RenéFelber was a Swiss politician. He was a member of the Swiss Federal Council from 1987 to 1993. In 1992,he served as the President of Switzerland.
The Republic and Canton of Neuchâtel is a mostly French-speaking canton in western Switzerland. In 2007,its population was 169,782,of whom 39,654 were foreigners. The capital is Neuchâtel.
The following are the 27 municipalities of the canton of Neuchâtel,as of 2021.
TissotSA is a luxury Swiss watch brand owned by the Swatch Group. The company was founded in Le Locle,Switzerland by Charles-Félicien Tissot and his son,Charles-Émile Tissot,in 1853.
La Chaux-de-Fonds is a Swiss city in the canton of Neuchâtel. It is located in the Jura mountains at an altitude of 1000 m,a few kilometres south of the French border. After Geneva,Lausanne and Fribourg it is the fourth largest city in the Romandie,the French-speaking part of the country,with a population of 36,915.
Le Locle is a municipality in the Canton of Neuchâtel in Switzerland.
The International Museum of Horology,French:Musée international d'horlogerie,is a horological museum in La Chaux-de-Fonds,Switzerland. It is owned and operated by the city of La Chaux-de-Fonds.
The Watch Museum of Le Locle is a municipal museum specializing in horology,located in Le Locle,Canton of Neuchâtel,Switzerland. It is open to the public.
La Chaux-de-Fonds railway station serves the municipality of La Chaux-de-Fonds,in the canton of Neuchâtel,Switzerland.
Neuchâtel railway station serves the municipality of Neuchâtel,the capital city of the canton of Neuchâtel,Switzerland. Opened in 1857,it is owned and operated by SBB-CFF-FFS.
Auguste Jaccard was a Swiss geologist and paleontologist. His scientific research,for the most part,was associated with the Jura Mountains.
The Musée des beaux-arts du Locle,located in the canton of Neuchâtel in the Switzerland,organizes temporary exhibitions three times a year. Showcasing prints,photographs,installations and paintings,solo and thematic exhibitions take place in a 2,000 m2 space. These exhibitions of Swiss and international art,past and present,highlight both emerging and established artists. Open to all techniques and mixed media in particular,MBAL also organises the Triennale de l'art imprimécontemporain.
The Neuchâtel–Le Locle-Col-des-Roches railway is a single-track standard-gauge line of the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB).
H. Moser &Cie. is a trademark of Moser Schaffhausen AG, a Swiss luxury watch manufacturer. The original H. Moser &Cie. was founded by independent watchmaker Heinrich Moser in St. Petersburg,Russia in 1828. Notable early clients of H. Moser &Cie. included Russian princes and members of the Russian Imperial Court;Vladimir Lenin also owned a Moser watch. After Moser died in 1874,the company was sold,and its business in Russia was expropriated in 1918 due to the October Revolution.
Le Crêt-du-Locle railway station is a railway station in the municipality of La Chaux-de-Fonds,in the Swiss canton of Neuchâtel. It is an intermediate stop on the standard gauge Neuchâtel–Le Locle-Col-des-Roches line of Swiss Federal Railways.
Le Locle railway station is a railway station in the municipality of Le Locle,in the Swiss canton of Neuchâtel. It is located at the junction of the standard gauge Neuchâtel–Le Locle-Col-des-Roches line of Swiss Federal Railways and the 1,000 mm gauge Le Locle–Les Brenets line of Transports publics neuchâtelois.
Le Locle-Col-des-Roches railway station is a railway station in the municipality of Le Locle,in the Swiss canton of Neuchâtel. It is located at the junction of the standard gauge Neuchâtel–Le Locle-Col-des-Roches line of Swiss Federal Railways and the Besançon–Le Locle line of SNCF. The station is located just short of the border between France and Switzerland and is served by French trains only.
The Le Locle–Les Brenets line is a 1,000 mm railway line in the canton of Neuchâtel in Switzerland. It runs 4.1 kilometres (2.5 mi) from Le Locle,where it has a cross-platform interchange with the standard gauge Neuchâtel–Le Locle-Col-des-Roches line of Swiss Federal Railways,to Les Brenets. The line was originally built by the Régional des Brenets and opened on 1 September 1890. Today,it is operated by the Transports publics Neuchâtelois. On 24 July 2020,the canton of Neuchâtel announced the line will closed in 2025,to be replaced by an electric bus service that will use the Petits-Monts railway tunnel.
The Besançon–Le Locle railway line is a standard gauge railway line in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comtéin France. A small section of the line extends into the canton of Neuchâtel in Switzerland. It runs 75.9 kilometres (47.2 mi) from a junction with the Neuchâtel–Le Locle-Col-des-Roches line at Le Locle-Col-des-Roches west to Besançon-Viotte,where it meets two other lines. SNCF owns and operates the line.
