Oberschrot
Sign in to saveOberschrot was 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. On January 1, 2017, the former municipalities of Oberschrot and Zumholz merged into the municipality of Plaffeien.
Key facts
- Swiss town.subject_name
- Oberschrot
- Swiss town.municipality_type
- former
- Swiss town.image_photo
- Oberschrot 3411.jpg
- Swiss town.image_caption
- Oberschrot village
- Swiss town.imagepath_coa
- CHE Oberschrot COA.svg
- Swiss town.imagepath_flag
- CHE Oberschrot Flag.svg
- Swiss town.canton
- Fribourg
- Swiss town.iso code region
- CH-FR
- Swiss town.district
- Sense
- Swiss town.postal_code
- 1716
- Swiss town.municipality_code
- 2298
- Swiss town.area
- 5.28
- Swiss town.elevation
- 850
- Swiss town.population
- 1185
- Swiss town.populationof
- Dec 2015
- Swiss town.popofyear
- 2015
- Swiss town.website
- https://www.plaffeien.ch
- Swiss town.mayor_title
- Gemeindeammann
via Wikipedia infobox
Article
11 sectionsContents
- History
- Geography
- Coat of arms
- Demographics
- Sights
- Politics
- Economy
- Religion
- Education
- References
- External links
Oberschrot was 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. On January 1, 2017, the former municipalities of Oberschrot and Zumholz merged into the municipality of Plaffeien.
==History== Oberschrot was created as an independent municipality in 1831. Before that, the name meant an area in the parish of Rechthalten that consisted of four Schrote or village sections.