Villiers NE

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

Villiers

State :

Switzerland

Canton :

Neuchâtel (NE)

District :

No district division

Municipality :

Val-de-Ruz

Postal code :

2057

former BFS no. :

6486

Coordinates :

564 578 / 214 036 coordinates: 47 ° 4 '35 " N , 6 ° 58' 20" O ; CH1903: five hundred and sixty-four thousand five hundred and seventy-eight / 214,036

Height :

760 m above sea level M.

Area :

10.59 km²

Residents:

497 (December 31, 2012)

Population density :

47 inhabitants per km²

map

Parish before the merger on January 1, 2013

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

geography

Villiers is 760 m above sea level. M. , ten kilometers north-northeast of the canton capital Neuchâtel (linear distance ). The farming village extends in the valley of the Seyon in the extreme northeast of the basin of the Val de Ruz in the Neuchâtel Jura , between the Jura ranges of the Mont d'Amin in the north and the Chaumont in the east.

The area of the 10.6 km² municipal area comprised a small section in the northeast of the valley of the Val de Ruz. In the north, the area reached the height of Les Planches (up to 1000 m above sea level. M. ) and also included the Klus of Chenau , the valley between Villiers and Le Pâquier . To the east, the parish extended to the anticline of the Chaumont and the Chuffort. In a long narrow corner, Villiers reached northeast over the anticline valley Combe Biosse to the slopes west of the Chasseral , where at 1550 m above sea level. M. the highest point of the municipality was reached. On the Jura heights there are extensive high pastures with the typical mighty spruce trees , which either stand individually or in groups. In 1997, 3% of the municipal area was accounted for by settlements, 54% for forests and woodlands and 43% for agriculture.

The hamlet of Clémesin , 1004 m above sea level, belongs to Villiers . M. on the western slope of the Chasseral chain above the Klus von Chenau, as well as numerous individual farms scattered across the Jura heights. Villiers' neighboring communities were Le Pâquier , Dombresson , Savagnier , Enges and Lignières in the canton of Neuchâtel and Nods , Villeret and Saint-Imier in the canton of Bern .

Historical aerial photo from 1600 m by Walter Mittelholzer from 1926

population

With 497 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2012) Villiers was one of the smaller communities in the canton of Neuchâtel. In 2000, 96.2% of the residents were French-speaking, 2.3% German-speaking and 0.5% English-speaking. The population of Villiers had decreased sharply from 1900 (400 inhabitants) to 1950 (245 inhabitants), but since then it has been increasing again.

economy

Until the beginning of the 20th century, Villiers was mainly an agricultural village. Around 1900 there were several watchmaking and mills on the Seyon. Today the residents live from local small businesses and livestock . In the last few decades Villiers has developed into a residential community. Numerous workers are therefore commuters and work mainly in Neuchâtel.

traffic

The place is on the cantonal road from Neuchâtel via Dombresson over the Col des Pontins pass to Saint-Imier. It is connected to the public transport network by the bus line that runs from Neuchâtel via Cernier to Villiers. From 1903 to 1948 Villiers was the terminus of the Les Hauts-Geneveys – Villiers tram . It was replaced by the Val de Ruz trolleybus , which in turn was replaced by buses in 1984.

history

The first written mention of the place took place in 1191 under the name Villier . Villiers 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 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. Villiers does not have its own church, it belongs to the parish of Dombresson .

Attractions

Web links

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

Villiers
Maurice Évard: Villiers. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .