Kerzers is a municipality in the district of See in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland. Its French name is Chiètres (; ). History Kerzers is first mentioned in 926 as Cartris. In 1153 it was mentioned as Kercers. Geography Kerzers has an area of . Of this area, or 68.5% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 14.8% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 15.9% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.6% is either rivers or lakes and or 0.1% is unproductive land. Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 2.0% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 6.9% and transportation infrastructure made up 4.8%. while parks, green belts and sports fields made up 1.2%. Out of the forested land, 13.7% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.1% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 62.1% is used for growing crops and 5.0% is pastures, while 1.5% 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, on the eastern edge of the Grosses Moos wetlands. Coat of arms The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Azure two Candles lit proper. Since Kerze means candle in German, the coat of arms is an example of canting. Demographics Kerzers has a population () of . , 18.9% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (2000–2010) the population has changed at a rate of 20.3%. Migration accounted for 10.7%, while births and deaths accounted for 5.1%. Most of the population () speaks German (3,387 or 87.0%) as their first language, Portuguese is the second most common (99 or 2.5%) and Albanian is the third (99 or 2.5%). There are 95 people who speak French, 40 people who speak Italian and 3 people who speak Romansh. , the population was 49.3% male and 50.7% female. The population was made up of 1,752 Swiss men (38.5% of the population) and 491 (10.8%) non-Swiss men. There were 1,877 Swiss women (41.3%) and 426 (9.4%) non-Swiss women. Of the population in the municipality, 1,219 or about 31.3% were born in Kerzers and lived there in 2000. There were 339 or 8.7% who were born in the same canton, while 1,590 or 40.9% were born somewhere else in