Kleinbösingen is a municipality in the district of See in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland. Its former French name was Petit-Basens. It is one of the municipalities with a large majority of German speakers in the mostly French speaking Canton of Fribourg. History Kleinbösingen is first mentioned in 1264 as Balsingen lo pitet. In 1264-65 it was mentioned as Besingen, in 1584 as Zänerbösingen and until the 18th century as Welschbösingen. Geography Kleinbösingen has an area of . Of this area, or 64.8% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 20.9% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 9.3% is settled (buildings or roads), or 2.7% is either rivers or lakes and or 2.3% is unproductive land. Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 4.7% and transportation infrastructure made up 4.0%. Out of the forested land, 15.6% of the total land area is heavily forested and 5.3% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 52.8% is used for growing crops and 10.3% is pastures, while 1.7% is used for orchards or vine crops. Of the water in the municipality, 1.7% is in lakes and 1.0% is in rivers and streams. The municipality is located in the See district, on the left bank of the Saane/Sarine river and on the end of the Schiffenensee between Murten and Fribourg. Coat of arms The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Per fess Gules an Bull passant proper and Argent a Ploughshare Azure in band. Demographics Kleinbösingen has a population () of . , 7.1% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (2000–2010) the population has changed at a rate of 15%. Migration accounted for 14.4%, while births and deaths accounted for 3%. Most of the population () speaks German (480 or 94.9%) as their first language, French is the second most common (15 or 3.0%) and Italian is the third (6 or 1.2%). , the population was 49.8% male and 50.2% female. The population was made up of 264 Swiss men (46.2% of the population) and 21 (3.7%) non-Swiss men. There were 271 Swiss women (47.4%) and 16 (2.8%) non-Swiss women. Of the population in the municipality, 139 or about 27.5% were born in Kleinbösingen and lived there in 2000. There were 135 or 26.7% who were born in the same canton, while 177