Lurtigen
Lurtigen or Lourtens is a former municipality in the district of See in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland. Its French name, little-used today, is Lourtens.- Type: Village with 181 residents
- Description: village and former municipality in Morat the canton of Fribourg, Switzerland
- Also known as: “Lourtens” and “Lurtigen FR”
- Postal code: 3215
Places of Interest
Highlights include Galmiz railway station and Löwenberg Castle.
Galmiz railway station
Railway station
Photo: Zenit, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Galmiz railway station is a railway station in the municipality of Galmiz, in the Swiss canton of Fribourg. It is an intermediate stop on the standard gauge Palézieux–Lyss line of Swiss Federal Railways. Galmiz railway station is situated 3 km northwest of Lurtigen.
Löwenberg Castle
Manor estate
Photo: WWHenderson20, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Löwenberg Castle or Château de la Motte is a castle in the municipality of Murten/Morat, in the Swiss canton of Fribourg. It is classified as a heritage site of national significance. Löwenberg Castle is situated 3 km northwest of Lurtigen.
Cressier FR railway station
Railway station
Photo: DidiWeidmann, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Cressier FR railway station is a railway station in the municipality of Cressier, in the Swiss canton of Fribourg. It is an intermediate stop on the standard gauge Fribourg–Ins line of Transports publics Fribourgeois. Cressier FR railway station is situated 3½ km southwest of Lurtigen.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Altavilla and Büchslen.
Altavilla
Hamlet
Altavilla is a village and former municipality in the district of See in the canton of Fribourg, Switzerland.
Büchslen
Hamlet
Photo: DidiWeidmann, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Büchslen is a former municipality in the district of See in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland. On 1 January 2013 the former municipality of Büchslen merged into the municipality of Morat.
Ulmiz
Village
Photo: DidiWeidmann, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Ulmiz is a former municipality in the district of See in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland. It was one of the municipalities with a large majority of German speakers in the mostly French speaking Canton of Fribourg.
Lurtigen
- Categories: former municipality of Switzerland, neighborhood, and locality
- Location: Murten, See, Canton of Fribourg, Western Switzerland, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
46.92857° or 46° 55′ 43″ northLongitude
7.17226° or 7° 10′ 20″ eastPopulation
181Elevation
565 metres (1,854 feet)Open location code
8FR9W5HC+CWOpenStreetMap ID
node 240109370OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2659824Wikidata ID
Q69895
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Satellite Map
Discover Lurtigen from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Albanian to Welsh—“Lurtigen” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Lurtigen”
- Cebuano: “Lurtigen (munisipyo)”
- Cebuano: “Lurtigen”
- Chinese: “Lurtigen”
- Chinese: “呂爾蒂岡”
- Dutch: “Lurtigen”
- Esperanto: “Lourtens”
- Esperanto: “Lurtigen”
- Esperanto: “Neumatt”
- French: “Lourtens”
- French: “Lurtigen”
- German: “Lourtens”
- German: “Lurtigen”
- Hungarian: “Lurtigen”
- Irish: “Lurtigen”
- Italian: “Lourtens”
- Italian: “Lurtigen”
- Lombard: “Lurtigen”
- Malay: “Lurtigen”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Lurtigen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Lurtigen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lurtigen”
- Romansh: “Lurtigen”
- Spanish: “Lurtigen”
- Swedish: “Lurtigen”
- Turkish: “Lurtigen”
- Upper Sorbian: “Lurtigen”
- Vietnamese: “Lurtigen”
- Volapük: “Lurtigen”
- Waray (Philippines): “Lurtigen”
- Welsh: “Lurtigen”
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