Auvernier

Auvernier was a municipality in the district of Boudry in the canton of Neuchâtel in Switzerland. The former German name Avernach is no longer used today. On January 1, 2013, it merged with the municipalities Bôle and Colombier to the new community Milvignes.

Geography

Auvernier is located at 433 m above sea level. M., 4 km west-southwest of the capital of the canton of Neuchâtel (air line). The former winegrower village stretches along the foot of the Jura, near the shores of Lake Neuchâtel.

The area of ​​1.7 km ² large municipality area includes a section on the north shore of Lake Neuchâtel. The communal land ranges from narrow shoreline north across the slope to the height of the terrain terrace of Peseux and Corcelles -Cormondrèche. The highest point of Auvernier is located 530 m above sea level. M. on the edge of this terrace. From the municipality surface 1997 46 % came from settlements, 4% forest and shrubs, 48% to agriculture and slightly less than 2% was unproductive land.

To Auvernier the quarter Beauregard heard above the station. Neighboring communities of Auvernier are Neuenburg, Peseux, Corcelles -Cormondrèche and Colombier.

Population

With 1559 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012) Auvernier belongs to the medium-sized municipalities in the canton of Neuchâtel. Of the 86.2 % inhabitants are French-speaking, German-speaking 6.7 % and 2.2 % Italian-speaking (as of 2000). The population of Auvernier has risen slowly but steadily since 1850 (677 inhabitants).

Economy

Since the Middle Ages Auvernier is a traditional wine-growing and fishing community. The slopes around the village are optimally aligned to the sun and are suitable for growing grapes. Since 1888 Auvernier is the seat of the cantonal school of viticulture (now Service Cantonal de viticulture ). In recent decades, Auvernier developed for residential community with a high percentage of Wegpendlern, who work mainly in neighboring Neuchâtel.

Traffic

The community is a very good transport developed. It lies on the main road 5 of Neuchâtel to Yverdon, which was released in 1977 with the opening of the highway section A5 of Serrières to Boudry. In the area of the village, the highway was transferred to a these constructions. As part of the motorway construction, the landscape learned along the lakeshore massive interventions: Around 17 hectares of land were heaped up and designed the new bank with recreational facilities.

On 7 November 1859, the railway line Yverdon- Neuchatel opened with a station in Auvernier. On July 25, 1860, the inauguration of the line Auvernier found - Les Verrières instead. This line branches west from the station Auvernier of the Jurasüdfusslinie. Opened in 1892, The interurban 5 tram Neuchâtel also has a stop in Auvernier.

History

Auvernier can look back on a very long urban tradition. 1855 remains were discovered by stilt houses and excavated in the period following the lake edge. The settlement site Auvernier is one of the most important prehistoric sites in Switzerland and gave the Auvernier phase, a portion of the later Swiss Neolithic, the name. The place was probably inhabited from the 4th to the 1st millennium BC. 1876 ​​also a megalithic grave was discovered. Even during the Roman period and during the Burgundian Auvernier was inhabited. It was a Jupiter Statuette found.

The first written mention of the village was carried out in 1011 under the name Averniacum. The area then part of the Kingdom of Burgundy. During the 14th century the Counts of Neuchâtel extended their power on Auvernier. Since 1648 Neuchâtel principality and 1707 was linked by personal union with the Kingdom of Prussia. 1806, the region was ceded to Napoleon I. and came in 1815 during the Congress of Vienna to the Swiss Confederation, whereby the kings of Prussia until 1857 Neuchâtel trade also prince of Neuchâtel remained. Auvernier belonged until 1848 to the Mairie of La Côte, since the district of Boudry.

Attractions

Auvernier has a picturesque townscape. In the upper part of the village is the Protestant church. It was created by multiple alterations and enlargements of 1478 and built chapel dedicated to Saint- Nicolas. Noteworthy is the so-called house built around 1530 of the Civil Hospital of Solothurn with a stair tower. The Grand ' Rue, which connects the upper to the lower part of the village is lined on both sides by town houses from the 16th and 17th centuries. To the west of the village is the castle flanked by two turrets, built in 1559 and enlarged in the 17th century.

Grand'Rue

Port du vin

Looking eastward to the village