Couvet

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Couvet
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Couvet
Coordinates: 46°55′N6°38′E / 46.917°N 6.633°E / 46.917; 6.633
Country Switzerland
Canton Neuchâtel
District Val-de-Travers
Area
  Total16.41 km2 (6.34 sq mi)
Elevation
740 m (2,430 ft)
Population
 (December 2007)
  Total2,755
  Density170/km2 (430/sq mi)
Time zone UTC+01:00 (Central European Time)
  Summer (DST) UTC+02:00 (Central European Summer Time)
Postal code(s)
2108
SFOS number 6505
Surrounded by Boveresse, Môtiers, Travers
Website couvet.ne.ch
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Couvet 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]

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It is claimed that Couvet was the birthplace of absinthe at the end of the 18th century and it is now the home of La Clandestine Absinthe. It was also the home to Edouard Dubied & Co, a factory that used to make sewing machines.

Aerial view (1950) ETH-BIB-Couvet-LBS H1-013738.tif
Aerial view (1950)

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References

  1. Amtliches Gemeindeverzeichnis der Schweiz published by the Swiss Federal Statistical Office (in German) accessed 14 January 2010