Saint-Aubin-Sauges

Geschichte

Saint-Aubin-Sauges is a municipality in the district of Boudry in the canton of Neuchâtel in Switzerland.HistorySaint-Aubin-Sauges is first mentioned in 1176 as Sancti Albini. In 1340 it was mentioned as villa de Sauges.GeographySaint-Aubin-Sauges has an area, of 7.7km2. Of this area, 3.68km2 or 47.7% is used for agricultural purposes, while 2.95km2 or 38.3% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 1.04km2 or 13.5% is settled (buildings or roads) and 0.02km2 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.The municipality is located in the Boudry district, in the La Béroche region. It stretched from the shores of Lake Neuchatel to an elevation of 1436m. It consists of the villages of Saint-Aubin and Sauges, which merged in 1888.Coat of armsThe 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.DemographicsSaint-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.