Courlevon

Courlevon is a former municipality in the district of See or du Lac in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland. On 1 January 2016, the former municipalities of Courlevon, Jeuss, Lurtigen, and Salvenach merged into Murten/Morat. Courlevon is first mentioned in 1214 as Curlivin. Courlevon had an area, , of . Of this area, or 57.4% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 37.7% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 5.2% is settled (buildings or roads). Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 4.3% and transportation infrastructure made up 0.6%. Out of the forested land, 35.6% of the total land area is heavily forested and 2.1% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 42.9% is used for growing crops and 13.8% is pastures. The former municipality is located in the See/Lac district. On 15 February 1974, the former municipality of Coussiberlé merged into the municipality of Courlevon. The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Gules, a Horse passant Argent. Courlevon had a population () of 305. , 9.1% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (2000–2010) the population has changed at a rate of 17.6%. Migration accounted for 21.2%, while births and deaths accounted for −1.2%. It is a German-speaking former municipality in the mostly French speaking Canton of Fribourg. Most of the population () speaks German (240 or 92.7%) as their first language, French is the second most common (12 or 4.6%) and Portuguese is the third (3 or 1.2%). There is 1 person who speaks Italian. the population was 47.8% male and 52.2% female. The population was made up of 126 Swiss men (43.6% of the population) and 12 (4.2%) non-Swiss men. There were 134 Swiss women (46.4%) and 17 (5.9%) non-Swiss women. Of the population in the municipality, 110 or about 42.5% were born in Courlevon and lived there in 2000. There were 60 or 23.2% who were born in the same canton, while 63 or 24.3% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 19 or 7.3% were born outside of Switzerland.