Fleurier

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 the administrative district of Val-de-Travers.[1]

Fleurier
Former municipality
Coat of arms of Fleurier
Coat of arms
Location of Fleurier
Fleurier is located in Switzerland
Fleurier
Fleurier
Fleurier is located in Canton of Neuchâtel
Fleurier
Fleurier
Coordinates: 46°54′N 6°35′E
CountrySwitzerland
CantonNeuchâtel
DistrictVal-de-Travers
Area
 • Total7.74 km2 (2.99 sq mi)
Elevation
741 m (2,431 ft)
Population
 (December 2007)
 • Total3,518
 • Density450/km2 (1,200/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (Central European Time)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (Central European Summer Time)
Postal code(s)
2114
SFOS number6506
Surrounded byBoveresse, Buttes, Fontaines-sur-Grandson (VD), Mauborget (VD), Môtiers, Romairon (VD), Saint-Sulpice
Websitefleurier.ne.ch
SFSO statistics

The Nobel laureates, physicist Charles Édouard Guillaume and pharmacologist Daniel Bovet, both originated from Fleurier.

Aerial view from 500 m by Walter Mittelholzer (1931)

Watch manufacturing

Fleurier is also home to a few watch manufactures such as Parmigiani Fleurier and Bovet Fleurier. Vaucher Manufacture Fleurier, a company specialising in movements which are then purchased for use by other manufactures, is also based in this area. Also located nearby is the second facility for Chopard, which has its headquarters in Meyrin, Geneva. This facility works mainly on L.U.Chopard watches and works closely with the other manufactures of the area to ensure quality. Fleurier Ebauches SA, a subsidiary of the Chopard Group, is also located nearby. This will produce movements both for Chopard watches and other manufactures too. Foundation Qualité Fleurier is based in the town hall, it provides testing services for the watchmakers of Fleurier and regularly awards watches that meet its criteria. Chopard watches are the most commonly tested, although some complications are awarded the seal such as the L.U.Chopard Triple Certification Tourbillon. The first watch to have been awarded the COSC Chronometer rating, Geneva Seal as well as the QF (Qualité Fleurier) approval.

Sports

In July 2017 Switzerland national bandy team[2] in Fleurier played its first matches for over a century,[3] namely ever since the 1913 European Bandy Championships in Davos. It was in the form of rink bandy. In September the team debuted in the international tournament in Nymburk, Czech Republic.[4] Federation of International Bandy has decided to make the tournament official.[5]

View of Fleurier from Chapeau de Napoléon

References
  1. Amtliches Gemeindeverzeichnis der Schweiz published by the Swiss Federal Statistical Office (in German) accessed 14 January 2010
  2. Team image
  3. "The adults meet the team of Germany". Archived from the original on 2017-10-17. Retrieved 2017-05-29.
  4. http://www.rusbandy.ru/pix/32911.jpeg
  5. "European Rinkbandy Cup in Nymburk, Czech Republic". Archived from the original on 2018-01-03. Retrieved 2017-10-17.
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