Tafers

Tafers (French: Tavel) is a municipality in the district of Sense in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland. It is one of the municipalities with a large majority of German speakers in the mostly French speaking Canton of Fribourg.

Geography

Tafers has an area of 8.4 km² (3.24 sq mi). Of this area, 5.33 km² (2.06 sq mi) or 63.5% is used for agricultural purposes, while 1.78 km² (0.69 sq mi) or 21.2% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 1.25 km² (0.48 sq mi) or 14.9% is settled (buildings or roads) and 0.01 km² (2.5 acres) or 0.1% is unproductive land.

Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 1.8% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 9.2% and transportation infrastructure made up 3.1%. Out of the forested land, all of the forested land area is covered with heavy forests. Of the agricultural land, 40.0% is used for growing crops and 22.6% is pastures.

Coat of arms

The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Gules, a Guard stantant afrontee clad Azure and Sable ensigned with a Cross on sinister, holding in dexter a Halberd Argent.