Galmiz

Galmiz (former French name: Charmey) 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. Galmiz is first mentioned in 1242 as Chalmitis. In 1340 it was mentioned as Charmey. Galmiz has an area, , of . Of this area, or 70.5% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 18.7% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 7.8% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.8% is either rivers or lakes and or 2.1% is unproductive land. Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 2.4% and transportation infrastructure made up 4.6%. Out of the forested land, all of the forested land area is covered with heavy forests. Of the agricultural land, 66.2% is used for growing crops and 3.8% is pastures. All the water in the municipality is flowing water. The municipality is located in the See/Lac district, on the edge of the Grosses Moos wetlands and about north-east of Murten. It consists of the linear village of Galmiz. The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Gules a Wheel Or. Galmiz has a population () of . , 13.7% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (2000–2010) the population has changed at a rate of 9.7%. Migration accounted for 3.6%, while births and deaths accounted for 3.2%. It is a majority German speaking municipality in the mostly French speaking Canton of Fribourg. Most of the population () speaks German (504 or 90.0%) as their first language, French is the second most common (30 or 5.4%) and Italian is the third (7 or 1.3%). the population was 52.8% male and 47.2% female. The population was made up of 263 Swiss men (43.1% of the population) and 59 (9.7%) non-Swiss men. There were 249 Swiss women (40.8%) and 39 (6.4%) non-Swiss women. Of the population in the municipality, 181 or about 32.3% were born in Galmiz and lived there in 2000. There were 121 or 21.6% who were born in the same canton, while 186 or 33.