St. Silvester
municipality in the canton of Fribourg, Switzerland
St. Silvester (French: Saint-Silvestre; Arpitan: Sent-Savéthro [ʃɛ̃ ʃaˈviθʁo] ) 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
St. Silvester is first mentioned in 1148 as sancto Silvestro und Baselgin.
Geography
St. Silvester has an area of 7.04 km2 (2.72 sq mi). Of this area, 3.74 km2 (1.44 mi2) or 52.9% is used for agricultural purposes, while 2.65 km2 (1.02 mi2) or 37.5% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 0.56 km2 (0.22 mi2) or 7.9% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.14 km2 (35 acres) or 2.0% is either rivers or lakes and 0.01 km2 (2.5 acres) or 0.1% is unproductive land.
Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 5.1% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.3%.
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