Brünisried is a

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in the district of

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in the canton of

Fribourg or is the capital of the Cantons of Switzerland, Swiss canton of Canton of Fribourg, Fribourg and district of Sarine (district), La Sarine. Located on both sides of the river Saane/Sarine, on the Swiss Plateau, it is a major economic, adminis ...

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. It is one of the municipalities with a large majority of German speakers in the mostly French speaking Canton of Fribourg.

History

Brünisried is first mentioned in 1294 as ''Brunisriet''.

Geography

Brünisried has an area of . Of this area, or 72.3% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 19.1% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 8.3% is settled (buildings or roads).Swiss Federal Statistical Office-Land Use Statistics
2009 data accessed 25 March 2010 Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 6.2% and transportation infrastructure made up 0.9%. Out of the forested land, all of the forested land area is covered with heavy forests. Of the agricultural land, 14.2% is used for growing crops and 56.3% is pastures, while 1.8% is used for orchards or vine crops. The municipality is located in the Sense district, about south-east of

. It consists of the

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of Brünisried and the

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of Berg, Holzgassa and Menzisberg.

Coat of arms

The

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of the municipal

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is ''Gules a Fencing Board Or charged with a Sword Sable''

Demographics

Brünisried has a population () of . , 1.3% of the population are resident foreign nationals.Swiss Federal Statistical Office - Superweb database - Gemeinde Statistics 1981-2008
accessed 19 June 2010 Over the last 10 years (2000–2010) the population has changed at a rate of 6.3%. Migration accounted for 3.2%, while births and deaths accounted for 2.2%.
accessed 16-December-2011 Most of the population () speaks

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(552 or 98.4%) as their first language, French is the second most common (6 or 1.1%) and

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is the third (3 or 0.5%). , the population was 51.8% male and 48.2% female. The population was made up of 318 Swiss men (51.0% of the population) and 5 (0.8%) non-Swiss men. There were 299 Swiss women (47.9%) and 2 (0.3%) non-Swiss women.Canton of Fribourg Statistics
accessed 3 November 2011 Of the population in the municipality, 222 or about 39.6% were born in Brünisried and lived there in 2000. There were 250 or 44.6% who were born in the same canton, while 65 or 11.6% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 13 or 2.3% were born outside of Switzerland. , children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 24.8% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 60.8% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 14.4%. , there were 236 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 274 married individuals, 32 widows or widowers and 19 individuals who are divorced.STAT-TAB Datenwürfel für Thema 40.3 - 2000
accessed 2 February 2011 , there were 210 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.6 persons per household. There were 60 households that consist of only one person and 22 households with five or more people. , a total of 192 apartments (87.3% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 22 apartments (10.0%) were seasonally occupied and 6 apartments (2.7%) were empty.Swiss Federal Statistical Office STAT-TAB - Datenwürfel für Thema 09.2 - Gebäude und Wohnungen
accessed 28 January 2011 , the construction rate of new housing units was 6.4 new units per 1000 residents. The vacancy rate for the municipality, , was 2.35%. The historical population is given in the following chart: Colors= id:lightgrey value:gray(0.9) id:darkgrey value:gray(0.8) ImageSize = width:1020 height:210 PlotArea = height:150 left:100 bottom:50 right:100 AlignBars = justify DateFormat = x.y Period = from:0 till:570 TimeAxis = orientation:vertical AlignBars = justify ScaleMajor = gridcolor:darkgrey increment:100 start:0 ScaleMinor = gridcolor:lightgrey increment:20 start:0 PlotData= color:yellowgreen width:40 mark:(line,white) align:center bar:1831 from:start till:509 text:"509" bar:1850 from:start till:277 text:"277" bar:1860 from:start till:286 text:"286" bar:1870 from:start till:326 text:"326" bar:1880 from:start till:311 text:"311" bar:1888 from:start till:372 text:"372" bar:1900 from:start till:404 text:"404" bar:1910 from:start till:431 text:"431" bar:1920 from:start till:430 text:"430" bar:1930 from:start till:438 text:"438" bar:1941 from:start till:434 text:"434" bar:1950 from:start till:424 text:"424" bar:1960 from:start till:397 text:"397" bar:1970 from:start till:404 text:"404" bar:1980 from:start till:430 text:"430" bar:1990 from:start till:457 text:"457" bar:2000 from:start till:561 text:"561"

