Meinier

Geschichte

Meinier is a municipality of the Canton of Geneva, Switzerland.HistoryMeinier is first mentioned in 1153 as de maniaco. Around 1344 it was mentioned as Meignier.GeographyMeinier has an area, of 6.96km2. Of this area, 5.6km2 or 80.5% is used for agricultural purposes, while 0.23km2 or 3.3% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 1.03km2 or 14.8% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.03km2 or 0.4% is either rivers or lakes and 0.08km2 or 1.1% is unproductive land.Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 6.6% and transportation infrastructure made up 5.3%. while parks, green belts and sports fields made up 1.9%. Out of the forested land, 1.7% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.6% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 57.8% is used for growing crops and 5.7% is pastures, while 17.0% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is in lakes.The municipality is located on the left bank of Lake Geneva. It consists of the hamlets of Meinier, Carre d'Amont, Carre d'Aval (Le Carre), Compois, Essert and Corsinge. The municipality of Meinier consists of the sub-sections or villages of Meinier - Pallanterie, Meinier - Essert, Meinier - village, Covéry, Corsinge, Compois, Carre-d'Aval and Carre-d'Amont.DemographicsMeinier has a population of., 18.8% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of 8.6%. It has changed at a rate of 1.5% due to migration and at a rate of 6.2% due to births and deaths.Most of the population speaks French (1,461 or 86.1%), with English being second most common (68 or 4.0%) and German being third (62 or 3.7%). There are 24 people who speak Italian and 2 people who speak Romansh.