Vernier
Vernier | |
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State : | Switzerland |
Canton : | Geneva (GE) |
District : | No district division |
BFS no. : | 6643 |
Postal code : | 1214 |
UN / LOCODE : | CH VNR |
Coordinates : | 496 673 / 117 390 |
Height : | 440 m above sea level M. |
Height range : | 369–450 m above sea level M. |
Area : | 7.69 km² |
Residents: | 34,791 (December 31, 2018) |
Population density : | 4524 inhabitants per km² |
Proportion of foreigners : (residents without citizenship ) |
44.3% (December 31, 2018) |
Website: | www.vernier.ch |
Lignon |
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Location of the municipality | |
Vernier is a municipality in the canton of Geneva in Switzerland .
geography
Vernier is located north of the Rhone . The neighboring communities are Satigny , Meyrin , Le Grand-Saconnex and Geneva .
The two tallest buildings in the canton and the longest residential building in Europe, which is 1060 meters long, are located in the Le Lignon district . Originally created in the 1960s for 10,000 people, around 5,500 people still live there today. A second residential complex, which today has 5700 inhabitants, is hardly smaller, is Les Avanchets .
In Châtelaine, some United Nations organizations are housed in the Maison Internationale de l'Environnement (MIE; French for International Environment House ), such as the headquarters of the United Nations Institute of Education and Research (UNITAR) , the department of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the Europe Department of the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) and other organizations primarily concerned with environmental protection.
Vernier is connected to the Geneva public transport network by the Geneva trolleybus and the Geneva tram . The Balexert shopping center is of great importance .
history
Vernier belonged to France until 1815 .
population
Population development | ||||||||||||
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year | 1816 | 1850 | 1900 | 1950 | 1960 | 1970 | 2000 | 2010 | 2012 | 2014 | 2015 | 2017 |
Residents | 566 | 767 | 1280 | 3906 | 8045 | 22230 | 29559 | 32844 | 33744 | 34477 | 34655 | 35408 |
Vernier is the second largest city in the canton of Geneva. 45% of all residents are foreign nationals. 61% of all residents have a foreign passport (47% foreigners plus 14% dual citizens). 13% of the Swiss are naturalized. Of the foreigners, 12% are of Portuguese and 12% of Italian origin. 38% of the residents there are Swiss citizens by birth.
politics
Legislative - Local Council
The legislative power is exercised by the municipal council (conseil municipal) . It has 37 seats and is elected directly by the people every five years using proportional representation with a 7 percent hurdle. The municipal council determines the city budget and votes on submissions from the city government (conseil administratif) . He can also launch initiatives himself. The graphic on the left shows the distribution of seats after the last municipal elections in March 2020.
National Council elections
In the 2019 Swiss parliamentary elections, the share of the vote in Vernier was: Greens 21.3%, SP 21.1%, SVP 15.7%, MCG 11.3%, FDP 9.6%, Sol / POP 7.3%, CVP 5.9%, glp 3.7%, EVP 1.1%.
Attractions
Personalities
Personalities who were born in the parish or who worked there:
- Xavier Givaudan (1867–1966), French entrepreneur
- Léon Givaudan (1875–1936), French perfumer and entrepreneur
- Nelly Buntschu (* 1947), politician (PdA)
- Serge Demierre (* 1956), racing cyclist
literature
- Pierre Pittard: Vernier. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . 2014 .
Web links
- Official website of the municipality of Vernier
- Vernier on elexikon.ch
Individual evidence
- ↑ Permanent and non-permanent resident population by year, canton, district, municipality, population type and gender (permanent resident population). In: bfs. admin.ch . Federal Statistical Office (FSO), August 31, 2019, accessed on December 22, 2019 .
- ↑ Population résidante selon l'origine et le sexe, par commune, depuis 2013 . (XLS, 147 kB) In: ge.ch. Statistical Office of the Canton of Geneva ( Office cantonal de la statistique - OCSTAT), March 7, 2019, accessed on May 2, 2019 (French).
- ↑ Élection des conseils municipaux du 15 mars 2020. Retrieved on March 15, 2020 (French).
- ↑ Federal elections 2019 | opendata.swiss. Retrieved December 20, 2019 .