Courgevaux

Geschichte

Courgevaux is a municipality in the district of See or district du Lac in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland.HistoryCourgevaux is first mentioned in 1055 as Corgivul.GeographyCourgevaux has an area, of 3.4km2. Of this area, 1.96km2 or 58.3% is used for agricultural purposes, while 0.89km2 or 26.5% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 0.54km2 or 16.1% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.02km2 or 0.6% is either rivers or lakes.Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 2.1% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 6.5% and transportation infrastructure made up 6.0%. Out of the forested land, 23.5% of the total land area is heavily forested and 3.0% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 41.1% is used for growing crops and 15.5% is pastures, while 1.8% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is flowing water.The municipality is located in the See/Lac district, on the Murten-Fribourg road.Coat of armsThe blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Sable, a Wolf rampant Argent langued Gules.DemographicsCourgevaux has a population of., 27.0% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (2000–2010) the population has changed at a rate of 38.3%. Migration accounted for 35.7%, while births and deaths accounted for 2.9%.A little more than half of the population speaks German (510 or 56.5%) as their first language, French is the second most common (272 or 40.1%) and Portuguese is the third (36 or 4.0%). There are 29 people who speak Italian.