Heitenried
Sign in to saveHeitenried (formerly in ; ) 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.
Key facts
- Swiss town.subject_name
- Heitenried
- Swiss town.municipality_type
- municipality
- Swiss town.image_photo
- Heitenried Saint-Michel 2011-07-24 16 31 20 PICT3503.JPG
- Swiss town.image_caption
- Parish church of St. Michel in Heitenried village
- Swiss town.imagepath_coa
- CHE Heitenried COA.svg
- Swiss town.imagepath_flag
- CHE Heitenried Flag.svg
- Swiss town.canton
- Fribourg
- Swiss town.iso code region
- CH-FR
- Swiss town.district
- Sense
- Swiss town.postal_code
- 1714
- Swiss town.municipality_code
- 2296
- Swiss town.area
- 9.04
- Swiss town.elevation
- 762
- Swiss town.website
- www.heitenried.ch
- Swiss town.mayor_title
- Gemeindeammann
- Swiss town.neighboring_municipalities
- Albligen (BE), Sankt Antoni, Ueberstorf, Wahlern (BE)
- Swiss town.twintowns
- Jaszago (Hungary)
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Heitenried (formerly in ; ) 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.
==History== Heitenried is first mentioned in French in 1228 as Essers. The German name was first mentioned in 1257 as Ried.