Villars-sur-Glâne

Geschichte

Villars-sur-Glâne is a municipality in the district of Sarine in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland.GeographyVillars-sur-Glâne has an area, of 5.5km2. Of this area, 1.61km2 or 29.3% is used for agricultural purposes, while 0.96km2 or 17.5% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 2.83km2 or 51.5% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.07km2 or 1.3% is either rivers or lakes.Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 4.9% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 27.7% and transportation infrastructure made up 13.8%. Power and water infrastructure as well as other special developed areas made up 2.7% of the area while parks, green belts and sports fields made up 2.4%. Out of the forested land, all of the forested land area is covered with heavy forests. Of the agricultural land, 16.8% is used for growing crops and 12.0% is pastures. All the water in the municipality is flowing water.Coat of armsThe blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Azure a Saltire Argent and in chief a Fleur de lis of the same.DemographicsVillars-sur-Glâne has a population of., 29.1% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (2000–2010) the population has changed at a rate of 22.6%. Migration accounted for 14.5%, while births and deaths accounted for 8.1%.Most of the population speaks French (7,211 or 77.2%) as their first language, German is the second most common (1,022 or 10.9%) and Portuguese is the third (216 or 2.3%). There are 185 people who speak Italian and 3 people who speak Romansh.