single parents with a child or children. There were 2 households that were made up of unrelated people and 5 households that were made up of some sort of institution or another collective housing. there were 53 single family homes (or 48.2% of the total) out of a total of 110 inhabited buildings. There were 39 multi-family buildings (35.5%), along with 12 multi-purpose buildings that were mostly used for housing (10.9%) and 6 other use buildings (commercial or industrial) that also had some housing (5.5%). Of the single family homes 37 were built before 1919, while 3 were built between 1990 and 2000. The most multi-family homes (28) were built before 1919 and the next most (3) were built between 1961 and 1970.Swiss Federal Statistical Office STAT-TAB - Datenwürfel für Thema 09.2 - Gebäude und Wohnungen
accessed 28 January 2011
there were 198 apartments in the municipality. The most common apartment size was 4 rooms of which there were 54. There were 15 single room apartments and 49 apartments with five or more rooms. Of these apartments, a total of 152 apartments (76.8% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 41 apartments (20.7%) were seasonally occupied and 5 apartments (2.5%) were empty. , the construction rate of new housing units was 0 new units per 1000 residents. The vacancy rate for the municipality, , was 3.03%. 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:530 TimeAxis = orientation:vertical AlignBars = justify ScaleMajor = gridcolor:darkgrey increment:100 start:0 ScaleMinor = gridcolor:lightgrey increment:20 start:0 PlotData= color:yellowgreen width:40 mark:(line,white) align:center bar:1764 from:start till:211 text:"211" bar:1850 from:start till:357 text:"357" bar:1860 from:start till:524 text:"524" bar:1870 from:start till:362 text:"362" bar:1880 from:start till:404 text:"404" bar:1888 from:start till:413 text:"413" bar:1900 from:start till:410 text:"410" bar:1910 from:start till:393 text:"393" bar:1920 from:start till:351 text:"351" bar:1930 from:start till:373 text:"373" bar:1941 from:start till:319 text:"319" bar:1950 from:start till:315 text:"315" bar:1960 from:start till:281 text:"281" bar:1970 from:start till:245 text:"245" bar:1980 from:start till:309 text:"309" bar:1990 from:start till:349 text:"349" bar:2000 from:start till:348 text:"348"


Heritage sites of national significance

The Swiss Reformed Church of Saint-Symphorien with a Gallo-Roman villa as well as part of the
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:
Lavaux Lavaux () is a region in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland, in the district of Lavaux-Oron. Lavaux consists of 830 hectares of terraced vineyards that stretch for about 30 km along the south-facing northern shores of Lake Geneva. Although ...
, Vineyard Terraces are listed as Swiss heritage site of national significance. The entire village of Saint-Saphorin is part of the
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.


Politics

In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SP which received 27.84% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the FDP (19.92%), the
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(17.15%) and the SVP (9.64%). In the federal election, a total of 138 votes were cast, and the
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was 57.5%.


Economy

, Saint-Saphorin (Lavaux) had an unemployment rate of 1.6%. , there were 28 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 6 businesses involved in this sector. 1 person was employed in the
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and there was 1 business in this sector. 46 people were employed in the
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, with 12 businesses in this sector. There were 205 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 46.3% of the workforce. the total number of
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jobs was 63. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 20, all of which were in agriculture. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 1, all of which were in manufacturing. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 42. In the tertiary sector; 9 or 21.4% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 21 or 50.0% were in a hotel or restaurant, 7 or 16.7% were in the information industry, 1 was the insurance or financial industry, 1 was a technical professional or scientist. , there were 10 workers who commuted into the municipality and 148 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 14.8 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering.Swiss Federal Statistical Office - Statweb
accessed 24 June 2010
Of the working population, 16.6% used public transportation to get to work, and 60% used a private car.


Religion

From the , 80 or 23.0% were
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, while 194 or 55.7% belonged to the
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. Of the rest of the population, there were 3 members of an Orthodox church (or about 0.86% of the population), and there were 4 individuals (or about 1.15% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There was 1 individual who was
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, and 60 (or about 17.24% of the population) belonged to no church, are
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or
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, and 8 individuals (or about 2.30% of the population) did not answer the question.


Education

In Saint-Saphorin (Lavaux) about 144 or (41.4%) of the population have completed non-mandatory
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, and 69 or (19.8%) have completed additional higher education (either
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or a ''
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''). Of the 69 who completed tertiary schooling, 44.9% were Swiss men, 36.2% were Swiss women, 13.0% were non-Swiss men. In the 2009/2010 school year there were a total of 32 students in the Saint-Saphorin (Lavaux) 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 665 children of which 232 children (34.9%) received subsidized pre-school care. The canton's
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program requires students to attend for four years. There were 20 students in the municipal primary school program. The obligatory lower secondary school program lasts for six years and there were 12 students in those schools.Canton of Vaud Statistical Office - Scol. obligatoire/filières de transition
accessed 2 May 2011
, there were 48 students from Saint-Saphorin (Lavaux) who attended schools outside the municipality.


Transportation

The municipality has a railway station, , on the Simplon line. It has regular service to , , and .


See also

* Glérolles Castle


Notes and references


External links


Official website
* {{DEFAULTSORT:S Saphorin Populated places on Lake Geneva Cultural property of national significance in the canton of Vaud