Morens
Morens is a former municipality in the district of Broye, in the canton of Fribourg, Switzerland. On 1 January 2017 the former municipalities of Morens, Bussy, Estavayer-le-Lac, Murist, Rueyres-les-Prés, Vernay and Vuissens merged into the new municipality of Estavayer.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 178 residents
- Description: former municipality of Switzerland
- Also known as: “Morens FR”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Payerne Air Base and Saint-Maurice parish church.
Payerne Air Base
Aerodrome
Photo: Peter Gronemann, CC BY 2.0.
Payerne Air Base is a military airfield of the Swiss Air Force north of Payerne in Switzerland, located approximately halfway between Lausanne and Bern.
Payerne railway station
Railway station
Photo: Roland Zumbuehl, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Payerne railway station is a railway station in the municipality of Payerne, in the Swiss canton of Vaud. It is located at the junction of the standard gauge Fribourg–Yverdon and Palézieux–Lyss lines of Swiss Federal Railways. Payerne railway station is situated 3½ km southeast of Morens.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bussy and Rueyres-les-Prés.
Bussy
Village
Photo: WWHenderson20, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Bussy is a former municipality in the district of Broye in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland. On 1 January 2017 the former municipalities of Bussy, Estavayer-le-Lac, Morens, Murist, Rueyres-les-Prés, Vernay and Vuissens merged into the new municipality of Estavayer.
Rueyres-les-Prés
Village
Photo: Christophe95, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Rueyres-les-Prés is a former municipality in the district of Broye in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland. On 1 January 2017 the former municipalities of Rueyres-les-Prés, Bussy, Estavayer-le-Lac, Morens, Murist, Vernay and Vuissens merged into the new municipality of Estavayer.
Sévaz
Village
Photo: Christophe95, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sévaz is a municipality in the district of Broye, in the canton of Fribourg, Switzerland. Sévaz is situated 2½ km west of Morens.
Morens
- Categories: former municipality of Switzerland and locality
- Location: Estavayer, Broye District, Canton of Fribourg, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
46.84382° or 46° 50′ 38″ northLongitude
6.90703° or 6° 54′ 25″ eastPopulation
178Elevation
446 metres (1,463 feet)Open location code
8FR8RWV4+GROpenStreetMap ID
node 1420110566OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2659590Wikidata ID
Q69347
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Welsh—“Morens” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Morens (FR)”
- Albanian: “Morens”
- Aragonese: “Morens”
- Basque: “Morens (FR)”
- Basque: “Morens”
- Catalan: “Morens”
- Cebuano: “Morens (munisipyo)”
- Cebuano: “Morens”
- Chinese: “Morens”
- Chinese: “莫朗”
- Dutch: “Morens”
- Esperanto: “Morens”
- French: “Morens”
- German: “Moreins”
- German: “Morens FR”
- German: “Morens”
- Hungarian: “Morens (FR)”
- Irish: “Morens”
- Italian: “Morens”
- Lombard: “Morens”
- Malay: “Morens (FR)”
- Malay: “Morens, Fribourg”
- Malay: “Morens”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Morens”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Morens”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Morens”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Morens”
- Portuguese: “Morens”
- Romansh: “Morens”
- Spanish: “Morens”
- Swedish: “Morens”
- Turkish: “Morens”
- Upper Sorbian: “Morens”
- Vietnamese: “Morens”
- Volapük: “Morens”
- Waray (Philippines): “Morens”
- Welsh: “Morens”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Base aérienne de Payerne and Musée de l’aviation militaire.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Morens”. Photo: Christophe95, CC BY-SA 3.0.