Lake Murten
Lake Morat or more rarely Lake Murten is a lake located in the cantons of Fribourg and Vaud in the west of Switzerland. It is named after the small bilingual town of Murten/Morat on its southern shore.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Lake
- Description: lake in Switzerland
- Also known as: “Lac de Morat”, “Lake Morat”, and “Murtensee”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Guevaux Castle and Murten/Morat railway station.
Guevaux Castle
Castle
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Guévaux Castle is a castle in the municipality of Vully-les-Lacs of the Canton of Vaud in Switzerland. It is a Swiss heritage site of national significance.
Murten/Morat railway station
Railway station
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Murten/Morat railway station is a railway station in the municipality of Murten, in the Swiss canton of Fribourg. It is located at the southern junction of the standard gauge Fribourg–Ins and Palézieux–Lyss lines of Swiss Federal Railways. Murten/Morat railway station is situated 2½ km east of Lake Murten.
Mont-Vully
Town hall
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Mont-Vully is a municipality in the district of See in the Canton of Fribourg in Switzerland. It was formed on 1 January 2016 when the former municipalities of Bas-Vully and Haut-Vully merged. Mont-Vully is situated 3½ km northeast of Lake Murten.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Meyriez and Greng.
Meyriez
Village
Meyriez is a municipality in the district of See or du Lac 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.
Greng
Village
Greng is a municipality in the district of See/Lac in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland.
Mur
Village
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Mur is a former municipality in the district of Broye-Vully in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. The municipalities of Bellerive, Chabrey, Constantine, Montmagny, Mur, Vallamand and Villars-le-Grand merged on 1 July 2011 into the new municipality of Vully-les-Lacs.
Lake Murten
- Categories: area not part of a municipality of Switzerland and body of water
- Location: Canton of Fribourg, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
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Satellite Map
Discover Lake Murten from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Arpitan to Wu Chinese—“Lake Murten” goes by many names.
- Arpitan: “Lèc de Morât”
- Bulgarian: “Муртенсе”
- Catalan: “Llac Murten”
- Cebuano: “Murtensee”
- Chinese: “穆尔滕湖”
- Chuvash: “Муртен кӳлли”
- Croatian: “Murtensko jezero”
- Czech: “Lac de Morat”
- Czech: “Murtensee”
- Czech: “Murtenské jezero”
- Dutch: “Meer van Murten”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مورتين”
- Esperanto: “Lago de Morato”
- Finnish: “Murtensee”
- French: “lac de Morat”
- French: “Lac de Morat”
- French: “Murtensee”
- Galician: “Lago de Morat”
- German: “Lac de Morat”
- German: “Murtensee”
- German: “Murtenersee” (historical)
- German: “Üchtsee” (historical)
- Hebrew: “אגם מוראט”
- Hungarian: “Murteni-tó”
- Indonesian: “Danau Morat”
- Italian: “lago di Morat”
- Italian: “Lago di Morat”
- Italian: “Lago di Murten”
- Japanese: “ムルテン湖”
- Japanese: “モラ湖”
- Korean: “무르텐호”
- Latin: “Lacus Muratensis”
- Latvian: “Murtenes ezers”
- Lithuanian: “Murteno ežeras”
- Macedonian: “Муртенско Езеро”
- Mingrelian: “მურტენიშ ტობა”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Lac de Morat”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Moratsjøen”
- Polish: “Murtensee”
- Portuguese: “Lago Murten”
- Romanian: “Lac de Morat”
- Romanian: “Lacul Murten”
- Romanian: “Murtenersee”
- Romansh: “Lai da Murten”
- Russian: “Муртензе”
- Russian: “Муртенское озеро”
- Serbian: “Језеро Муртен”
- Serbian: “Муртенско језеро”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Murtensko jezero”
- Sicilian: “Lacu di Murten”
- Slovenian: “Murtensee”
- Slovenian: “Murtensko jezero”
- Spanish: “Lago de Murten/Morat”
- Swedish: “Murtensee”
- Swedish: “Murtensjön”
- Swiss German: “Murtesee”
- Tosk Albanian: “Murtensee”
- Turkish: “Murten Gölü”
- Ukrainian: “Муртензее”
- Venetian: “lago de Morat”
- Welsh: “Llyn Murten”
- Wu Chinese: “穆尔滕湖”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Môtier and Guévaux.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include freiburger spital HFR, Standort Meyriez-Murten and Faoug railway station.
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