(Germ. Murten), a town and lake of Switzerland, in the canton of Fribourg. The town, which is situated on the eastern shore of the lake, stands on a rocky eminence surmounted by an ancient castle. The lake is about 5 miles in length by 3 in breadth, and is 60 fathoms in depth. It discharges its waters by the River Broye into the Lake of Neuchatel. This place is celebrated as the scene of the victory gained by the Swiss in 1476 over the troops of Charles, Duke of Burgundy, in which the latter lost 15,000 on the field of battle, besides many others drowned in the lake. The bones of the dead remained for three centuries piled up in a building called an ossuary; but this was destroyed, and most of the bones carried away, in 1798, by the soldiers in the Burgundian legion of the French army. The few bones that remained were buried, and an obelisk raised over them on the spot where the ossuary formerly stood.