Corcelles-Cormondrèche

History

Corcelles-Cormondrèche is first mentioned in 1092 as Curcellis. Around 1220 it was mentioned as Cormundreschi.

Geography

The former municipality is situated about 5 km west of Neuchâtel. Corcelles-Cormondrèche had an area, , of . Of this area, or 30.7% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 42.8% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 26.3% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.2% is either rivers or lakes. Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 1.4% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 17.5% and transportation infrastructure made up 3.5%. Power and water infrastructure as well as other special developed areas made up 2.9% of the area Out of the forested land, 41.4% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.4% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 16.7% is used for growing crops and 9.7% is pastures, while 4.3% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is flowing water. It consists of the villages of Corcelles and Cormondrèche and the Serroue forest clearing which contains a number of individual houses.

Most-observed species

• European roe deer

  Capreolus capreolus (Linnaeus, 1758) · Mammalia
  9,394
• red fox

  Vulpes vulpes (Linnaeus, 1758) · Mammalia
  6,243
• Meadow Brown

  Maniola jurtina (Linnaeus, 1758) · Insecta
  5,224
• Carrion Crow

  Corvus corone Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  4,917
• European hare

  Lepus europaeus Pallas, 1778 · Mammalia
  4,834
• Small Tortoiseshell

  Aglais urticae (Linnaeus, 1758) · Insecta
  4,176
• Eurasian Blackbird

  Turdus merula Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  3,777
• Yellow-legged Gull

  Larus michahellis J.F.Naumann, 1840 · Aves
  3,440

Most recent

• M 4.1 — 2025-07-21
  4 km E of Frutigen, Switzerland
• M 4.4 — 2023-03-22
  1 km NW of Pont-de-Roide, France
• M 3.9 — 2022-09-10
  1 km WSW of Zimmersheim, France
• M 4.1 — 2021-12-24
  2 km WSW of Blamont, France
• M 3.1 — 2018-05-04
  2 km W of Schliengen, Germany
• M 4.1 — 2017-07-01
  7 km E of Châtel-Saint-Denis, Switzerland