Castle of Neuchâtel

The castle of Neuchâtel is located on a rocky outcrop at the center of the town of Neuchâtel, chief town of the canton éponyme, in Suisse.

It is next to the collegial and overhangs the city. One reaches it since the downtown area by the street of the Castle.

The first elements built on the hill probably dates from the Romans (see the bottom of the Tower of the Prisons). The castle is inhabited at the beginning of the second millenium by Fenis initially (until 1395), then Freiburg, Hochberg then finally of Orleans-Hochberg before Neuchâtel does not choose Prussia as Master in 1708.

Each family makes evolve/move the castle according to her needs, increasing it, changing the church… to see plane on the left.

The aspect of the city changes brutally in 1843 when Seyon (the river which separated the hill from the side of the Jura and crossed the city) is deviated.

The Prussians are driven out castle at the time of the revolution of March 1st, 1848. It shelters the cantonal government today neuchâtelois.

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Sources

Frederic de Chambrier, History of Neuchâtel and Valangin until the advent of the House of Prussia, Neuchâtel, Printing works of Charles Attinger, 1840 (detailed history of the city on 500 pages).
Frederic Dubois de Montpéreux, Antiquities of Neuchâtel, Works posthumous, 1855 (a short history followed by about thirty boards).
Jean Courvoisier, Monuments of art and history of the canton of Neuchâtel , volume I the Town of Neuchâtel , Basle, édtions Birkhauser, 1955 (a description and a history of about thirty pages).

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Article detailed and picturesque on the castle of Neuchâtel

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