Corcelles-Cormondrèche

Corcelles -Cormondrèche is a municipality in the district of Boudry in the canton of Neuchâtel in Switzerland.

Geography

Corcelles -Cormondrèche located at about 550 m above sea level. M., 4 km west of the capital of the canton of Neuchâtel (air line). The former street lines Corcelles village ( 565 m above sea level. M. ) extends the steep Jura south slope, Cormondrèche (537 m above sea level. M. ) on a terrace of this slope. Both are located on scenic location more than 100 m above the lake level of Lake Neuchâtel.

The area of ​​4.9 km ² large municipality area includes a portion of the Jura south slope above Auvernier. West of Cormondrèche is the small valley of the brook Ruz Chatru and west ranges of communal land to the Forêt de lady Othenette. To the north, the area extends up the slope on the terrace of Les Vernet's up to the height of the Serroue, on 843 m above sea level. M. the highest point of Corcelles -Cormondrèche is. This partly wooded height includes the high Val de Ruz from the southwest. From the municipality surface 1997 25 % came from settlements, 42 % of forest and woody plants and 33% to agriculture.

To Corcelles -Cormondrèche include some individual farms at the height of Serroue. Neighboring communities of Corcelles -Cormondrèche are Milvignes, Rochefort, Val- de -Ruz and Peseux.

Population

With 4662 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012) Corcelles -Cormondrèche one of the great municipalities in the canton of Neuchâtel. Of the 87.5 % inhabitants are French-speaking, German-speaking 5.2 % and 2.3 % Italian-speaking (as of 2000). The population of Corcelles -Cormondrèche has increased continuously until 1970. After a period of stagnation that lasted until 1990, significant growth was recorded again since then. Today, both town centers have grown together and depend also seamlessly with the settlement area of ​​the neighboring community Peseux together.

Economy

Corcelles and Cormondrèche were originally wine villages. Today, the vineyard has only minor importance, there are still some vineyards below Cormondrèche. Since the second half of the 18th century a gradual industrialization took place. Meanwhile Corcelles -Cormondrèche has developed into the residential suburb of Neuchâtel. There are numerous small and medium-sized industrial enterprises. Many workers commute but also to Neuchâtel. The church was the seat of Neuchâtel Electricity ( ENSA ), after the merger with the Entreprises Electriques Fribourgeoises (EDF ) is now the seat of a newly formed Groupe E in Corcelles, the other is in Freiburg.

Traffic

The community is conveniently moderately well developed. It lies on the main road from Neuchâtel in the Val de Travers and on over the border crossing from Les Verrières to Pontarlier in France. A local bypass road is under construction ( 2006), to relieve the narrow old town center by transit traffic. Above the town, the road branches off on the pass La Tourne to Les Ponts- de -Martel. On 1 December 1859, the railway line was Neuchâtel - La Chaux -de-Fonds inaugurated with a station at Corcelles. For the dispersion in public transport the city's network of TN, especially the line 1 of Neuchâtel trolleybus, and bus lines of Neuchâtel via Les Ponts- de -Martel to Le Locle provides.

History

The municipal area is a hill grave was discovered from the Hallstatt period. Furthermore, there is evidence of a settlement during the Burgundian in the 7th century. The first mention of Corcelles was in 1092 under the name Curcellis 1228 appeared the name Corsales. The place name comes from the Latin word Corticella ( small yard ). Cormondrèche appeared in 1178 as Cormundresge, 1215 as Cormundresche in the scriptures. This name can probably be of Curtis Munderici ( courtyard of the mouth Eric ) can be derived.

1092 founded the grandson of the founder of the Priory Bevaix in Corcelles a small Cluniac Priory. It first belonged directly to the Cluny Abbey, by 1220 the monastery Romainmôtier. The possession of this priory also included the territory of modern communities Auvernier, Cormondrèche, Mont Mollin, Coffrane and Geneveys -sur -Coffrane. With the introduction of the Reformation in 1530, the nascent already in decay priory was secularized and the property fell to the Counts of Neuchâtel and to the Lords of Colombier. 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, the kings of Prussia until 1857 Neuchâtel trade also prince of Neuchâtel remained. Already in the 18th century, the two towns Corcelles and Cormondrèche merged. The village belonged until 1848 to the Mairie of La Côte, since the district of Boudry.

Attractions

The Reformed Church of Saint- Pierre -et -Paul is the successor of the Priory Church Corcelles. Still from the Roman period are the tower and part of the choir, the nave and the south chapel was built in the 15th century. At the site of the former priory today there is a parsonage, which dates from the period of 16th to 18th century.

The town centers of Corcelles and Cormondrèche show the character of wine-growing villages with narrow streets, lined with many houses from the 16th to the 18th century. The castle at Cormondrèche was built in the 16th century, remodeled several times in the 18th and 19th centuries.