#murten

[nobeerreviews]

Listen! The wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves We have had our summer evenings, now for October eves!

-- Humbert Wolfe

(Murten, Switzerland)

[hansdurrer]

Murten, Switzerland, 25 August 2025

[landscapes]

Murten, 2025

[caelestiaal]

morat by neelchen on flickr

please don’t delete the caption or alter the credits, thanks!

[raegi-foto]

Die Dächer von Murten

[schumacherfotografie]

murten   2020-08-24

[svenson777]

The battle of Murten, part of a woodcut by Heinrich Vogtherr the Elder from the chronicle of Stumpf 1548

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Original book title: Gemeiner loblicher Eydgnoschafft Stetten, Landen und Voelckeren Chronick wirdiger thaaten Beschreybung (Stumpfsche Chronik)

Background: The Battle of Morat (also known as the Battle of Murten) was a battle in the Burgundian Wars (1474–77) 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.

Artist: Heinrich Vogtherr d. Ä. (1490 in Dillingen an der Donau – 1556 in Vienna) was an artist, printer, poet and medical author of the Reformation period.

[mike13mt]

Un bout de Morat by krigou