Rechthalten 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, 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.

The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Sable on a Pale Argent three Fleurs-de-lys Azure.

[9] Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks German (978 or 95.4%) as their first language, French is the second most common (39 or 3.8%) and Portuguese is the third (3 or 0.3%).

[9] The historical population is given in the following chart:[3][13] In the 2011 federal election the most popular party was the SVP which received 30.5% of the vote.

[9] There were 582 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 40.2% of the workforce.

In the tertiary sector; 10 or 17.2% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 4 or 6.9% were in the movement and storage of goods, 13 or 22.4% were in a hotel or restaurant, 1 was in the information industry, 5 or 8.6% were the insurance or financial industry, 3 or 5.2% were technical professionals or scientists, 6 or 10.3% were in education and 2 or 3.4% were in health care.

[9] From the 2000 census[update], 823 or 80.3% were Roman Catholic, while 137 or 13.4% 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.

[18] During the 2010–11 school year, there were a total of 111 students attending 6 classes in Rechthalten.