Le Glèbe

Le Glèbe (lə ɡlɛb; Le Gllèbe) is a former municipality in the district of Sarine in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland. It was created on 1 January 2003 by the union of Estavayer-le-Gibloux, Rueyres-Saint-Laurent, Villarlod, and Villarsel-le-Gibloux. On 1 January 2016 it merged with Corpataux-Magnedens, Farvagny, Rossens and Vuisternens-en-Ogoz to form the new municipality of Gibloux. Le Glèbe had an area, , of . Of this area, or 72.3% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 18.9% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 8.2% is settled (buildings or roads). Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 4.3% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.7%. Out of the forested land, 17.0% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.9% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 40.5% is used for growing crops and 28.0% is pastures and 3.2% is used for alpine pastures. Le Glèbe had a population () of 1,246. , 7.6% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (2000–2010) the population has changed at a rate of 23.5%. Migration accounted for 18.3%, while births and deaths accounted for 6.4%. Most of the population () speaks French (248 or 94.7%) as their first language, German is the second most common (7 or 2.7%) and Portuguese is the third (3 or 1.1%). There are 2 people who speak Italian. the population was 51.4% male and 48.6% female. The population was made up of 521 Swiss men (46.9% of the population) and 50 (4.5%) non-Swiss men. There were 507 Swiss women (45.6%) and 33 (3.0%) non-Swiss women. Of the population in the municipality, 112 or about 42.7% were born in Le Glèbe and lived there in 2000. There were 108 or 41.2% who were born in the same canton, while 28 or 10.7% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 14 or 5.3% were born outside of Switzerland. children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 30.4% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 58.7% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 11%.