Tavel (Fribourg)

Geschichte

Tafers is a municipality in the district of Sense in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland. It is one of the municipalities with a large majority of German speakers in the mostly French speaking Canton of Fribourg.GeographyTafers has an area of. Of this area, 5.33km2 or 63.5% is used for agricultural purposes, while 1.78km2 or 21.2% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 1.25km2 or 14.9% is settled (buildings or roads) and 0.01km2 or 0.1% is unproductive land.Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 1.8% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 9.2% and transportation infrastructure made up 3.1%. Out of the forested land, all of the forested land area is covered with heavy forests. Of the agricultural land, 40.0% is used for growing crops and 22.6% is pastures.Coat of armsThe blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Gules, a Guard stantant afrontee clad Azure and Sable ensigned with a Cross on sinister, holding in dexter a Halberd Argent.DemographicsTafers has a population of., 10.8% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (2000–2010) the population has changed at a rate of 4.9%. Migration accounted for 7.8%, while births and deaths accounted for 2.4%.Most of the population speaks German (2,361 or 89.9%) as their first language, French is the second most common (117 or 4.5%) and Serbo-Croatian is the third (35 or 1.3%). There are 10 people who speak Italian and 1 person who speaks Romansh.