Chancy
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| canton: | Geneva |
| district: | (Geneva does not know districts) |
| BFS NR.: | 6611 |
| postal code: | 1284 |
| coordinates: | 46° 9 ' n. Break. 5° 58 ' o. L. |
| Height: | 360 m and. M. |
| Surface: | 5,37 km ² |
| inhabitants: | 924 (31. December 2005) |
| Website: | www.chancy.ch |
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Chancy is a political municipality in the canton Geneva in Switzerland.
To the municipality the villages Chancy and Passeiry as well as the Weiler Le Cannelet belong. Chancy is in the Champagne in the extreme west Switzerland. Westernmost Swiss boundary stone stands on Gemeindegebiet of Chancy.
Before 1260 the counts of Geneva had the rule rights in Chancy. Subsequently, he handed these to the Savoyern over. Since 1536 Chancy of the city is Geneva subject and accepted the reformation.
Chancy was an important passage place of the road from Geneva to Lyon, because one arrived here at the right Rhôneufer. Until 1424 a ferry took over transport. This was then replaced by a bridge. After the abort of the bridge 1589 the ferry service up to the new building of the bridge 1874, approximately three hundred years later, at the today's location was thus taken up again.
population
| Population trend | |
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| year | inhabitant |
| 1850 | 346 |
| 1900 | 331 |
| 1950 | 296 |
| 1980 | 542 |
| 2000 | 913 |
Web on the left of
- official Website of the municipality Chancy
- article Chancy in the historical encyclopedia of Switzerland
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