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Gempenach
Summary
Gempenach (former French name: Champagny; Champagni tsɑ̃paˈɲi) is a former municipality in the district of See in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland. On 1 January 2022 the former municipalities of Galmiz, Gempenach and Clavaleyres (Canton of Bern) merged into the municipality of Murten.
Gempenach is first mentioned under its French name in 1340 as Champagnie. In 1408 it was mentioned as Gempenach followed in 1409 as Gempernach.
Gempenach has an area, , of . Of this area, or 74.0% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 18.3% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 5.9% is settled (buildings or roads).
Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 2.4% and transportation infrastructure made up 3.0%. Out of the forested land, 17.2% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.2% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 55.6% is used for growing crops and 12.4% is pastures, while 5.9% is used for orchards or vine crops.
The municipality is located in the See/Lac district, about north-east of Murten along the border with the Canton of Bern. It consists of the linear village of Gempenach.
The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Gules a House Argent to its sinister a pine tree Vert trunked proper and issuant from sinister a Bush of the Third all issuant from a Base of the last.
Gempenach has a population () of . , 9.8% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (2000–2010) the population has changed at a rate of 5.8%. Migration accounted for 11.6%, while births and deaths accounted for -1.1%.
Most of the population () speaks German (274 or 97.5%) as their first language, Portuguese is the second most common (4 or 1.4%) and French is the third (2 or 0.7%).
the population was 50.5% male and 49.5% female. The population was made up of 129 Swiss men (44.3% of the population) and 18 (6.2%) non-Swiss men. There were 135 Swiss women (46.4%) and 9 (3.1%) non-Swiss women. Of the population in the municipality, 87 or about 31.
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