Semsales

Geschichte

Semsales is a municipality in the district of Veveyse in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland.HistorySemsales is first mentioned about 1100 as septem salis.GeographySemsales has an area of. Of this area, 13.68km2 or 46.6% is used for agricultural purposes, while 14.14km2 or 48.2% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 1km2 or 3.4% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.14km2 or 0.5% is either rivers or lakes and 0.43km2 or 1.5% is unproductive land.Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 1.5% and transportation infrastructure made up 1.6%. Out of the forested land, 45.3% of the total land area is heavily forested and 2.4% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 5.7% is used for growing crops and 20.3% is pastures and 20.4% is used for alpine pastures. All the water in the municipality is flowing water.The municipality is located in the Veveyse district, at the foot of the Fribourg pre-alpine mountains (Niremont, Les Alpettes). It lies along an important transportation axis including; the Bulle-Châtel-Saint-Denis road, the A12 motorway and the Bulle-Palézieux rail line. It consists of the village of Semsales and, since 1 January 1968, the former municipality of La Rougève.Coat of armsThe blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Azure two Columns issuant from as many Mounts all Argent encircled with seven Mullet of Five three and two and two.