Engollon

State :

Switzerland

Canton :

Neuchâtel (NE)

District :

No district division

Municipality :

Val-de-Ruz

Postal code :

2063

former BFS no. :

6476

Coordinates :

560753 / 209 892 coordinates: 47 ° 2 '20 " N , 6 ° 55' 20" O ; CH1903: 560753 / two hundred and nine thousand eight hundred ninety-two

Height :

727 m above sea level M.

Area :

2.62 km²

Residents:

105 (December 31, 2012)

Population density :

40 inhabitants per km²

map

Parish before the merger on January 1, 2013

Engollon was a municipality in the Val-de-Ruz district in the canton of Neuchâtel in Switzerland . On January 1, 2013, it merged with the municipalities of Boudevilliers , Cernier , Chézard-Saint-Martin , Coffrane , Dombresson , Fenin-Vilars-Saules , Fontainemelon , Fontaines , Les Geneveys-sur-Coffrane , Les Hauts-Geneveys , Montmollin , Le Pâquier , Savagnier and Villiers to form the new municipality of Val-de-Ruz .

geography

Engollon is 727 m above sea level. M. , five kilometers north of the canton capital Neuchâtel (linear distance ). The farming village extends in the middle of the Val de Ruz basin in the Neuchâtel Jura , between the valleys of the Seyon in the east and the Morguenet in the west.

The area of the municipality area of 2.6 km² includes a small section in the central part of the syncline of the Val de Ruz. The eastern border forms the course of the Seyon, the western border runs along the side stream Morguenet. Engollon has a share in the agriculturally intensively used valley of the Val de Ruz. The highest point in the municipality is at Sous Charrière ( 757 m above sea level ). In 1997, 5% of the municipal area was in settlements, 12% in forests and woodlands, 82% in agriculture and a little less than 1% was unproductive land.

The neighboring municipalities of Engollon are Fontaines , Cernier , Chézard-Saint-Martin , Savagnier and Fenin-Vilars-Saules .

Historical aerial photo from 1500 m by Walter Mittelholzer from 1927

population

With 105 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2012) Engollon is one of the smallest communities in the canton of Neuchâtel. 96.0% of the residents are French-speaking and 2.7% German-speaking (as of 2000). Engollon had 135 inhabitants in 1850; the population fell to 60 by 1980, but has since then increased slightly again.

economy

Engollon is still today a mainly agricultural village, with arable farming and some fruit growing predominant. Outside of the primary sector, there are only a few jobs in town, so that some workers go to work abroad, especially in Neuchâtel.

traffic

The community is located off the main thoroughfares a little above the cantonal road from Neuchâtel over the Col des Pontins to Saint-Imier . Engollon is connected to the train stations of Les Hauts-Geneveys and Les Geneveys-sur-Coffrane by the bus line .

history

The first written mention of Engollon took place in 1228 under the name Engolun . The small town of La Bonneville, destroyed in 1301, was located southwest of Engollon, near the mouth of the Morguenet in the Seyon . Some of the ramparts are still visible today. Engollon belonged to the lordship of Valangin , which was partly subordinate to the Counts of Neuchâtel, partly to the Counts of Montbéliard and finally came to Neuchâtel in 1592. From 1648 Neuchâtel was a principality and from 1707 it was linked to the Kingdom of Prussia through a 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.

Attractions

In the Middle Ages, Engollon was the center of a parish that comprised all neighboring parishes in the Val de Ruz. Today's Reformed parish church of Saint-Pierre has a choir from the 13th century, the nave from the 17th century and the tower from 1803. During a renovation in 1923, important wall paintings from the 14th and 15th centuries were discovered and exposed in the choir .

The only reggae festival in French-speaking Switzerland takes place in the municipality of Engollon : the Festi Val-de-Roots (www.valderoots.com). While 2005 was a pure reggae festival, in 2006 Val-de-Roots offers different styles.

Web links

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

Community information Engollon
Maurice Evard: Engollon. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .