Clarens VD

Clarens
State :	Switzerland
Canton :	Vaud (VD)
District :	Riviera-Pays-d'Enhaut
Municipality :	Montreux
Postal code :	1815
UN / LOCODE :	CH MNT
Coordinates :	558287  /  143 361 coordinates: 46 ° 26 '25 "  N , 6 ° 53' 45"  O ; CH1903:  558287  /  one hundred forty-three thousand three hundred sixty-one
Height :	380  m above sea level M.
Website:	www.montreux.ch
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Clarens is a district of the city of Montreux in Romandie , Switzerland . It lies on the alluvial cone of the Baye de Clarens and was made famous by Rousseau's epistolary novel Julie or The New Heloise , which is set in Clarens. In the 19th century, the place developed into the preferred retirement home of a wealthy elite.

Aerial photo (1964)

Transport and infrastructure

Clarens lies on Lake Geneva and is approached by the ships of the Compagnie Générale de Navigation sur le Lac Léman (CGN).

By Clarens the wrong trolleybus line 201 Vevey-Montreux-Villeneuve-Cillon the same transport company of public transport . Clarens also has a stop on the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) line from Lausanne to Brig ( Simplon line ), which is served by two Léman Express lines.

From 1911 to 1956, the Clarens-Chailly-Blonay Railway (CCB) ran from Clarens via Chailly and Fontanivent to Blonay. Today the bus route 214 operated by the transport company Vevey – Montreux – Chillon – Villeneuve (VMCV) travels the same route.

A branch of the international private school St. George's School is located in Clarens.

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  Clarens around 1882

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  Châtelard Castle in the immediate vicinity of the Quartier Tavel von Clarens

Attractions

See also : List of cultural assets in Montreux

• The Villas Dubochet
• Châtelard Castle in the immediate vicinity of Quartier Tavel.

Personalities

• The anarchist and geographer Élisée Reclus (1830-1905) lived in Clarens from around 1872.
• The composer Igor Stravinsky wrote the ballets Le sacre du printemps (1913) and Pulcinella (1919) here.
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky composed his only violin concerto in Clarens in March 1878, the Violin Concerto in D major op.35 .
• Paul Kruger , the longtime President of the South African Republic , died in Clarens. As a reminder, a city in South Africa was called Clarens .
• Vladimir Nabokow , who lived with his wife for many years at the Hotel Montreux Palace in Montreux and died there, is buried in the Clarens cemetery.
• Sydney Chaplin , British film actor and half-brother of Charlie Chaplin, is buried in Clarens Cemetery.
• Oskar Kokoschka , who died in Montreux on February 22, 1980, is also buried in the Clarens cemetery (his mother and younger brother Bohuslav Kokoschka , with whom Oskar had a very close relationship throughout his life, are in a crypt in Hollenstein an der Ybbs ).
• The French economist Léon Walras died in Clarens and is buried here.

Web links

Commons : Clarens VD  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ge.ch, French-language commercial register of the canton of Geneva, spelling Compagnie Générale de Navigation sur le Lac Léman for the entry of Michel Jeannet (ship restoration). Accessed on November 29, 2016
2. ^ Gilles Barbey, Hans Maurer, Jacques Gubler: Les Villas Dubochet à Clarens, ensemble résidentiel de la Riviéra lémanique. (Swiss Art Guide, No. 288). Ed. Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Bern 1981, ISBN 3-85782-288-0 .
3. ^ Robert Savary: Léon Walras. In: Find a Grave . November 11, 2015, accessed October 26, 2019 .