Corsier

Geschichte

Corsier is a municipality of the Canton of Geneva, Switzerland.HistoryCorsier is first mentioned in 1297 as Corsiacum. Between 1816-58 Corsier and Anières formed a single municipality.GeographyCorsier has an area, of 2.74km2. Of this area, 1.7km2 or 62.0% is used for agricultural purposes, while 0.11km2 or 4.0% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 0.93km2 or 33.9% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.02km2 or 0.7% is either rivers or lakes and 0.02km2 or 0.7% is unproductive land.Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 25.2% and transportation infrastructure made up 5.8%. while parks, green belts and sports fields made up 1.5%. Out of the forested land, 2.2% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.8% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 46.7% is used for growing crops and 5.8% is pastures, while 9.5% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is flowing water.The municipality is located on the left bank of Lake Geneva.DemographicsCorsier has a population of., 29.1% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of 5.2%. It has changed at a rate of -0.8% due to migration and at a rate of 5.5% due to births and deaths.Most of the population speaks French (1,361 or 80.9%), with English being second most common (106 or 6.3%) and German being third (74 or 4.4%).