Président du Conseil communal (list) Denis de la Reussille (as of March 2014)
• Parliament
Conseil général with 41 members
Area
[1]
• Total
23.14 km2 (8.93 sq mi)
Elevation
945 m (3,100 ft)
Population
(31 December 2018)[2]
• Total
10,216
• Density
440/km2 (1,100/sq mi)
Time zone
UTC+01:00 (Central European Time)
• Summer (DST)
UTC+02:00 (Central European Summer Time)
Postal code(s)
2400
SFOS number
6436
ISO 3166 code
CH-NE
Surrounded by
La Chaux-de-Fonds, La Chaux-du-Milieu, La Sagne, Le Cerneux-Péquignot, Les Brenets, Les Planchettes, Les Ponts-de-Martel, Villers-le-Lac (FR-25)
Website
www.lelocle.ch SFSO statistics
UNESCO World Heritage Site
UNESCO World Heritage Site
Part of
La Chaux-de-Fonds / Le Locle, Watchmaking Town Planning
Criteria
Cultural: (iv)
Reference
1302-002
Inscription
2009 (33rd Session)
Area
70.2 ha (173 acres)
Buffer zone
1,620.2 ha (4,004 acres)
Le Locle (French pronunciation:[ləlɔkl]; German: Luggli) is a municipality in the Canton of Neuchâtel in Switzerland.
It is situated in the Jura Mountains, a few kilometers from the city of La Chaux-de-Fonds.
It is the third smallest city in Switzerland (in Switzerland a place needs more than 10,000 inhabitants to be considered a city).
Le Locle is known as a center of Swiss watchmaking, even cited as the birthplace of the industry, with roots dating back to the 1600s.[3] The municipality has been home to manufactures such as Favre-Leuba, Mido, Zodiac, Tissot, Ulysse Nardin, Zenith, Montblanc, Certina as well as Universal Genève, before the latter company relocated to Geneva. The town's history in watchmaking is documented at one of the world's premier horological museums, the Musée d'Horlogerie du Locle, Monts Castle, located in a 19th-century country manor on a hill north of the city.[4] Restored historic underground mills (grainmill, oilmill, sawmill) can be seen in a cave located about one kilometer (0.6 miles) west of the city center.[5]
The name of the town derives from the word for lake or trou d'eau.
^ ab"Arealstatistik Standard - Gemeinden nach 4 Hauptbereichen". Federal Statistical Office. Retrieved 13 January 2019.
^"Ständige Wohnbevölkerung nach Staatsangehörigkeitskategorie Geschlecht und Gemeinde; Provisorische Jahresergebnisse; 2018". Federal Statistical Office. 9 April 2019. Retrieved 11 April 2019.
^Teller, Matthew (May 17, 2010). The Rough Guide to Switzerland. Rough Guides. ISBN 978-1-84836-471-4.
^Watchmaking museum Archived 2008-06-18 at the Wayback Machine (in French)
LeLocle (French pronunciation: [lə lɔkl]; German: Luggli) is a municipality in the Canton of Neuchâtel in Switzerland. It is situated in the Jura Mountains...
The Watch Museum of LeLocle (French: Musée d'Horlogerie du Locle) is a municipal museum specializing in horology, located in LeLocle, Canton of Neuchâtel...
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"preparatory rolling mill" founded in 1852 by Martin de Pury & Cie in LeLocle. This specialized in smelting gold and manufacturing watch cases. In 1864...
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