La Tène
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former municipality in Laténa in the canton of Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Key facts
- Country
- Switzerland
- Canton
- Neuchâtel
- Total
- 5.44 km (2.10 sq mi)
- Elevation
- 450 m (1,480 ft)
- Density
- 951/km (2,460/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
- Iso 3166 code
- CH-NE
- Surrounded by
- Cudrefin (VD), Gampelen (BE), Ins (BE), Saint-Blaise , Thielle-Wavre
- Website
- http://www.commune-la-tene.ch/
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
La Tène ( French: [la tɛn]; Arpitan: La Tena) is a former municipality in the Swiss canton of Neuchâtel. On 1 January 2009, the former municipalities of Marin-Epagnier and Thielle-Wavre merged to form the new municipality of La Tène. On 1 January 2025 the former municipalities of Enges, Hauterive, Saint-Blaise and La Tène merged into the new municipality of Laténa.
The La Tène toponym was originally applied to the lakeside area near Epagnier, notable as the eponymous site of the Iron Age archaeological of the La Tène culture.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “La Tène” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.