Plasselb (Arpitan: Pllanassiva, locally Pyanachiva [pjanaˈʃiva] ⓘ) 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.
[5] The municipality is located in the Sense district, at the foot of the Schweinsberg at the entrance to the Plasselbschlund.
[6] The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Sable a Bar Argent and overall a Deer salient Or.
[10] Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks German (913 or 93.2%) as their first language, French is the second most common (22 or 2.2%) and Albanian is the third (21 or 2.1%).
[10] The historical population is given in the following chart:[3][14] In the 2011 federal election the most popular party was the SVP which received 38.8% of the vote.
[10] There were 525 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 39.8% of the workforce.
The number of jobs in the primary sector was 31, of which 18 were in agriculture and 13 were in forestry or lumber production.
In the tertiary sector; 14 or 29.2% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 4 or 8.3% were in the movement and storage of goods, 10 or 20.8% were in a hotel or restaurant, 2 or 4.2% were in the information industry, 1 was the insurance or financial industry, 1 was a technical professional or scientist, 5 or 10.4% were in education and 1 was in health care.
[10] From the 2000 census[update], 797 or 81.3% were Roman Catholic, while 72 or 7.3% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church.
This is followed by three years of obligatory lower Secondary school where the students are separated according to ability and aptitude.
The upper Secondary school is divided into gymnasium (university preparatory) and vocational programs.
After they finish the upper Secondary program, students may choose to attend a Tertiary school or continue their apprenticeship.
[19] During the 2010-11 school year, there were a total of 86 students attending 4 classes in Plasselb.