Cologny

Cologny

State :	Switzerland Switzerland
Canton :	Canton of Geneva Geneva (GE)
District :	No district divisionw
BFS no. :	6617i1 f3 f4
Postal code :	1223
Coordinates :	504 420 / 119116 coordinates: 46 ° 13 '0 " N , 6 ° 12' 0" O ; CH1903: five hundred and four thousand four hundred twenty / 11911646.216685 6.199982 435
Height :	435 m above sea level M.
Height range :	372–490 m above sea level M.
Area :	3.65 km²
Residents:	5574 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	1527 inhabitants per km²
Proportion of foreigners : (residents without citizenship )	35.3% (December 31, 2018)
Website:	www.cologny.ch
View of Lake Geneva from the Bibliotheca Bodmeriana
Location of the municipality
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Cologny [kɔlɔɲi] is a municipality in the canton of Geneva in Switzerland .

The community on the left bank of Lake Geneva includes the village of Cologny and the hamlets of La Belotte and Ruth, among others . Since the end of the 17th century, large numbers of spacious country houses of the Geneva upper class have been built in the community, which still shape the townscape today. The proximity to the city and the integrity of the landscape have repeatedly attracted celebrities from all over the world over the past centuries, including Lord Byron (after whom a viewing platform on the lake is named in the community), Mary Shelley or Connected to John Polidori .

Cologny is the headquarters of the World Economic Forum (WEF) and is generally one of the wealthiest communities in the canton of Geneva and in all of Switzerland.

geography

According to the Federal Statistical Office, the municipality has an area of 3.67 km², of which 78% corresponds to built-up living space, 17% to agricultural area, 4% to forest area and almost 1% to unused area.

The neighboring communities of Cologny are to the north Collonge-Bellerive , northeast Vandœuvres , southeast Chêne-Bougeries and to the south Geneva. The community is divided into the small quarters of Saint-Paul, Stade-de-Frontenex, Rampe-de-Cologny, Cologny-Village, Ruth-Nant d'Argent and Prés-de-la-Gradelle.

The municipality extends along the shores of Lake Geneva.

Historic aerial photo by Werner Friedli from 1966

history

In 1208 the community is mentioned under the name of Colognier . In the hamlet of La Belotte you will find settlements on the lake shore from the Neolithic Age . The municipality's coat of arms commemorates the landing of the federal fleet on June 1, 1814 on the beach occupied by the French. Ships used to be moored to such pillars.

Since the 17th and 18th centuries, French publishing houses were repeatedly founded in Cologny, which were able to ensure that books that would be subject to censorship in the French state could be published freely.

With the steady development of Geneva, Cologny increasingly staged itself as the preferred residential area of the urban upper class, which began to build spacious country houses on a large scale. The most famous example is the Villa Diodati , in which Lord Byron, Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley, among others, spent the summer of 1816. Due to the bad weather that year, the guests of the villa enjoyed themselves telling horror stories to each other. In this context, the works Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, as well as The Vampire by John Polidori were created .

Until the second half of the 20th century, the community was largely characterized by agriculture, but today it is mainly classified as a large residential area.

population

Population development
year	1850	1900	1950	2000	2007	2010	2012	2014	2015	2016	2017
Residents	541	773	1339	4697	4936	4870	4830	5098	5500	5461	5502

Attractions

Villa Diodati, inspiration for the novel Frankenstein
Martin Bodmer Foundation
Rose garden of the Martin Bodmer Foundation
Le Manoir cultural center

World Economic Forum headquarters

The Saint-Paul Grange-Canal church.

The Bibliotheca Bodmeriana , a literary museum donated by Martin Bodmer , which has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2015 .

The World Economic Forum (WEF) has its headquarters in Cologny.

traffic

The Geneva trolleybus operated by Transports publics genevois (TPG) runs in Cologny .

Others

Mary Shelley wrote the novel Frankenstein in the Villa Diodati .

The future Federal Councilor Gustave Ador was born in Cologny .

The heroine from Albert Cohen's novel The Lord's Beauty , Ariane Deume, lives with her husband's family at a fictional address in Cologny.

Personalities

Gustave Ador , politician of the Liberal Party of Switzerland , Federal Councilor and President of the ICRC
Jean Alesi , Italian-French racing car driver
Charles Aznavour , Armenian-French chansonnier and actor
Lord Byron , British poet
Patrick Drahi , Israeli-French entrepreneur
Gulnora Karimova , Uzbek politician
Jean-Claude Killy , French ski racer
Dmitri Rybolovlev , Russian entrepreneur
Klaus Schwab , German economist, founder of the World Economic Forum
Gérard Wertheimer , French entrepreneur
Gennadi Nikolajewitsch Timchenko , Russian-Finnish oligarch
Fritz-Aurel Goergen , German industrial manager

literature

Jacques Barrelet: Cologny. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . 2005 .

Web links

Commons : Cologny - collection of images, videos and audio files

Cologny on the ETHorama platform
Official website of the municipality of Cologny
Cologny 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).
↑ Tony Perrottet: Lake Geneva as Shelley and Byron Knew It . In: The New York Times . May 27, 2011, ISSN 0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed March 12, 2018]).
↑ Abécédaire de la fiscalité des communes de Genève . In: tdg.ch/ . ( tdg.ch [accessed on March 13, 2018]).
^ Office fédéral de la statistique: Communes. Retrieved March 13, 2018 (French).
↑ Statistiques cantonales - République et canton de Genève. Retrieved March 13, 2018 (French).
^ A Cologny . In: rts.ch . ( rts.ch [accessed on March 12, 2018]).
↑ A. Casanova, Myriam Poiatti, Th.-A. Hermanès: L'église de Saint-Paul Grange-Canal, Genève. (Swiss Art Guide, No. 696, Series 70). Ed. Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Bern 2001, ISBN 978-3-85782-696-2 .
↑ Bibliotheca Bodmeriana (1916–1971) | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. Retrieved August 28, 2017 .

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