Politics

In the 2011 federal election the most popular party was the SVP which received 33.2% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SPS (18.2%), the CVP (17.5%) and the FDP (11.1%).Canton of Fribourg National Council Election of 23 October 2011 Statistics
accessed 3 November 2011 The SVP received about the same percentage of the vote as they did in the 2007 Federal election (36.9% in 2007 vs 33.2% in 2011). The SPS moved from third in 2007 (with 13.9%) to second in 2011, the CVP moved from second in 2007 (with 15.9%) to third and the FDP moved from below fourth place in 2007 to fourth. A total of 237 votes were cast in this election, of which 6 or 2.5% were invalid.

Economy

, Brünisried had an unemployment rate of 1%. , there were 32 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 17 businesses involved in this sector. 16 people were employed in the

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and there were 6 businesses in this sector. 24 people were employed in the

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, with 8 businesses in this sector. There were 295 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 38.3% of the workforce. the total number of

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jobs was 52. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 19, all of which were in agriculture. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 15 of which 1 was in manufacturing and 14 (93.3%) were in construction. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 18. In the tertiary sector; 8 or 44.4% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 1 was in the movement and storage of goods, 1 was in a hotel or restaurant, 3 or 16.7% were in the information industry, 3 or 16.7% were in education. , there were 38 workers who commuted into the municipality and 239 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 6.3 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering.Swiss Federal Statistical Office - Statweb
accessed 24 June 2010 Of the working population, 8.8% used public transportation to get to work, and 75.6% used a private car.

Religion

From the , 431 or 76.8% were

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, while 92 or 16.4% belonged to the

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. Of the rest of the population, there was 1 individual who belongs to another Christian church. There were 7 (or about 1.25% of the population) who were

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ic. 20 (or about 3.57% of the population) belonged to no church, are

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, and 10 individuals (or about 1.78% of the population) did not answer the question.

Education

In Brünisried about 198 or (35.3%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 38 or (6.8%) have completed additional higher education (either

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or a ''

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''). Of the 38 who completed tertiary schooling, 78.9% were Swiss men, 21.1% were Swiss women. The Canton of Fribourg school system provides one year of non-obligatory

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, followed by six years of Primary school. This is followed by three years of obligatory lower Secondary school where the students are separated according to ability and aptitude. Following the lower Secondary students may attend a three or four year optional upper Secondary school. The upper Secondary school is divided into gymnasium (university preparatory) and vocational programs. After they finish the upper Secondary program, students may choose to attend a Tertiary school or continue their

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.Chart of the education system in Canton Fribourg
During the 2010-11 school year, there were a total of 44 students attending 3 classes in Brünisried. A total of 102 students from the municipality attended any school, either in the municipality or outside of it. There were no kindergarten classes in the municipality, but 13 students attended kindergarten in a neighboring municipality. The municipality had 3 primary classes and 44 students. During the same year, there were no lower secondary classes in the municipality, but 26 students attended lower secondary school in a neighboring municipality. There were no upper Secondary classes or vocational classes, but there were 7 upper Secondary students and 18 upper Secondary vocational students who attended classes in another municipality. The municipality had no non-university Tertiary classes. who attended classes in another municipality. , there were 2 students in Brünisried who came from another municipality, while 37 residents attended schools outside the municipality.

Notable people

* Pascal Jenny is a former Swiss football defender.

References

External links

Official Website of the Brünisried Community
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Brunisried Municipalities of the canton of Fribourg