Rechthalten

Geschichte

Rechthalten is a municipality in the district of Sense, in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland. It was known in French as Dirlaret, but this name is no longer used. It is one of the municipalities with a large majority of German speakers in the mostly French speaking Canton of Fribourg.HistoryRechthalten is first mentioned in 1142 as Drallaris. In 1173 it was mentioned as de Recto Clivo, followed in 1180 by Dreitlaris and in 1250 it was Rehthalton.GeographyRechthalten has an area of. Of this area, 5.37km2 or 73.7% is used for agricultural purposes, while 1.33km2 or 18.2% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 0.52km2 or 7.1% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.04km2 or 0.5% is either rivers or lakes and 0.04km2 or 0.5% is unproductive land.Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 4.3% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.2%. Out of the forested land, 17.1% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.1% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 28.7% is used for growing crops and 44.0% is pastures. All the water in the municipality is flowing water.The municipality is located in the Sense district, about 8km south-east of Fribourg. It consists of the haufendorf village (an irregular, unplanned and quite closely packed village, built around a central square) of Rechthalten along with scattered hamlets and farm houses.Coat of armsThe blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Sable on a Pale Argent three Fleurs-de-lys Azure.