Hermance

Geschichte

Hermance is a municipality of the Canton of Geneva, Switzerland.HistoryHermance is first mentioned in 1247 as intra Armentia. In 1271 it was mentioned as Eremencia.GeographyHermance has an area, of 1.44km2. Of this area, 0.83km2 or 57.6% is used for agricultural purposes, while 0.19km2 or 13.2% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 0.42km2 or 29.2% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.02km2 or 1.4% is either rivers or lakes.Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 22.2% and transportation infrastructure made up 3.5%. Power and water infrastructure as well as other special developed areas made up 1.4% of the area while parks, green belts and sports fields made up 1.4%. Out of the forested land, 10.4% of the total land area is heavily forested and 2.8% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 36.8% is used for growing crops and 5.6% is pastures, while 15.3% is used for orchards or vine crops. Of the water in the municipality, 0.7% is in lakes and 0.7% is in rivers and streams.The municipality is located on the left bank of Lake Geneva.The municipality of Hermance consists of the sub-sections or villages of Hermance - Rives-du-Lac, Le Bourg and La Croix-de-Bally.DemographicsHermance has a population of., 28.4% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of 16.5%. It has changed at a rate of 20% due to migration and at a rate of -2% due to births and deaths.Most of the population speaks French (643 or 78.8%), with English being second most common (73 or 8.9%) and German being third (36 or 4.4%). There are 14 people who speak Italian and 1 person who speaks Romansh.