Rossinière is a municipality in the Riviera-Pays-d'Enhaut district of the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.

[3] Rossinière has an area, as of 2009[update], of 23.4 square kilometers (9.0 sq mi).

[5] The municipality is located near the Saane/Sarine river, at the foot of the Pointe de Cray (a buttress of the Vanil Noir range) and facing the Planachaux mountain.

It consists of the village of Rossinière and the hamlet of La Tine and scattered individual houses.

[8] Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks French (453 or 89.3%), with German being second most common (22 or 4.3%) and Albanian being third (14 or 2.8%).

[9] The age distribution, as of 2009[update], in Rossinière is; 57 children or 11.4% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 54 teenagers or 10.8% are between 10 and 19.

The entire village of Rossinière is part of the Inventory of Swiss Heritage Sites.

In the federal election, a total of 143 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 41.2%.

[8] There were 227 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 47.6% of the workforce.

In the tertiary sector; 7 or 9.0% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 3 or 3.8% were in the movement and storage of goods, 9 or 11.5% were in a hotel or restaurant, 1 was in the information industry, 8 or 10.3% were technical professionals or scientists, 3 or 3.8% were in education and 33 or 42.3% were in health care.

[8] From the 2000 census[update], 51 or 10.1% were Roman Catholic, while 317 or 62.5% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church.

In the Vaud cantonal school system, two years of non-obligatory pre-school are provided by the political districts.

The canton's primary school program requires students to attend for four years.

[16] The 1950 children's book Treasures of the Snow[19] by Patricia St. John, and its 1983 Japanese anime adaption, Story of the Alps: My Annette,[20] were set in Rossinière.