Morens

Morens (mɔʁɑ̃s, moˈʁɛ̃) is a former municipality in the district of Broye, in the canton of Fribourg, Switzerland. On 1 January 2017 the former municipalities of Morens, Bussy, Estavayer-le-Lac, Murist, Rueyres-les-Prés, Vernay and Vuissens merged into the new municipality of Estavayer. Morens is first mentioned in 1216 as Morens. Morens had an area, , of . Of this area, or 66.5% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 16.2% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 16.2% is settled (buildings or roads), or 1.2% is either rivers or lakes. Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 4.6% and transportation infrastructure made up 11.2%. Out of the forested land, 15.0% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.2% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 58.1% is used for growing crops and 8.1% is pastures. All the water in the municipality is flowing water. The former municipality is located in the Broye district, in the Estavayer-le-Lac exclave. The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Gules, on a Pale Argent three Roses of the field barbed and seeded proper. Morens had a population () of 154. , 4.5% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (2000–2010) the population has changed at a rate of 22.4%. Migration accounted for 13.6%, while births and deaths accounted for 13.6%. Most of the population () speaks French (110 or 89.4%) as their first language, German is the second most common (10 or 8.1%) and Portuguese is the third (2 or 1.6%). the population was 49.7% male and 50.3% female. The population was made up of 74 Swiss men (47.1% of the population) and 4 (2.5%) non-Swiss men. There were 74 Swiss women (47.1%) and 5 (3.2%) non-Swiss women. Of the population in the municipality, 60 or about 48.8% were born in Morens and lived there in 2000. There were 35 or 28.5% who were born in the same canton, while 20 or 16.3% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 6 or 4.9% were born outside of Switzerland.