This is a list of mayors of Murten (Stadtammann von Murten , Syndic de Morat), Canton of Fribourg, Switzerland.
| Term | Mayor | Lifespan | Party | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1848–1861 (1st) | Eduard Huber | (1818–1893) | ||
| 1879–1893 (2nd) | Eduard Huber | (1818–1893) | ||
| Max Friolet | (1878–1943) | |||
| -1972 | Fernand Simon | |||
| 1972–1987 | Albert Engel (mayor) | (-2001) | ||
| 1995–2011 | Christiane Feldmann | |||
| 2011–present | Christian Brechbühl | FDP/PRD |
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The canton of Fribourg, also canton of Freiburg is located in western Switzerland. The canton is bilingual, with French spoken by more than two thirds of the citizens and German by a little more than a quarter. Both are official languages in the canton. The canton takes its name from its capital city of Fribourg.
Lake Morat or 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.
There are 337 municipalities in the canton of Bern, Switzerland.
There are 126 municipalities in the canton of Fribourg, Switzerland.
Expo.02 was the 6th Swiss national exposition, which was held from 15 May to 20 October 2002. The exposition took place around the lakes of Neuchâtel, Bienne/Biel and Morat/Murten. It was divided into five sites, which were called Arteplages, due to the proximity of the water. The five arteplages were located in Neuchâtel, Yverdon-les-Bains, Morat/Murten, Biel/Bienne and on a mobile barge traveling from one site to another. The barge represented the canton of Jura, which does not have access to any one of the three lakes.
Murten (German) or Morat is a bilingual municipality and a city in the See district of the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland.
The Battle of Morat was a battle in the Burgundian Wars (1474–1477) that was fought on 22 June 1476 between Charles the Bold, the Duke of Burgundy, and a Swiss Confederate army at Morat (Murten), about 30 kilometres from Bern. The result was a crushing defeat for the Burgundians at the hands of the Swiss.
See or Lac District is one of the seven districts of the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland. Lying to the north of the canton, the district is bilingual (French/German). Its territory enclaves the two Bernese municipalities of Münchenwiler and Clavaleyres, while its own village of Wallenbuch is an exclave within Bern. It has a population of 37,695.
Coregonus confusus is a freshwater whitefish from Switzerland. It is also known by its native Swiss German common name, spelled pfärrit, pfarrig, and pfärrig. It was described as Coregonus annectens confusus by Victor Fatio in 1885 from syntypes which have been lost in 1902. The species is rare and only known with certainty from Lake Biel. There is also a possibility that it might occur in Lake Neuchâtel. It vanished from Lake Murten in the 1960s due to eutrophication and water level management.
Petinesca is an archeological site on the territory of Studen, a community of the Canton of Bern, in Switzerland, where Celtic and Roman vestiges were found.
Ten referendums were held in Switzerland in 1990. The first six were held on 1 April on four popular initiatives, a federal resolution on viticulture and an amendment to the federal law on the organisation of the federal judiciary. The four popular initiatives were all related to roadbuilding; "Stop the concrete – for a limitation on road making," "for an autobahn-free countryside between Murten and Yverdon," "for an autobahn-free Knonauer Amt," and "for a free Aarelandschaft between Biel and Solothurn/Zuchwil." All six were rejected by voters.
The 1970 Tour de Suisse was the 34th edition of the Tour de Suisse cycle race and was held from 11 June to 19 June 1970. The race started in Murten and finished in Zürich. The race was won by Roberto Poggiali of the Salvarani team.
The 1965 Tour de Suisse was the 29th edition of the Tour de Suisse cycle race and was held from 10 June to 16 June 1965. The race started in Murten and finished in Bern. The race was won by Franco Bitossi of the Filotex team.
The 1964 Tour de Suisse was the 28th edition of the Tour de Suisse cycle race and was held from 11 June to 17 June 1964. The race started in Murten and finished in Lausanne. The race was won by Rolf Maurer of the Cynar team.
The Palézieux–Lyss railway is a single-track standard-gauge line of the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) in Romandy.
The Fribourg–Ins railway line is a single-track standard-gauge line in Switzerland operated by Transports publics Fribourgeois. It was built by the Chemin de fer Fribourg–Morat–Anet (FMA).
Kerzers railway station is a railway station in the municipality of Kerzers, in the Swiss canton of Fribourg. It is located at the junction of the standard gauge Bern–Neuchâtel line of BLS AG and the standard gauge Palézieux–Lyss line of Swiss Federal Railways.
Muntelier-Löwenberg railway station is a railway station in the municipality of Murten, in the Swiss canton of Fribourg. It is located at the northern junction of the standard gauge Fribourg–Ins and Palézieux–Lyss lines of Swiss Federal Railways. It takes its name from the nearby municipality of Muntelier.
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.
The S9 is a railway service of RER Vaud that provides hourly service between Lausanne and Kerzers in the Swiss cantons of Vaud and Fribourg, respectively. Swiss Federal Railways, the national railway company of Switzerland, operates the service.