Hauterive NE

NE is the abbreviation for the canton of Neuchâtel in Switzerland and is used to avoid confusion with other entries of the name Hauterive .

Hauterive
State :	Switzerland
Canton :	Neuchâtel (NE)
District :	No district division
BFS no. :	6454
Postal code :	2068
UN / LOCODE :	CH HTE
Coordinates :	564 432  /  207243 coordinates: 47 ° 0 '55 "  N , 6 ° 58' 15"  O ; CH1903:  564 432  /  207243
Height :	501  m above sea level M.
Height range :	425–1060 m above sea level M.
Area :	2.13  km²
Residents:	2623 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	1231 inhabitants per km²
Website:	www.hauterive.ch
Laténium Museum in Hauterive
Location of the municipality

Hauterive is a municipality in the canton of Neuchâtel in Switzerland . The former German name Altenryf is no longer used today. After the merger of the former Freiburg communities Ecuvillens and Posieux to Hauterive (FR) , the Neuchâtel community of the same name was officially renamed Hauterive (NE) in 2001 .

geography

Hauterive lies at 501  m above sea level. M. , 4 km northeast of the canton capital Neuchâtel (linear distance). The village extends on a terrace on the lower southern slope of the Chaumont , in a panoramic position around 70 m above the shores of Lake Neuchâtel .

The area of ​​the 2.1 km² municipal area includes a section of the steep southern slope of the Chaumont. The communal soil extends from the lakeshore over the cultivated area, which is partly covered with vines, up the wooded southern slopes of the Jura (Côte d'Hauterive) to the edge of the Chaumont. Here with 1060  m above sea level. M. reached the highest point of Hauterive. In 1997, 26 percent of the municipal area was in settlements, 59 percent in forests and woodland, 14 percent in agriculture and a little less than 1 percent was unproductive land.

The Champréveyres settlement , 440  m above sea level, belongs to Hauterive . M. along the main road near the lake shore. Neuchâtel and Saint-Blaise are neighboring municipalities to Hauterive .

Historical aerial photo from 1000 m by Walter Mittelholzer from 1926

geology

The geological epoch Hauterivium in the Lower Cretaceous is named after Hauterive . The easily degradable, finely structured rock layer (pierre jaune de Neuchâtel) was already known to the Romans and was used for the construction of Aventicum ( Avenches ). In the old town of Neuchâtel, all buildings must be clad with this stone.

population

Population development
year	Residents
1850	345
1900	654
1950	745
1960	1097
1970	2213
1980	2545
1990	2289
2000	2637

With 2,623 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2018), Hauterive is one of the larger municipalities in the canton of Neuchâtel. Of the residents, 82.5% are French-speaking, 6.2% German-speaking and 3.5% Italian-speaking (as of 2000). Particularly during the 1960s, significant population growth rates were recorded.

politics

The voting shares of the parties at the 2015 National Council election were: FDP 36.0%, SP 22.5%, SVP 17.4%, GPS 8.0%, PdA 5.1%, glp 4.5%, CVP 3.8 %, List you vote blanc 1.0%, BDP 0.8%.

economy

Hauterive used to be mainly a winemaking village, but over the course of the 20th century it has developed into a residential community. Today the built-up area of ​​Hauterive has merged with that of the neighboring municipalities of Neuchâtel and Saint-Blaise. Viticulture is practiced on the slopes on the north shore of Lake Neuchâtel, which are optimally exposed to the sun (Champréveyres wine-growing region).

traffic

The community has good transport links. It is located on the main road 5 from Biel to Neuchâtel and on the A5 motorway . On November 7, 1859, the railway line from Neuchâtel to Le Landeron was opened with a station in Saint-Blaise, the western part of which is in the municipality of Hauterive. Hauterive is also served by the transport company Transports en commun de Neuchâtel et environs , this is done by line 7 of the Neuchâtel trolleybus .

history

Traces of settlement from the Upper Palaeolithic , Neolithic and Bronze Age ( pile dwellings ) have been found on the shores of Lake Neuchâtel . During the Roman period , the partly paved road Vy d'Etra ran through the municipality.

The first written mention of the village under the name Alta Ripa dates back to 1143, when the Fontaine-André Abbey was founded. The monks cultivated viticulture and ran a wine press. Hauterive belonged to the county of Neuchâtel. 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.

A stele was erected in Hauterive in 2011 to commemorate Maurice Bavaud . Before the Second World War , Bavaud tried to shoot Adolf Hitler in Munich. He was arrested, tortured and beheaded in 1941.

Attractions

See also : List of cultural assets in Hauterive NE

The three-storey former schoolhouse with arcades, which originally dates back to the 15th century, stands on the village square. In the town center there are other old patrician houses, including the Court house from 1577 and the Clottu house, built in the 17th century.

Also known is the 2016 Gallery, where works by contemporary artists are shown. The archaeological park and the cantonal museum Laténium are located directly on the lake .

Personalities

• Maurice Bavaud (1916–1941), attempted assassination against Hitler
• Yann Richter (1928–2008), politician, party president and national councilor

Web links

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

• Official website of the municipality of Hauterive NE
• Hervé Miéville and Germain Hausmann: Hauterive (NE). 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. ^ 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.