Kleinbösingen
municipality in Switzerland
Kleinbösingen is a municipality in the district of See in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland. Its former French name was Petit-Basens. It is one of the municipalities with a large majority of German speakers in the mostly French speaking Canton of Fribourg.
History
Kleinbösingen is first mentioned in 1264 as Balsingen lo pitet. In 1264-65 it was mentioned as Besingen, in 1584 as Zänerbösingen and until the 18th century as Welschbösingen.
Geography
Kleinbösingen has an area of 3.02 km2 (1.17 sq mi). Of this area, 1.95 km2 (0.75 mi2) or 64.8% is used for agricultural purposes, while 0.63 km2 (0.24 mi2) or 20.9% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 0.28 km2 (0.11 mi2) or 9.3% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.08 km2 (20 acres) or 2.7% is either rivers or lakes and 0.07 km2 (17 acres) or 2.3% is unproductive land.
Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 4.7% and transportation infrastructure made up 4.0%. Out of the forested land, 15.6% of the total land area is heavily forested and 5.3% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees.
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