Chêne-Bougeries
Chêne-Bougeries | |
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State : | Switzerland |
Canton : | Geneva (GE) |
District : | No district division |
BFS no. : | 6612 |
Postal code : | 1224 |
Coordinates : | 503 239 / 117102 |
Height : | 423 m above sea level M. |
Height range : | 382-430 m above sea level M. |
Area : | 4.14 km² |
Residents: | 12,215 (December 31, 2018) |
Population density : | 2950 inhabitants per km² |
Proportion of foreigners : (residents without citizenship ) |
34.0% (December 31, 2018) |
Website: | www.chene-bougeries.ch |
Chêne-Bougeries |
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Location of the municipality | |
Chêne-Bougeries is a municipality in the canton of Geneva in Switzerland .
geography
The rural community is located to the left of Lake Geneva and to the right of the Seymaz and includes the districts of Grange-Canal, Malagnou, Le Vallon, La Pommière and Conches as well as the La Gradelle and La Montagne apartment blocks built at the end of the 20th century.
history
In 1536 the hamlet of Chêne was occupied by the Bernese. In 1564 Chêne stayed near Geneva. With the Treaty of Turin in 1754, the left bank of the Seymaz came to Savoy , while the right bank remained at Geneva and thus reformed. Chêne was thus divided into the Geneva Chêne-Bougeries and the Savoy Chêne-Bourg .
The community was mentioned around 1270 as Quercus and around 1801 as Chêne-les-Bougeries .
population
Population development | ||||||||||
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year | 1815 | 1850 | 1900 | 1950 | 1970 | 2000 | 2010 | 2012 | 2014 | 2017 |
Residents | 728 | 1041 | 2131 | 4339 | 8670 | 9759 | 10400 | 10530 | 11105 | 11669 |
politics
Legislative - Local Council
The legislative power is exercised by the municipal council (conseil municipal) . It has 27 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 above shows the distribution of seats after the last municipal elections in March 2020.
Attractions
Personalities
- The Reformed theologian and Bible translator Louis Segond (1810–1885) worked as a pastor in Chêne-Bougeries for 24 years .
- Horace Bénédict de Saussure , born on February 17, 1740 in Chêne-Bougeries in the district of Conches († January 22, 1799 in Geneva), was an important Swiss naturalist, mountaineer and inventor.
- The French trumpeter Erik Truffaz was born here on April 3, 1960.
literature
- Christiane Genequand: Chêne-Bougeries. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . 2005 .
Web links
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).