Villaz-Saint-Pierre

Geschichte

Villaz-Saint-Pierre is a municipality in the district of Glâne in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland.HistoryVillaz-Saint-Pierre is first mentioned in 1177 as Villa.GeographyVillaz-Saint-Pierre has an area, of 5.6km2. Of this area, 3.44km2 or 61.5% is used for agricultural purposes, while 1.32km2 or 23.6% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 0.74km2 or 13.2% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.03km2 or 0.5% is either rivers or lakes.Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 5.7% and transportation infrastructure made up 5.2%. Out of the forested land, all of the forested land area is covered with heavy forests. Of the agricultural land, 32.0% is used for growing crops and 29.0% is pastures. All the water in the municipality is flowing water.It consists of the villages of Villaz-Saint-Pierre and Fuyens. On 1 January 1978 the former municipality of Fuyens merged into the municipality of Villaz-Saint-Pierre.Coat of armsThe blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Gules, a Saltire Argent.DemographicsVillaz-Saint-Pierre has a population of., 10.6% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (2000–2010) the population has changed at a rate of 6.5%. Migration accounted for 1.5%, while births and deaths accounted for 6.3%.Most of the population speaks French (819 or 89.3%) as their first language, German is the second most common (26 or 2.8%) and Albanian is the third (21 or 2.3%). There are 6 people who speak Italian.