Ville-la-Grand
Ville- la-Grand is a commune in the French department of Haute- Savoie department in the Rhône-Alpes region.
Geography
Ville- la- Grand is located at 444 m above sea level. M., about 1 km northeast of Annemasse and 8 km east of the city of Geneva (air line). The village extends into the Talniederung of Foron, on the outskirts of Annemasse, near the border with Switzerland.
The area of 4.49 km ² municipal area includes a section at the bottom Arve Valley. The area is crossed from east to west from Foron (tributary of the Arve ) in a valley that has a 300 m wide flat valley floor and usually about 30 m is cut into the plateau around. At Ville- la-Grand Bach steps out into the plane of the Lake Geneva basin and reflects here the French-Swiss border. To the east of the municipality floor extends to the plateau east of Annemasse. Here is 520 m above sea level. M. reached the highest elevation of Ville- la -Grand.
At Ville- la-Grand next to the old village include many new residential and commercial districts as well as the settlement Cornières (435 m above sea level. M. ) west of the station area and the hamlet Cret (460 m above sea level. M. ) on the northern slope of the valley of the Foron. Neighboring municipalities of Ville- la-Grand are Juvigny and Cranves-Sales in the East, in the south Annemasse, Ambilly in the west and the Swiss villages Puplinge and Cara in the north.
History
The territory of Ville- la-Grand was already inhabited during the Roman period. Here was the Roman farm villa magna, which gave the place its present name. In the Middle Ages Ville- la-Grand was the center of a small rule. As the place in the border area of the dominions of the Counts of Geneva and Savoy was, he changed hands several times. During the conquest campaign of Berner ( 1536) and during the Savoyerkrieges ( 1592), the village was affected.
Formerly belonged to the municipality of Puplinge, Cara and Juvigny. The latter was in 1795 independently while Puplinge and Cara in 1816 came to the Swiss canton of Geneva. Another area of change was made in 1883, when the area was allocated to the station of the municipality Annemasse.
Attractions
The church of Saint - Mammes, originally built in Romanesque style, was given its present form at conversions in the 19th century. From the early 18th century, the present building dates back to the Château de Marsaz.
Population
With 8083 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2011) Ville- la-Grand is one of the larger towns in the Haute-Savoie region. Significant growth rates with respect to the number of inhabitants were recorded mainly during the 1960s and 1980s. Today, the settlement area is completely conjoined with that of Annemasse and Ambilly.
Economy and infrastructure
Ville- la-Grand was to the 20th century, a predominantly coined by farming village. The municipality is located in the wine region Savoie. White wines from the grape Altesse ( locally called roussette ) may be marketed under the protected designation of origin roussette de Savoie. For white wines, red wines and other grape varieties, the AOC Vin de Savoie applies.
Since the 1950s, it gradually developed into a residential suburb of Annemasse and Geneva. Today there are numerous companies of small and medium industries, as well as construction and trading companies and firms in the service sector. Along the main road to Thonon -les- Bains in 1980 was an extensive commercial and industrial zone.
Although the village is off the major thoroughfares, but is a good infrastructure. It is located on a link road that leads from Annemasse after Cara. The nearest links to the A40 motorway is located at a distance of about 3 km. On the western border of the village station of Annemasse is located with train service to Genève- Eaux- Vives, Thonon -les- Bains, Annecy, Bellegarde.