Sailor-Epagnier

See also: Marine

Sailor-Epagnier is one of the communes of the Canton of Neuchâtel. It is located at the north-eastern point of the Neuchâtel Lake.

At the linguistic border of the French and German , and profiting from a crossing of highways, it attracted a great number of administrative offices and workshops of the precision tool industry, mainly of the micro mechanics, electronic and Horlogerie and shelters some known clock making marks, as well as a big number of supermarkets.

Industry

Clock making manufactures

  • Bertolucci
  • Waltham

Micro-electronics

  • EM Microelectronic-Sailor of the Swatch Group site
    • Specialist in the production in semiconductors with low fuel consumption

Tourism

  • Camp-site and beach of " Tène"

Sports

  • sporting Center for tennis, squash, badmninton and minigolf

Hospital

  • the psychiatric hospital of Préfargier

Transport

Toponymy

The name of anybody Latin Marius followed by the Latin toponymic suffix - anum would be at the origin of the toponym of Sailor. The Latin suffix - anum in the North of the Alps is an index of the establishment of people of Latin language beside a Celtic population in full romanisation.

Epagnier reflects a formation galloromaine name of anybody Latin Spanius or more probably Hispanius, name ethnic employee like nickname. This name is followed Celtic suffix akos/-acum. This toponym belongs to the important layer of the place names formed starting from a name of anybody Latin follow-up of the Celtic suffix - akos/-acum. First certificates 1179 (Marens and Espaniei).

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