Giffers
Sign in to saveGiffers (French: Chevrilles; ) is a municipality in the district of Sense in the canton of Fribourg, Switzerland. It is one of the municipalities with a large majority of German speakers in the mostly French speaking Canton of Fribourg.
Key facts
- Swiss town.subject_name
- Giffers
- Swiss town.municipality_type
- municipality
- Swiss town.image_photo
- Giffers.JPG
- Swiss town.image_caption
- Giffers village
- Swiss town.imagepath_coa
- CHE Giffers COA Var.svg
- Swiss town.imagepath_flag
- CHE Giffers Flag.svg
- Swiss town.canton
- Fribourg
- Swiss town.iso code region
- CH-FR
- Swiss town.district
- Sense
- Swiss town.postal_code
- 1735
- Swiss town.municipality_code
- 2294
- Swiss town.area
- 5.15
- Swiss town.elevation
- 767
- Swiss town.website
- www.giffers.ch
- Swiss town.mayor_title
- Gemeindeammann
- Swiss town.neighboring_municipalities
- Plaffeien, Plasselb, Rechthalten, Sankt Silvester, Tentlingen
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Giffers (French: Chevrilles; ) is a municipality in the district of Sense in the canton of Fribourg, Switzerland. It is one of the municipalities with a large majority of German speakers in the mostly French speaking Canton of Fribourg.
==History== Giffers is first mentioned in 1160 as Chivriles. In 1301 it was mentioned as Guifrils and in 1577 it was first called Giffers.