Lurtigen

Lurtigen/Lourtens
Former municipality
Coat of arms
Location of Lurtigen/Lourtens
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Coordinates: 46°56′N 7°10′E / 46.933°N 7.167°E / 46.933; 7.167
Country	Switzerland
Canton	Fribourg
District	See
Government
• Executive	Gemeinderat with 5 members
• Mayor	Ammann
Area
• Total	2.30 km2 (0.89 sq mi)
Elevation	567 m (1,860 ft)
Population  (Dec 2014)
• Total	183
• Density	80/km2 (210/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (Central European Time)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (Central European Summer Time)
Postal code(s)	3215
SFOS number	2270
ISO 3166 code	CH-FR
Surrounded by	Büchslen, Staatswald Galm, Gempenach, Murten/Morat, Salvenach, Ulmiz
Website	SFSO statistics

Lurtigen (German) or Lourtens (French: [luʁtɑ̃s], Franco-Provençal: [lyʁˈtɛ̃] ^ⓘ) 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.^[1]