Perreux
Origin of the name Perreux
Name origin: not explained by the sources consulted.
Founding of Perreux
Perreux is one of the small localities of the municipality of Boudry. Its known history is that of the cantonal institution established there in 1894: the cantonal hospital for incurables, later a psychiatric hospital, created by the State of Neuchâtel. In particular, it allowed the Préfargier asylum to discharge patients considered incurable. The site now houses the Centre neuchâtelois de psychiatrie and, since 2014, a federal asylum centre. The sources consulted give neither the origin of the hamlet nor its founder.
History of Perreux
1894. Establishment at Perreux of the cantonal hospital for incurables (hospice), later a psychiatric hospital.
1897. A study of psychiatric collections dates the opening of the Perreux care institution, the second in the canton, which allowed Préfargier to discharge patients considered incurable, to 1897 (date to be cross-checked against 1894).
1908-1913. The physician Georges Sandoz directs the Perreux hospice before taking over the Préfargier asylum.
1978. On 14 March the Grand Council adopts the law on the cantonal psychiatric hospital of Perreux sur Boudry: the institution, founded in 1894, depends on the State and treats people with psychiatric, neuropsychiatric or chronic neurological illnesses.
2014. On 1 January the lease of a federal asylum centre begins for the accommodation area, on the site occupied by the Centre neuchâtelois de psychiatrie; the office area follows on 1 January 2017.
2017. The Confederation's sectoral plan for asylum (20 December 2017) provides for expanding the Perreux centre to 480 beds, with about 180 workplaces; the canton remains the landowner.
2018. The archives of the Perreux site of the Centre neuchâtelois de psychiatrie are transferred to the State Archives of Neuchâtel.
Historic sites in Perreux
Perreux psychiatric site. Cantonal institution for incurables founded in 1894, which became the cantonal psychiatric hospital of Perreux and then a site of the Centre neuchâtelois de psychiatrie.
Federal asylum centre. Established since 2014 on part of the cantonal site of Perreux.
Sources
- Dictionnaire historique de la Suisse, « Boudry » (Germain Hausmann)
- Recueil systématique de la législation neuchâteloise, « Loi sur l'Hôpital psychiatrique cantonal de Perreux sur Boudry » du 14 mars 1978 (RSN 802.310)
- Zürcher Hochschule der Künste, projet « Bewahren besonderer Kulturgüter », inventaire Neuchâtel (Préfargier et Perreux)
- Société neuchâteloise de généalogie, « Biograne (Biographies neuchâteloises) », vol. 6 (Sac-Zys), notice Georges Sandoz
- Secrétariat d'État aux migrations, plan sectoriel Asile, fiche d'objet « Boudry, Perreux » (20 décembre 2017)
- Commune de Boudry, « Géographie »
- État de Neuchâtel, arrêté du 4 février 2026 homologuant le recensement cantonal de la population au 31 décembre 2025
- geo.admin.ch, service de recherche de lieux (swisstopo)
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