Boudry

Boudry is the capital of the district of Boudry inside the canton of Neuchatel in Switzerland. Boudry is first referred to in 1278 as Baudri. There are numerous prehistoric settlements round Boudry. These encompass the neolithic stilt houses on the banks of Lake Neuchatel, the caves of Abri Baume du Four, tumuli of the Hallstatt duration inside the Vallon de Vers and Celtic villages at Les Buchilles. There some of Roman era artifacts and a Burgundian cemetery at Bel-Air by way of the Areuse river. During the Middle Ages it turned into the capital of the seigneurie of Boudry. Until the 14th Century, the hamlets of Pontareuse and Vermondins were part of the seigneurie.

Pontareuse turned into close to the bridge, with which the Roman road of Vy d'Etraz crossed the Areuse, at the same time as Vermondins become on a plateau near the contemporary town of Boudry. In 1282, Pierre de Vaumarcus bought the jurisdiction rights to Girard d'Estavayer. In 1313, his son Rollin offered these rights to depend Rudolph IV of Neuchatel. Two years before, Rudolph IV had seized the Bailiwick of Areuse from Pierre d'Estavayer. Boudry Castle turned into probably built earlier than 1278 by means of the Counts of Neuchatel. So the purchase in 1313 united each of those lands collectively with the castle lands underneath the Counts of Neuchatel.