Bole

State :

Switzerland

Canton :

Neuchâtel (NE)

District :

No district division

Municipality :

Milvignes

Postal code :

2014

former BFS no. :

6403

Coordinates :

554 571 / 202061 coordinates: 46 ° 58 '5 " N , 6 ° 50' 30" O ; CH1903: five hundred and fifty-four thousand five hundred seventy-one / 202061

Height :

523 m above sea level M.

Area :

2.58 km²

Residents:

1806 (December 31, 2012)

Population density :

700 inhabitants per km²

Website:

www.bole.ch

map

Parish before the merger on January 1, 2013

Bôle was a municipality in the district of Boudry in the canton of Neuchâtel in Switzerland . On January 1, 2013, it merged with the municipalities of Auvernier and Colombier to form the new municipality of Milvignes .

geography

Bôle lies at 523 m above sea level. M. , seven kilometers west-southwest of the canton capital Neuchâtel (linear distance ). The village extends on the lower southern slopes of the Jura in a panoramic position around 100 m above Lake Neuchâtel and the embankment fan of the Areuse .

The area of the 2.6 km² municipal area comprises a narrow section on the southern slope of the Jura above Boudry, mostly east of the Merdasson valley. In the south, the parish soil extends to the upstream Planeyse plateau . To the north, the area extends up the slope into the Bois Devant , in which at 674 m above sea level. M. the highest point of Bôle is reached. In 1997, 25% of the municipal area was in settlements, 46% in forests and woodlands, 27% in agriculture and a little less than 2% was unproductive land.

The neighboring municipalities of Bôle are Boudry , Rochefort and Colombier .

Historic aerial photo by Walter Mittelholzer from 1926

population

With 1806 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2012), Bôle is one of the medium-sized municipalities in the canton of Neuchâtel. 90.0% of the residents are French-speaking, 3.9% German-speaking and 1.6% Italian-speaking (as of 2000). The population of Bôle has increased significantly since 1950 (571 inhabitants).

economy

Until the middle of the 20th century, Bôle was mainly an agricultural village. Viticulture prevails below the town center and in the Merdasson valley . In the last few decades, Bôle has gradually developed into a residential community. There are only small and medium-sized industrial companies in the village. Many employed people are therefore commuters and work in Neuchâtel or in the industrial zones of Boudry and Colombier.

traffic

The community has good transport links. It is located on the cantonal road from Colombier to Rochefort , which then continues over the La Tourne pass into the Vallée des Ponts . On November 7, 1859, the Yverdon - Neuchâtel railway line was opened. The Colombier train station is located on the municipal border between Colombier and Bôle. The Auvernier - Les Verrières railway line, inaugurated on July 25, 1860, runs above the village center, but it was not until 1895 that it had a stop in Bôle. The bus route from Colombier via Bôle to Rochefort takes care of the fine distribution in public transport.

history

In Roman times , the Vy d'Etra, a trade route, ran through what is now the Bôle; however, nothing is known of a settlement. The earliest evidence of settlement in the municipality are the 30 or so graves from the Merovingian era found near the church . The first written mention of the place was in 1346 under the name Boule . Later names were Bosle and Bulla .

Until 1848 Bôle belonged to the Boudry Castle Bailiwick, which was under the sovereignty of the Counts of Neuchâtel. From 1648 Neuchâtel was a principality and from 1707 it was linked to the Kingdom of Prussia through personal union. In 1806 the area was ceded to Napoleon I and came to the Swiss Confederation in the course of the Congress of Vienna in 1815 , whereby the kings of Prussia until the Neuchâtel trade in 1857 also remained princes of Neuchâtel. Bôle only became a separate parish in 1860.

Attractions

Web links

Commons : Bôle - collection of images, videos and audio files

Official website of the municipality of Bôle (French)
Germain Hausmann: Bôle. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .