Lignières (Neuchâtel)

History

The first occupations of the territory ligniérois left us few things: stones with Cup S as well as a Axe of the Bronze Age. The first imposing vestige of a human installation on this Jurassic plate located at 800 m of altitude, is without question the Roman villa , occupied as of the 2nd century. The interpretation of the excavations which were made there in 1907 stresses the importance of this building located near Vy d' Etraz.

The documented history begins with a privilege of the pope Alexandre III gone back to 1179. One that it is a forgery, but can one knows retain this document as being the first certificate of Lignières? It is in any case the beginning of the conflicts which will oppose the counts de Neuchâtel and the bishops of Basle and which will find a solution stable only in the middle of the 14th century. One leads to the installation of a division of the capacities and thus of the exercise of justice on the jurisdiction of Lignières, where Bern will also find its share. This durable institutional tangle will end only with the Congrès of Vienna which allots all the rights on the village to the principality of Neuchâtel in 1815. A last trace: the franc-freehold, is an exempted band of territory of the transfer taxes, will be abolished only in the last years of the 20th century.

The influence of Bern determined the life of the parish for a long time - the liturgy of Lignières is purely neuchâteloise only since 1844 -, in particular in its relations with Landeron on which the village depended. The Reform, after a visit of Guillaume Farel, in 1543, will be adopted tardily, in 1563, but it will be necessary to still await about fifty years so that the village becomes a parish. It is as in Landeron as will be held the lawsuits of Sorcellerie in first half of the 17th century. So of such lawsuits take place a little everywhere in the county at that time, the case of Lignières makes conspicuous itself by the fact that catholics of Landeron consider the behaviors presumedly diabolic of the Protestants ligniérois!

The demographic development characterizes the 19th century. The composition and the structure of the population change: the Community structure tends to be erased with the profit of more individualized management of the grounds and the landscape changes. The modernization started at the XIXe century finishes at the next century: one endeavors to control the problems of water and the construction of the road of skirting, while serving the Plateau of Sharp, will make it possible to preserve at the village its character. During the Second world war, the Poles of the camps of work are occupied with land improvements like with the earthwork of frontage roads. But it is the fall of a German bomber, on June 1st, 1940, which creates the event.

Second half of the 20th century is marked by construction of new a college like by the modification of the social structure: there are less and less peasants with Lignières, whereas the Tourisme related to the leisures develops to with it. The unemployed dig an Olympic swimming pool as of 1938; later, one will add a road racing set to it, a camp-site, a horse-gear. In parallel, of the regular events like the horse show and the désalpe allow to make known the village.

Tourism

Camp-site with swimming pool
Circuit of race
Riding school

Transport

Line of bus Nods - Lignières - Landeron - Neuveville
Line of bus Saint-Blaise - Enges - Lignières
Unloading dock of the boats connecting the Lake Bienne to that of Neuchâtel
Highway A5, Left 19 or 20 (Landeron)

Formation

the training center and the road racing set of the Swiss Touring Club

Activities

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