La Chaux-de-Fonds District
La Chaux-de-Fonds District was one of the six districts of the canton of Neuchâtel, Switzerland, until the district level was eliminated on 1 January 2018. The district capital was the town of La Chaux-de-Fonds. It had a population of 39,796.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: district of the canton of Neuchâtel with 39,800 residents
- Description: former district in Switzerland; dissolved 1 January 2018
- Also known as: “District de la Chaux-de-Fonds”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Centre de documentation et d’étude sur la langue internationale and Villa Jeanneret-Perret.
Centre de documentation et d’étude sur la langue internationale
Library
Photo: DidiWeidmann, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Centre de documentation et d'étude sur la langue internationale in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, was founded in 1967 by Claude Gacond. It is the main branch of the city's library and contains more than 20,000 bibliographic units.
Villa Jeanneret-Perret
Photo: Chrisaliv, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Villa Jeanneret-Perret is the first independent project by Swiss architect Le Corbusier. Built in 1912 in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Charles-Edouard Jeanneret's hometown, it was designed for his parents.
Villa Fallet
Villa Fallet is a traditional chalet located in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland designed and built by the eighteen-year-old Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, who later became better known as Le Corbusier.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include La Chaux-de-Fonds and Grand’Combe-des-Bois.
La Chaux-de-Fonds
Photo: Zacharie Grossen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
La Chaux-de-Fonds is a city in Switzerland with an impressive heritage of watch making. has been inscribed in the UNESCO World Heritage List as "La Chaux-de-Fonds / Le Locle, Watchmaking Town Planning".
Grand’Combe-des-Bois
Village
Photo: Pmau, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Grand'Combe-des-Bois is a commune in the Doubs department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in eastern France. Grand’Combe-des-Bois is situated 4 km northwest of La Chaux-de-Fonds District.
La Ferrière
Village
La Ferrière is a municipality in the Jura bernois administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. It is located in the French-speaking Bernese Jura. La Ferrière is situated 4½ km northeast of La Chaux-de-Fonds District.
La Chaux-de-Fonds District
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In Other Languages
From Arpitan to Waray—“La Chaux-de-Fonds District” goes by many names.
- Arpitan: “District de La Châls”
- Basque: “La Chaux-de-Fonds barrutia”
- Catalan: “districte de La Chaux-de-Fonds”
- Catalan: “Districte de La Chaux-de-Fonds”
- Cebuano: “La Chaux-de-Fonds District”
- Chinese: “La Chaux-de-Fonds Koān”
- Dutch: “La Chaux-de-Fonds”
- Esperanto: “Distrikto La Chaux-de-Fonds”
- Esperanto: “La Chaux-de-Fonds”
- French: “district de La Chaux-de-Fonds”
- French: “District de la Chaux-de-Fonds”
- French: “District de La Chaux-de-Fonds”
- French: “La Chaux-de-Fonds”
- German: “Bezirk La Chaux-de-Fonds”
- German: “District de La Chaux-de-Fonds”
- Italian: “distretto di La Chaux-de-Fonds”
- Italian: “Distretto di La Chaux-de-Fonds”
- Italian: “La Chaux-de-Fonds”
- Japanese: “ラ・ショー＝ド＝フォン郡”
- Latin: “La Chaux-de-Fonds”
- Lombard: “La Chaux-de-Fonds”
- Min Nan Chinese: “La Chaux-de-Fonds Koān”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Distriktet La Chaux-de-Fonds”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Distriktet La-Chaux-de-Fonds”
- Persian: “بخش لشو دو فوند”
- Portuguese: “Distrito de La Chaux-de-Fonds”
- Russian: “Ла-Шо-де-Фон”
- Spanish: “Distrito de Chaux de Fonds”
- Spanish: “Distrito de Chaux de-Fonds”
- Spanish: “Distrito de Chaux-de-Fonds”
- Spanish: “Distrito de La Chaux de Fonds”
- Spanish: “Distrito de La Chaux de-Fonds”
- Spanish: “Distrito de La Chaux-de-Fonds”
- Swedish: “La Chaux-de-Fonds”
- Swiss German: “Bezirk La Chaux-de-Fonds”
- Tosk Albanian: “Bezirk La Chaux-de-Fonds”
- Venetian: “Distreto de La Chaux-de-Fonds”
- Vietnamese: “La Chaux-de-Fonds”
- Waray (Philippines): “La Chaux-de-Fonds”
Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Swin-Golf Les Bulles and Hôpital neuchâtelois, Site de La Chaux-de-Fonds.
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