Murten
Murten (French: Morat) is a city in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland. It is a historic city on the south side of Lake Morat. The name of the city first appears in 515 as Muratum. The name is probably related to Celtic Moridunum. This is made from Mori (lake), and dunum (castle, fortification). The city used to be part of the duchy of Burgundy. It got city rights in 1337.
Today, about 6,000 people live there. Almost all of the old parts of the city still exist. In 2000, about 77% of the people spoke German, 13% spoke French, and about 2% spoke Italian.[1] About 19% of the people living there are foreigners.[1]
On 1 January 1975 the former municipality of Burg bei Murten merged into the municipality of Murten.[2] It was created on 1 January 1991 by the former municipality of Altavilla and on 1 January 2013 by the former municipality of Büchslen. On 1 January 2016 the former municipalities of Courlevon, Jeuss, Lurtigen and Salvenach merged into Murten.[3]
Images
Main city square
The ramparts
Murten Media
Berntor/Porte de Berne in Morat
The battle of Murten, part of a woodcut from the cronicle of Stumpf 1548
Aerial photograph from 300 m by Walter Mittelholzer (1919)
Murten: Schiffländte
View across Murten/Morat haven toward the old city on a hill above the lake
Monolith in Lake Morat for the Expo.02
French speaking Reformed church in Morat
Farmhouse, Cantonal Highway, Erli 2, Murten
Stadtmauer in Murten
View over the compact old city
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Website of Murten, data" (in German). Archived from the original on 2013-12-03. Retrieved 2008-10-11.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link) - ↑ Nomenklaturen – Amtliches Gemeindeverzeichnis der Schweiz (in German) accessed 9 February 2013
- ↑ Nomenklaturen – Amtliches Gemeindeverzeichnis der Schweiz (in German) accessed 3 February 2016
Other websites
- Official website (in German, English, and French)
- The panorama of the battle of Morat
- Photo Gallery from Morat
