Ried bei Kerzers (; ) is a municipality in the district of See, within 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. On 1 January 2006, Ried bei Kerzers incorporated the neighbouring municipality of Agriswil. History Ried bei Kerzers is first mentioned in 1340 as Riedes. Until 1901 it was known as Oberried. Geography Ried bei Kerzers has an area of . Of this area, or 80.2% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 7.1% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 11.9% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.1% is either rivers or lakes and or 0.4% is unproductive land. Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 1.1% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 4.5% and transportation infrastructure made up 6.2%. Out of the forested land, all of the forested land area is covered with heavy forests. Of the agricultural land, 67.1% is used for growing crops and 9.4% is pastures, while 3.8% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is flowing water. The municipality is located in the See/Lac district, near the Grosses Moos wetlands. It consists of the linear village of Ried bei Kerzers, the hamlet of Gurzelen, part of the Grosses Moos, and since 2006 the former municipality of Agriswil. Coat of arms The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Argent a House of the same roofed Gules behind a Beech Vert all issuant from a Base of the last. Demographics Ried bei Kerzers has a population () of . , 14.5% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (2000–2010) the population has changed at a rate of 14.6%. Migration accounted for 11.3%, while births and deaths accounted for 3.4%. Most of the population () speaks German (633 or 91.1%) as their first language, Portuguese is the second most common (25 or 3.6%) and French is the third (22 or 3.2%). There are 4 people who speak Italian. , the population was made up of 817 Swiss citizens and 139 non-citizen residents (14.54% of the population). Of the population in the municipality, 266 or about 38.3% were born in Ried bei Kerzers and lived there in 2000. There were 91 or 13.1% who were born in the