Céligny is a municipality in the canton of Geneva, Switzerland. It consists of two small exclaves of the Canton of Geneva surrounded by the Canton of Vaud, near Crans-près-Céligny.
History
Céligny is first mentioned in 1163 as Siliniacum.
Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 11.0% and transportation infrastructure made up 4.9%. Out of the forested land, 15.1% of the total land area is heavily forested and 4.5% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 51.8% is used for growing crops and 11.0% is pastures, while 2.4% is used for orchards or vine crops. it is thus by itself neither an exclave nor an enclave. However, together with this adjacent part of the lake, it does constitute an exclave of the Canton (but still not an enclave).
The municipality of Céligny consists of the sub-sections or villages of Les Bondex, Murat, Céligny - lac, Céligny - village and Les Coudres.
Notable residents
- Royalist journalist and thinker Jacques Mallet du Pan, (1749–1800), was born in Céligny.
- Louis François Senn, (1799–1873), Doctor of Medicine and Surgery, politician. Deputy to the Grand Council (1846–1848) and (1855–1856). Head surgeon at Geneva hospital. Member of the Committee of the Geneva Conservatory of Music (1849–1860). Owner of the Belle-Ferme estate in Céligny. Buried in Founex.
- The notable Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto, (1848–1923), father of the 80/20 theory and Paretos Optimatality, lived in Céligny, earning him the epithet of "hermit of Céligny". He died on 19 August 1923 in Céligny and was buried in the small Céligny cemetery without fanfare on 23 August 1923. The engraving on his tombstone simply states Vil-Fredo Pareto.
- Two notable British residents were the actor Richard Burton, (1925–1984), and novelist Alistair MacLean (1922–1987) who are both buried there. Hjördis Genberg, (1919–1997), a supermodel and widow of David Niven, died in the town in 1997.
Demographics
Céligny has a population () of . , 30.8% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1999–2009) the population has changed at a rate of 5.3%. It has changed at a rate of 3.4% due to migration and at a rate of 5.2% due to births and deaths.
Most of the population () speaks French (487 or 81.3%), with German being second most common (38 or 6.3%) and English being third (36 or 6.0%). Of the population in the municipality 127 or about 21.2% were born in Céligny and lived there in 2000. There were 113 or 18.9% who were born in the same canton, while 176 or 29.4% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 164 or 27.4% were born outside of Switzerland.
, there were 234 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.5 persons per household.
there were 269 apartments in the municipality. The most common apartment size was 4 rooms of which there were 59. There were 15 single room apartments and 111 apartments with five or more rooms. Of these apartments, a total of 223 apartments (82.9% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 33 apartments (12.3%) were seasonally occupied and 13 apartments (4.8%) were empty.
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Heritage sites of national significance
The Domaine De Garengo and the Domaine de l’Élysée are listed as Swiss heritage site of national significance. The entire village of Céligny is part of the Inventory of Swiss Heritage Sites.
Politics
In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the LPS Party which received 25.87% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SVP (18.03%), the Green Party (17.58%) and the SP (14.22%). In the federal election, a total of 167 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 48.4%.
In the 2009 Grand Conseil election, there were a total of 335 registered voters of which 138 (41.2%) voted. The most popular party in the municipality for this election was the Libéral with 29.6% of the ballots. In the canton-wide election they received the highest proportion of votes. The second most popular party was the Les Verts (with 18.5%), they were also second in the canton-wide election, while the third most popular party was the Les Socialistes (with 8.9%), they were fourth in the canton-wide election.
For the 2009 Conseil d'État election, there were a total of 341 registered voters of which 156 (45.7%) voted.
, there were 74 workers who commuted into the municipality and 206 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 2.8 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering. About 21.6% of the workforce coming into Céligny are coming from outside Switzerland. Of the working population, 12.4% used public transportation to get to work, and 64.6% used a private car. During that school year, there was 1 child who was in a pre-kindergarten class. The canton's school system provides two years of non-mandatory kindergarten and requires students to attend six years of primary school, with some of the children attending smaller, specialized classes. In Céligny there were 18 students in kindergarten or primary school and - students were in the special, smaller classes. The secondary school program consists of three lower, obligatory years of schooling, followed by three to five years of optional, advanced schools. There were 18 lower secondary students who attended school in Céligny. There were 19 upper secondary students from the municipality along with 6 students who were in a professional, non-university track program. An additional 15 students attended a private school.
, there were 6 students in Céligny who came from another municipality, while 71 residents attended schools outside the municipality.