Corcelles-Cormondrèche

Corcelles-Cormondrèche
State :	Switzerland
Canton :	Neuchâtel (NE)
District :	No district division
BFS no. :	6407
Postal code :	2035 Corcelles 2036 Cormondrèche
Coordinates :	557228  /  204049 coordinates: 46 ° 59 '10 "  N , 6 ° 52' 35"  O ; CH1903:  557228  /  204049
Height :	550  m above sea level M.
Height range :	489–841 m above sea level M.
Area :	4.85  km²
Residents:	4757 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	981 inhabitants per km²
Website:	www.corcelles-cormondreche.ch
Location of the municipality

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

geography

Corcelles-Cormondrèche is around 550  m above sea level. M. , 4 km west of the canton capital Neuchâtel (linear distance). The former street-line village Corcelles ( 565  m above sea level ) extends on the steep southern slope of the Jura , Cormondrèche ( 537  m above sea level ) on a terrace of this slope. Both are in a promising location more than 100 m above the lake level of Lake Neuchâtel .

The area of ​​the 4.9 km² municipal area includes a section on the southern slope of the Jura above Auvernier. To the west of Cormondrèche is the small valley of the brook Ruz Châtru and further west the parish soil extends to the Forêt de Dame Othenette . To the north, the area extends up the slope over the terrace of Les Vernets to the height of the Serroue , at 843  m above sea level. M. is the highest point of Corcelles-Cormondrèche. This partly wooded height closes the high valley Val de Ruz in the southwest. In 1997, 25% of the municipal area was accounted for by settlements, 42% for forests and woodlands and 33% for agriculture.

Corcelles-Cormondrèche has a number of individual farms at the height of the Serroue. The neighboring municipalities of Corcelles-Cormondrèche are Milvignes , Rochefort , Val-de-Ruz and Peseux .

Historical aerial photo from 1000 m by Walter Mittelholzer from 1926

population

With 4757 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2018) Corcelles-Cormondrèche is one of the large municipalities in the canton of Neuchâtel. 87.5% of the residents are French-speaking, 5.2% German-speaking and 2.3% Italian-speaking (as of 2000). The population of Corcelles-Cormondrèche increased continuously until 1970. After stagnation that lasted until 1990, significant growth has been recorded since then. Today both town centers have grown together and are also seamlessly connected to the settlement area of ​​the neighboring municipality of Peseux.

politics

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A total of 41 seats

• GPS : 8
• SP : 11
• Ralliement / glp : 7
• FDP : 15

The legislature of the municipality is the conseil général (German general council ). The 41 members are elected proportionally every four years . Since the election on November 27, 2016, it has been composed as shown in the diagram below.

As the executive acts conseil communal (dt. Council ) composed of seven members.

The voting shares of the parties on the occasion of the National Council election in 2015 were: FDP 32.1%, SP 25.9%, SVP 16.7%, GPS 8.7%, PdA 6.1%, glp 4.9%, CVP 3.5 %, BDP 0.8%.

economy

Population development
year	Residents
1850	823
1900	1460
1950	2243
1960	2932
1970	3320
1980	3141
1990	3336
2000	3914

Corcelles and Cormondrèche were originally wine-growing villages . Today viticulture is of little importance, there are still a few vineyards below Cormondrèche. Gradual industrialization began in the second half of the 18th century . In the meantime Corcelles-Cormondrèche has developed into the residential suburb of Neuchâtel . There are numerous small and medium-sized industrial companies. Many employed people also commute to Neuchâtel. The municipality was the seat of the Neuchâtel Electricity Works (ENSA), after the merger with Entreprises Electriques Fribourgeoises (EEF), one of the headquarters of the newly created Groupe E is now in Corcelles, the other is in Freiburg .

traffic

The community has good transport links. It is located on the main road from Neuchâtel into the Val de Travers and further over the border crossing from Les Verrières to Pontarlier in France . A local bypass is under construction (2006) to relieve the narrow old town center from transit traffic. Above the village, the road branches off over the La Tourne pass to Les Ponts-de-Martel . On December 1, 1859, the Neuchâtel - La Chaux-de-Fonds railway line was inaugurated with a station near Corcelles. The urban network of TN , namely line 1 of the Neuchâtel trolleybus , and the bus line from Neuchâtel via Les Ponts-de-Martel to Le Locle, provide for the fine distribution of public transport .

history

A barrow from the Hallstatt period was discovered in the municipality . There is also evidence of settlement during the Burgundian period in the 7th century. Corcelles was first mentioned in a document in 1092 under the name Curcellis , and in 1228 the name Corsales appeared . The place name goes back to the Latin word corticella ( small courtyard ). Cormondrèche appeared in the scriptures as Cormundresge in 1178 and as Cormundresche in 1215 . This name can probably be derived from Curtis Munderici ( Hof des Munderic ).

In 1092 the grandson of the founder of the Bevaix priory founded a small Cluniac priory in Corcelles. At first it belonged directly to the Cluny Abbey , and after 1220 to the Romainmôtier Monastery . The property of this priory also included the area of ​​today's parishes of Auvernier, Cormondrèche, Montmollin, Coffrane and Les Geneveys-sur-Coffrane . With the introduction of the Reformation in 1530, the priory, which was already in decline, was secularized and ownership fell to the Counts of Neuchâtel and the Lords of Colombier . 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. The two places Corcelles and Cormondrèche joined forces as early as the 18th century. The community belonged to the Mairie La Côte until 1848, and since then to the Boudry district.

Attractions

See also : List of cultural assets in Corcelles-Cormondrèche

The Reformed Church of Saint-Pierre-et-Paul is the successor church to the Corcelles priory. Even from the Romanesque period the tower and parts date of the chancel, the nave and the south chapel were built in the 15th century. The rectory, which dates from the 16th to 18th centuries, stands on the site of the former priory.

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

Web links

Commons : Corcelles-Cormondrèche  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of the municipality of Corcelles-Cormondrèche (French)
• Germain Hausmann: Corcelles-Cormondrèche. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Permanent and non-permanent resident population by year, canton, district, municipality, population type and gender (permanent resident population). In: bfs. admin.ch . Federal Statistical Office (FSO), August 31, 2019, accessed on December 22, 2019 . 
2. ↑ récapitulatif of sièges obtenus par liste de parti. (PDF) Commune de Corcelles-Cormondrèche, November 27, 2016, accessed on December 1, 2016 (French). 
3. ^ Election du Conseil National du October 18, 2015, Résultats des partis - Les suffrages. (aspx) (No longer available online.) Chancellerie d'État neuchâtelois, October 18, 2015, archived from the original on November 1, 2015 ; Retrieved October 30, 2016 (French). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.