Fleurier

Fleurier
Coat of arms of Fleurier
Location of Fleurier
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Fleurier is located in Switzerland
Fleurier
Fleurier
Fleurier is located in Canton of Neuchâtel
Fleurier
Fleurier
Coordinates: 46°54′N 6°35′E / 46.900°N 6.583°E / 46.900; 6.583
CountrySwitzerland
CantonNeuchâtel
DistrictVal-de-Travers
Area
 • Total
7.74 km2 (2.99 sq mi)
Elevation
741 m (2,431 ft)
Population
 (December 2007)
 • Total
3,518
 • 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
ISO 3166 codeCH-NE
Surrounded byBoveresse, Buttes, Fontaines-sur-Grandson (VD), Mauborget (VD), Môtiers, Romairon (VD), Saint-Sulpice
Websitefleurier.ne.ch
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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 the administrative district of Val-de-Travers.[1]

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

Aerial view from 500 m by Walter Mittelholzer (1931)
  1. ^ Amtliches Gemeindeverzeichnis der Schweiz published by the Swiss Federal Statistical Office (in German) accessed 14 January 2010