Fillinges

Fillinges is a French municipality, located in Haute-Savoie, in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in southern easten of France. It is part of Greater Geneva. The county town of the village is at 572 m above sea level and has a total area of 11,67 km². This means that there in a density of population of 287 inhabitants per km². The village is 7.4 km from Annemasse. Its inhabitants are named Fillingeoises and Fillingeois.

Fillinges
Commune
The church in Fillinges
Coat of arms
Location of Fillinges
Fillinges
Fillinges
Coordinates: 46°09′00″N 6°19′00″E
CountryFrance
RegionAuvergne-Rhône-Alpes
DepartmentHaute-Savoie
ArrondissementSaint-Julien-en-Genevois
CantonBonneville
IntercommunalityCommunauté de communes des Quatre Rivières
Government
 • Mayor (2014–2020) Bruno Forel
Area
1
1 km2 (0.4 sq mi)
Population
 (2017-01-01)[1]
3,413
 • Density3,400/km2 (8,800/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code
74128 /
Elevation1–2 m (3.3–6.6 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

History

The population, having experienced few majors migrations in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Fillinges is an inexhaustible reservoir for genealogists around the world. The Berthet, Ducret, Gavard and many other families find their origins, often with nicknames related to the specific place of residence or the activity of their ancestor: farrier, roadmender, clog maker, armourer, shoemaker, baker etc. (Labori, Socqui etc.). At that time, marriages were often "arranged" in between families and took place nearly all the time between inhabitants of the municipality or hamlets in the vicinity (Arpigny, Marcellaz, Viuz, La Tour, Bonne, Mijouet, Loëx, etc.).

In the nineteenth century, several people are market gardeners and sell (on foot, of course) their production on the markets of Annemasse and Geneva. Others, with the experience of the vineyard will offer their services on farms and vineyards of Crépy, or even the canton of Vaud (Switzerland) - Nyon region in particular. Others will look further: the Lyon surroundings, Paris, even the Americas (North and South). The majority of the Berthet of Geneva have a common ancestor native of Fillinges.

Between 1780 and 1837, Fillinges is part of the province of Carouge, which belongs to the States of Savoie.

The First World War decimated the male population often requiring widows and orphans to leave the town to get closer to cities (domestic work).

Demography

The evolution of the number of inhabitants is known through the censuses of the population carried out in the municipality since 1793. From 2006, the legal populations of the municipalities are published annually by INSEE. The census is now based on an annual collection of information, successively covering all municipal territories over a period of five years. For municipalities with fewer than 10,000 inhabitants, a census survey of the whole population is carried out every five years, while the legal populations of the intermediate years are estimated by interpolation or extrapolation. For the municipality, the first exhaustive census within the framework of the new system was carried out in 2006.

In 2015, the municipality had 3,350 inhabitants, we can notice an increase of 6.25% compared to 2010 (Haute-Savoie: +7.57%, France excluding Mayotte: +2.44%).

See also

References
  1. "Populations légales 2017". INSEE. Retrieved 6 January 2020.


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