page_title: Plasselb
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Plasselb / Geography
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Flugaufnahme des Dorfes Plasselb
context_page_description: Plasselb 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.
context_section_description: Plasselb has an area of 18.16 km² (7.01 sq mi).  Of this area, 6.73 km² (2.60 sq mi) or 37.1% is used for agricultural purposes, while 10.06 km² (3.88 sq mi) or 55.5% is forested.   Of the rest of the land, 0.73 km² (0.28 sq mi) or 4.0% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.2 km² (0.077 sq mi) or 1.1% is either rivers or lakes and 0.39 km² (0.15 sq mi) or 2.2% is unproductive land.
  Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 2.0% and transportation infrastructure made up 1.6%.  Out of the forested land, 51.9% of the total land area is heavily forested and 3.6% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees.  Of the agricultural land, 9.6% is pastures and 27.2% is used for alpine pastures.  All the water in the municipality is flowing water.
  The municipality is located in the Sense district, at the foot of the Schweinsberg at the entrance to the Plasselbschlund.  It consists of the village of Plasselb and, since 1971, Neuhaus.
caption: Aerial view of Plasselb
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