page_title: Rechthalten
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Rechthalten / Geography
caption_attribution_description: English: The village of Rechthalten FR, Switzerland Alemannisch: S Dorf Rächthaute FR, Schwiiz
context_page_description: Rechthalten is a municipality in the district of Sense, in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland. It was known in French as Dirlaret, but this name is no longer used. It is one of the municipalities with a large majority of German speakers in the mostly French speaking Canton of Fribourg.
context_section_description: Rechthalten has an area of 7.31 km² (2.82 sq mi).  Of this area, 5.37 km² (2.07 sq mi) or 73.7% is used for agricultural purposes, while 1.33 km² (0.51 sq mi) or 18.2% is forested.   Of the rest of the land, 0.52 km² (0.20 sq mi) or 7.1% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.04 km² (9.9 acres) or 0.5% is either rivers or lakes and 0.04 km² (9.9 acres) or 0.5% is unproductive land.
  Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 4.3% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.2%.  Out of the forested land, 17.1% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.1% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees.  Of the agricultural land, 28.7% is used for growing crops and  44.0% is pastures.  All the water in the municipality is flowing water.
  The municipality is located in the Sense district, about 8 km (5.0 mi) south-east of Fribourg.  It consists of the haufendorf village (an irregular, unplanned and quite closely packed village, built around a central square) of Rechthalten along with scattered hamlets and farm houses.
caption: Rechthalten village from the south
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