Les Verrières

Geschichte

Les Verrières is a municipality in the district of Val-de-Travers in the canton of Neuchâtel in Switzerland.HistoryLes Verrières is first mentioned in 1344 as villa de Verreriis. Jt was here that General Charles-Denis Bourbaki crossed the Swiss border with the remnants of the Armée de l'Est during the Franco-Prussian War (1870–71).GeographyLes Verrières has an area, of 28.7km2. Of this area, 13.18km2 or 46.0% is used for agricultural purposes, while 14.53km2 or 50.7% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 0.95km2 or 3.3% is settled (buildings or roads) and 0.12km2 or 0.4% is unproductive land.Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 1.3% and transportation infrastructure made up 1.6%. Out of the forested land, 46.4% of the total land area is heavily forested and 4.2% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 1.2% is used for growing crops and 22.8% is pastures and 22.0% is used for alpine pastures.The municipality is located in the Val-de-Travers district. The main settlement is a linear village that is about 3km long and consists of the villages of Cret, Belle Perche, Grand Bourgeau, Croix-Blanche and Meudon. Outside the main village, there are the hamlets of Cernets and Mont-des-Verrières and scattered settlements over an elevation of 910to above sea level.