Wallenried

Geschichte

Wallenried is a former municipality in the district of See in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland. It was one of the municipalities with a large minority of German speakers in a French speaking region.GeographyWallenried had an area of 3.86km2. Of this area, 2.39km2 or 61.9% is used for agricultural purposes, while 0.67km2 or 17.4% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 0.81km2 or 21.0% is settled (buildings or roads) and 0.01km2 or 0.3% is unproductive land.Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 3.4% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.3%. Power and water infrastructure as well as other special developed areas made up 2.3% of the area while parks, green belts and sports fields made up 12.7%. Out of the forested land, all of the forested land area is covered with heavy forests. Of the agricultural land, 40.7% is used for growing crops and 19.2% is pastures, while 2.1% is used for orchards or vine crops.Coat of armsThe blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Argent three Bends sinister wavy Azure and overall a Bend Gules.DemographicsWallenried had a population of 447., 8.3% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (2000–2010) the population has changed at a rate of 30.6%. Migration accounted for 26.1%, while births and deaths accounted for 6.3%.Most of the population speaks French (168 or 53.5%) as their first language, German is the second most common (137 or 43.6%) and Italian is the third (2 or 0.6%). There is 1 person who speaks Romansh.