Sense District
Sense District is one of the seven administrative districts of the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland, and the only completely German-speaking one. It is named after the Sense river, which forms the majority of its eastern border with the canton of Bern.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: district of the canton of Fribourg with 44,600 residents
- Description: district in the canton of Fribourg, Switzerland
- Also known as: “Bezirk Sense”
Places of Interest
Highlights include St. Niklaus parish church with rectory and chaplaincy and St. Urs Chapel.
Château Maggenberg
Castle
Photo: Matutinho, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Château Maggenberg is a castle, which is situated 3½ km west of Sense District.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tafers and Alterswil.
Tafers
Village
Photo: Badener, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Tafers 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. Tafers is situated 3½ km northwest of Sense District.
Alterswil
Village
Photo: LuFiLa, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Alterswil is a former 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.
St. Antoni
Village
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St. Antoni is a former 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.
Sense District
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Sense District” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “سينس (سويسرا)”
- Arabic: “سينس”
- Arpitan: “District de la Singena”
- Asturian: “Distritu de Sense”
- Basque: “Sense barrutia”
- Catalan: “Districte de la Singine”
- Cebuano: “Sense District”
- Chinese: “Sense Koān”
- Chinese: “森瑟区”
- Chinese: “森瑟县”
- Czech: “Okres Sense”
- Czech: “Okres Singine”
- Dutch: “Sense”
- Esperanto: “disktrikto Sinĝino”
- Esperanto: “Sinĝino”
- French: “district de la Singine”
- French: “District de la Singine”
- French: “Singine”
- German: “Sensebezirk”
- Italian: “distretto della Sense”
- Italian: “Distretto della Sense”
- Japanese: “ゼンゼ地区”
- Latin: “Sense”
- Latin: “Sensuna”
- Lombard: “Sense”
- Luxembourgish: “Bezierk Sense”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Sense Koān”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sense”
- Polish: “Okręg Sense”
- Romansh: “District da la Sense”
- Romansh: “Sense”
- Russian: “Сенс”
- Spanish: “distrito de Sense”
- Spanish: “Distrito de Sense”
- Swedish: “Sense District”
- Swedish: “Sense”
- Swiss German: “Seisebezirk”
- Tosk Albanian: “Sensebezirk”
- Ukrainian: “Зензе”
- Venetian: “Distreto de ła Sense”
- Vietnamese: “Sense”
- Waray (Philippines): “Sense”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include freiburger spital HFR, Standort Tafers and Fofenhubel.
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