Düdingen
municipality in the canton of Fribourg, Switzerland
Düdingen (German: [ˈdyːdɪŋən]; French: Guin [ɡɛ̃]; Arpitan: Duens, locally Dyin [ɟɛ̃] ) 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.
History
Düdingen is first mentioned in 1180 as Doens. In 1258 it was mentioned as Tiudingen and in 1414 as Dyung.
Geography
Düdingen has an area of 30.76 km2 (11.88 sq mi). Of this area, 20.78 km2 (8.02 mi2) or 67.5% is used for agricultural purposes, while 4.08 km2 (1.58 mi2) or 13.3% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 3.83 km2 (1.48 mi2) or 12.4% is settled (buildings or roads), 1.95 km2 (0.75 mi2) or 6.3% is either rivers or lakes and 0.18 km2 (0.069 mi2) or 0.6% is unproductive land.
Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 5.5% and transportation infrastructure made up 4.4%. Out of the forested land, 12.1% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.2% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 48.9% is used for growing crops and 16.3% is pastures, while 2.3% is used for orchards or vine crops.
“Düdingen” enters the record as municipality in the canton of Fribourg, Switzerland. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Düdingen, municipality and canton can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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