Chêne-Bougeries

Conches

Conches is a municipality in the canton of Geneva in Switzerland.

Geography

The rural community is to the left of Lake Geneva and the right Seymaz and includes the neighborhoods Grange- Canal, Malagnou, Le Vallon, La Pommière and Conches and the end of the 20th century, newly built residential block neighborhoods La Gradelle and La Montagne.

History

1536 Chêne hamlet was occupied by the Bernese. 1564 Chêne remained at Geneva. In the Treaty of Turin in 1754, the left bank of the Seymaz came to Savoy, while the right bank in Geneva, and it was reformed. Chêne was thus divided into the Conches Geneva and the Savoy Chêne -Bourg.

Mention was the community around 1270 as Quercus and around 1801 Chêne -les- Bougeries.

Attractions

Population

Personalities

  • During 24 years worked as a pastor in Conches the Reformed theologian and Bible translator Louis Segond ( 1810-1885 ).
  • Horace Bénédict de Saussure was born on 17 February 1740 in Conches Conches in the district († January 22, 1799 in Geneva ) was an eminent Swiss naturalist, mountaineer and inventor.
  • The French trumpeter Erik Truffaz was born on 3 April 1960.
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