Bevaix

Geschichte

Bevaix is a municipality in the district of Boudry in the canton of Neuchâtel in Switzerland.HistoryBevaix is first mentioned in 998 as in villa Bevacensi. In 1139 it was mentioned as Betuaci.The village of Bevaix is sited in front of a small plateau, near Lake Neuchâtel, on a location showing both Bronze Age and Neolithic settlement and a priory dating to 998. Discovery nearby of several dugout canoes and boats illuminated techniques of shipbuilding in Gallo-Roman times. The village was predominantly agricultural until the building of a railway station in 1860, and the drainage of the surrounding wetlands around 1900, when the area became increasingly residential. Local industry focuses on microtechnology.GeographyBevaix has an area, of 10.8km2. Of this area, 3.68km2 or 34.1% is used for agricultural purposes, while 5.08km2 or 47.1% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 1.97km2 or 18.3% is settled (buildings or roads) and 0.08km2 or 0.7% is unproductive land.Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 10.2% and transportation infrastructure made up 4.3%. Power and water infrastructure as well as other special developed areas made up 2.3% of the area Out of the forested land, 45.6% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.5% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 18.7% is used for growing crops and 8.2% is pastures, while 5.8% is used for orchards or vine crops and 1.4% is used for alpine pastures.