Neuchatel

Neuchatel is a town, a municipality, and the capital of the Swiss canton of Neuchatel on Lake. The city has about 34,000 population. The town is on occasion referred to historically by means of the German name. About this sound Neuenburg, which has the same meaning. It become originally part of the Holy Roman Empire and later below Prussian manage from 1707 until 1848. The legit language of Neuchatel is French. Neuchatel is a pilot of the Council of Europe and the European Commission Intercultural Cities programme.

The oldest traces of human beings inside the municipal region are the stays of a Magdalenian looking camp, which turned into dated to 13,000 BC. It turned into found in 1990 for the duration of creation of the A5 motorway at Monruz. The web page was approximately 5 m beneath the principle street. Around the fire pits carved flints and bones have been observed. In addition to the flint and bone artifacts 3 tiny jewelry from lignite had been determined. The jewelry can also have served as symbols of fertility and represent the oldest known art in Switzerland. This first camp changed into utilized by Cro-Magnons to seek horse and reindeer within the place. Azilian hunters had a camp on the same site at about 11,000 BC. Since the weather had modified, their prey become now deer and wild boar.