Gletterens () is a municipality in the district of Broye, in the canton of Fribourg, Switzerland.
It is home to the Les Grèves prehistoric pile-dwelling (or stilt house) settlements that are part of the Prehistoric Pile dwellings around the Alps UNESCO World Heritage Site.
History
Gletterens is first mentioned in 1239 as Lieterins.
Geography
Gletterens has an area, , of . Of this area, or 51.7% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 16.1% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 20.2% is settled (buildings or roads) and or 12.3% is unproductive land.
Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 12.0% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.7%. while parks, green belts and sports fields made up 5.1%. Out of the forested land, all of the forested land area is covered with heavy forests. Of the agricultural land, 41.8% is used for growing crops and 9.2% is pastures.
The municipality is located Broyebez., abseits der grossen Verkehrsachsen am Neuenburgersee gelegen.. It consists of the village of Gletterens and the hamlets of Broyebez., abseits der grossen Verkehrsachsen am Neuenburgersee gelegen..
Coat of arms
The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Barry of six Or and Gules and on a Chief Argent fimbriated wavy Azure a Rose Gules barbed and seeded proper in sinister.
Demographics
Gletterens has a population () of . , 7.7% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (2000–2010) the population has changed at a rate of 50.7%. Migration accounted for 52.7%, while births and deaths accounted for 5.4%.
Most of the population () speaks French (385 or 71.8%) as their first language, German is the second most common (139 or 25.9%) and Italian is the third (5 or 0.9%).
, the population was 48.3% male and 51.7% female. The population was made up of 332 Swiss men (44.1% of the population) and 31 (4.1%) non-Swiss men. There were 347 Swiss women (46.1%) and 42 (5.6%) non-Swiss women. Of the population in the municipality, 158 or about 29.5% were born in Gletterens and lived there in 2000. There were 94 or 17.5% who were born in the same canton, while 215 or 40.1% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 58 or 10.8% were born outside of Switzerland.
The age distribution, , in Gletterens is; 63 children or 11.8% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 61 teenagers or 11.4% are between 10 and 19. Of the adult population, 45 people or 8.4% of the population are between 20 and 29 years old. 78 people or 14.6% are between 30 and 39, 93 people or 17.4% are between 40 and 49, and 70 people or 13.1% are between 50 and 59. The senior population distribution is 67 people or 12.5% of the population are between 60 and 69 years old, 32 people or 6.0% are between 70 and 79, there are 22 people or 4.1% who are between 80 and 89, and there are 5 people or 0.9% who are 90 and older.
, there were 183 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 293 married individuals, 34 widows or widowers and 26 individuals who are divorced.
, there were 171 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.6 persons per household. There were 35 households that consist of only one person and 10 households with five or more people. , a total of 159 apartments (53.0% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 124 apartments (41.3%) were seasonally occupied and 17 apartments (5.7%) were empty. , the construction rate of new housing units was 13.3 new units per 1000 residents. The vacancy rate for the municipality, , was 0.27%.
The historical population is given in the following chart:
World Heritage Site
It is home to the Les Grèves prehistoric pile-dwelling (or stilt house) settlements that are part of the Prehistoric Pile dwellings around the Alps UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The Les Grèves site is located about from the present shoreline. Some of the timbers have been dendrochronologically dated to the 33rd century and the first half of the 32nd century BC. The site was well known locally before it was officially discovered by H. Schwab in the 1960s. The upper layers are from a Horgen culture settlement and the lower layers might be from either a Horgan or a Cortaillod culture settlement.
Politics
In the 2011 federal election the most popular party was the SP which received 27.9% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SVP (27.4%), the CVP (14.4%) and the FDP (10.8%).