Fleurier
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| Population | 3,518 (December 2007) | |||||||||
| - Density | 455 /km2 (1,177 /sq mi) | |||||||||
| Area | 7.74 km2 (2.99 sq mi) | |||||||||
| Elevation | 741 m (2,431 ft) | |||||||||
| Postal code | 2114 | |||||||||
| SFOS number | 6506 | |||||||||
| Surrounded by | Boveresse, Buttes, Fontaines-sur-Grandson (VD), Mauborget (VD), Môtiers, Romairon (VD), Saint-Sulpice | |||||||||
| Website | fleurier.ne.ch Profile (French), SFSO statistics |
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Fleurier was a municipality in the district of Val-de-Travers in the canton of Neuchâtel in Switzerland. On 1 January 2009, the former municipalities of Boveresse, Buttes, Couvet, Fleurier, Les Bayards, Môtiers, Noiraigue, Saint-Sulpice and Travers merged to form Val-de-Travers.[1]
The Nobel laureates, physicist Charles Edouard Guillaume and pharmacologist Daniel Bovet, both originated from Fleurier. Parmigiani Fleurier and Bovet Fleurier are two luxury watchmaking companies, based in Fleurier.
[edit] References
- ^ Amtliches Gemeindeverzeichnis der Schweiz published by the Swiss Federal Statistical Office (German) accessed 14 January 2010
[edit] External links
- Fleurier in German, French and Italian in the online Historical Dictionary of Switzerland.
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