Lurtigen
Sign in to savethumb|Lurtigen with the school building (left) Lurtigen (German) 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. It is one of the municipalities with a large majority of German speakers in the mostly French speaking Canton of Fribourg. On 1 January 2016 the former municipalities of Courlevon, Jeuss, Lurtigen and Salvenach merged into Murten.
Key facts
- Swiss town.subject_name
- Lurtigen/Lourtens
- Swiss town.municipality_type
- former
- Swiss town.imagepath_coa
- Lurtigen-coat of arms.svg
- Swiss town.canton
- Fribourg
- Swiss town.iso code region
- CH-FR
- Swiss town.district
- See
- Swiss town.postal_code
- 3215
- Swiss town.municipality_code
- 2270
- Swiss town.area
- 2.30
- Swiss town.elevation
- 567
- Swiss town.population
- 183
- Swiss town.populationof
- Dec 2014
- Swiss town.popofyear
- 2014
- Swiss town.mayor_title
- Ammann
- Swiss town.executive_name
- Gemeinderat
- Swiss town.executive_number_of_members
- 5
- Swiss town.neighboring_municipalities
- Büchslen, Staatswald Galm, Gempenach, Murten/Morat, Salvenach, Ulmiz
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thumb|Lurtigen with the school building (left) Lurtigen (German) 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. It is one of the municipalities with a large majority of German speakers in the mostly French speaking Canton of Fribourg. On 1 January 2016 the former municipalities of Courlevon, Jeuss, Lurtigen and Salvenach merged into Murten.
==History== Lurtigen is first mentioned in 1397 as Lurtens. In 1508 it was mentioned as Lurting.