Saint-Aubin-Sauges

Saint-Aubin-Sauges is first mentioned in 1176 as Sancti Albini. In 1340 it was mentioned as villa de Sauges. ==Geography==

Saint-Aubin-Sauges has an area, , of . Of this area, or 47.7% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 38.3% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 13.5% is settled (buildings or roads) and or 0.3% is unproductive land. Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 7.8% and transportation infrastructure made up 3.5%. Out of the forested land, 35.0% of the total land area is heavily forested and 3.2% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 16.9% is used for growing crops and 13.6% is pastures, while 3.9% is used for orchards or vine crops and 13.4% is used for alpine pastures. ==Coat of arms==

The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Impaled, per pale Argent and Gules a Rose counterchanged, and per pale Argent three bars Gules and Gules a Rose counterchanged. ==Demographics==

Saint-Aubin-Sauges has a population () of . , 21.2% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (2000–2010 ) the population has changed at a rate of 0.8%. It has changed at a rate of 0.6% due to migration and at a rate of 1% due to births and deaths. Most of the population () speaks French (2,054 or 84.7%) as their first language, Portuguese is the second most common (106 or 4.4%) and German is the third (105 or 4.3%). There are 90 people who speak Italian and 1 person who speaks Romansh. Of the population in the municipality, 587 or about 24.2% were born in Saint-Aubin-Sauges and lived there in 2000. There were 603 or 24.9% who were born in the same canton, while 592 or 24.4% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 582 or 24.0% were born outside of Switzerland. , there were 1,008 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.3 persons per household. , the construction rate of new housing units was 0.4 new units per 1000 residents. Colors= id:lightgrey value:gray(0.9) id:darkgrey value:gray(0.8) ImageSize = width:1100 height:500 PlotArea = height:350 left: 100 bottom:90 right:100 Legend = columns:3 left:220 top:70 columnwidth:160 AlignBars = justify DateFormat = x.y Period = from:0 till:2500 TimeAxis = orientation:vertical AlignBars = justify ScaleMajor = gridcolor:darkgrey increment:500 start:0 ScaleMinor = gridcolor:lightgrey increment:100 start:0 Colors= id:TO value:yellowgreen legend:Saint-Aubin-Sauges id:ST value:teal legend:Saint-Aubin id:SA value:green legend:Sauges PlotData= color:yellowgreen width:40 mark:(line,white) align:center bar:1784 from:start till:270 text:"270" color:ST bar:1784 from:270 till:368 text:"98" color:SA bar:1850 from:start till:530 text:"530" color:ST bar:1850 from:530 till:778 text:"248" color:SA bar:1860 from:start till:820 text:"820" bar:1870 from:start till:809 text:"809" bar:1880 from:start till:675 text:"675" color:ST bar:1880 from:675 till:938 text:"263" color:SA bar:1888 from:start till:990 text:"990" bar:1900 from:start till:1105 text:"1,105" bar:1910 from:start till:1207 text:"1,207" bar:1920 from:start till:1239 text:"1,239" bar:1930 from:start till:1174 text:"1,174" bar:1941 from:start till:1238 text:"1,238" bar:1950 from:start till:1358 text:"1,358" bar:1960 from:start till:1560 text:"1,560" bar:1970 from:start till:2058 text:"2,058" bar:1980 from:start till:2085 text:"2,085" bar:1990 from:start till:2253 text:"2,253" bar:2000 from:start till:2426 text:"2,426" ==Heritage sites of national significance==

The Le Béroche, a Gallo-Roman settlement, and the Neolithic settlement at Port Conty / Tivoli are listed as Swiss heritage site of national significance. World Heritage Site It is home to the Port-Conty prehistoric pile-dwelling (or stilt house) settlement that is part of the Prehistoric Pile dwellings around the Alps UNESCO World Heritage Site. Port-Conty has two Neolithic settlements. The first is a Late Cortaillod or Port-Conty type Cortaillod village. One piece of timber from this site has been dated to 3574. The second village is a Late Horgen village. Five of the piles are from 3160 and 3159, and two piles are from 3064 and 3062. The site was discovered in 1860 by F. Troyon, who originally thought it was a Bronze Age village. Further excavations in the late 19th and early 20th century found that it was a Neolithic site. In 1929-1932, P. Vouga dug a long () deep trench to examine a single layer. He found three archaeological horizons which were from the Middle Neolithic, the Late Neolithic and the end of the Late Neolithic. Based on his study, it appears that the site was covered by an artificial mound which was and about deep. It was built in two stages, with a layer of branches between the layers. File:La Béroche établissement gallo-romain.jpg|La Béroche site File:St-Aubin-Sauges Port Conty DSC9853 20110923.jpg|Port Conty ==Twin Town==

Saint-Aubin-Sauges is twinned with the town of Untersiggenthal, Solothurn. ==Politics==

In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SP which received 27.34% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the LPS Party (18.64%), the SVP (18.46%) and the FDP (10.68%). In the federal election, a total of 779 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 50.7%. ==Economy==

, Saint-Aubin-Sauges had an unemployment rate of 5.8%. , there were 31 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 13 businesses involved in this sector. 295 people were employed in the secondary sector and there were 37 businesses in this sector. 505 people were employed in the tertiary sector, with 78 businesses in this sector. , there were 418 workers who commuted into the municipality and 760 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 1.8 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering. About 1.9% of the workforce coming into Saint-Aubin-Sauges are coming from outside Switzerland. Of the working population, 10.1% used public transportation to get to work, and 63.4% used a private car. ==Religion==

From the , 793 or 32.7% were Roman Catholic, while 860 or 35.4% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church. Of the rest of the population, there were 31 members of an Orthodox church (or about 1.28% of the population), there was 1 individual who belongs to the Christian Catholic Church, and there were 211 individuals (or about 8.70% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There were 3 individuals (or about 0.12% of the population) who were Jewish, and 23 (or about 0.95% of the population) who were Islamic. There were 4 individuals who were Buddhist and 6 individuals who belonged to another church. 507 (or about 20.90% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic or atheist, and 92 individuals (or about 3.79% of the population) did not answer the question. ==Education==

In Saint-Aubin-Sauges about 874 or (36.0%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 315 or (13.0%) have completed additional higher education (either university or a Fachhochschule). Of the 315 who completed tertiary schooling, 50.5% were Swiss men, 32.4% were Swiss women, 11.1% were non-Swiss men and 6.0% were non-Swiss women. The kindergarten in Saint-Aubin-Sauges is combined with Vaumarcus. During the 2010-11 school year, there were 3 kindergarten classes with a total of 50 students between the municipalities. In the same year, there were 7 primary classes with a total of 133 students. , there were 26 students in Saint-Aubin-Sauges who came from another municipality, while 192 residents attended schools outside the municipality. ==References==